Strong G4267προγινώσκω

to know/choose

Transliteration
proginōskō
Pronunciation
prog-in-oce'-ko
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G4253 and G1097; to know beforehand that is foresee: - foreknow (ordain) know (before).

Detailed definition

προ-γινώσκω
[in LXX: Wis.6:13 8:8 18:6 *;]
to know beforehand, foreknow: 2Pe.3:17; with accusative of person(s), Act.26:5; of the Divine foreknowledge, Rom.8:29 11:2, 1Pe.1:20.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G4267 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • know2
  • foreknow2
  • before1
  • foreordain1

First verses

  1. Acts 26:5
    Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
  2. Romans 8:29
    For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
  3. Romans 11:2
    God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
  4. 1 Peter 1:20
    Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
  5. 2 Peter 3:17
    Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
προγιγνώσκω,
Ionic dialect and later προγεωργ-γῑνώσκω: future -γνώσομαι: Epic dialect aorist infinitive προγνώμεναι [Refs (“hymnus ad Cererem” 257)]:—know, perceive, learn, or understand beforehand, τι [same place]; τὰ στοιχεῖα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 203d: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1072; π. ὅτι.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 8.12)]:—in Medicine texts, know before being told, declare unaided, τά τε παρεόντα καὶ τὰ προγεγονότα καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα ἔσεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 1; τοὺς καιρούς [prev. author] “Aër.” 2.)]
2 prognosticate, π. χειμῶνα αἱ μέλιτται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 627b10.)]
3 foreknow, λαόν [NT (NT.Rom.11.2, +others)]
4 with genitive, π. τῶν θεῶν learn things in advance of.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 8.7.)]
II judge beforehand, ἐς τὸ μέλλον καλὸν π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.64)]; provide, τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.11:)] —passive, παρὰ τῷ διαιτητῇ προεγνωσμένος ἀδικεῖν judged beforehand to have done wrong, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 29.58, compare “Inscription Délos” 502 A 12(3rd c.BC).)]