Strong G4301προλαμβάνω
to take beforehand
- Transliteration
- prolambanō
- Pronunciation
- prol-am-ban'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
προ-λαμβάνω
[in LXX: Wis.17:11 א2, Wis.17:17 א2B *;]
1. to take beforehand: with accusative, 1Co.11:21 (but see infr.).
2. to be beforehand, anticipate (in cl., with accusative, genitive or dative): with inf. (= cl. φθάνω, see Bl., § 69, 4; Swete, in l), Mrk.14:8.
3. to overtake, surprise: pass., Gal.6:1 (on the virtual disappearance of the temporal force of the preposition in this compound here and perhaps also in 1Co, l.with, see MM, xxi).†
(AS)
[in LXX: Wis.17:11 א2, Wis.17:17 א2B *;]
1. to take beforehand: with accusative, 1Co.11:21 (but see infr.).
2. to be beforehand, anticipate (in cl., with accusative, genitive or dative): with inf. (= cl. φθάνω, see Bl., § 69, 4; Swete, in l), Mrk.14:8.
3. to overtake, surprise: pass., Gal.6:1 (on the virtual disappearance of the temporal force of the preposition in this compound here and perhaps also in 1Co, l.with, see MM, xxi).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4301 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- aforehand1
- overtaken1
- taketh1
First verses
- Mark 14:8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
- 1 Corinthians 11:21For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
- Galatians 6:1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
προλαμβάνω,
future -λήψομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.16:)]aorist προὔλαβον:—passive, see below[Refs (1.5)]:— take or receive before, τὴν πόλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 26.9 codices; τὰ χωρία καὶ λιμένας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.9)]; ἀργύριον π. receive money in advance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 50.14, 35; τὰ ἐφόδια 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.172; τρία τάλαντα παρά τινος [prev. author] 2.166; ἅπαντα ἡμῶν τὰ χωρία 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.16, etc.; also π. χάριν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 914 (Lyric poetry))]; μισθὸν τῆς ἀγγελίας for the message, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 37; γάλα μετὰ μέλιτος “IG” 42(1).126.15 (Epid., 2nd c.AD))]; π. τὴν ἡλικίαν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.162)]; π. τὴν αὔξησιν begin their growth before, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.4)]:—passive, to be contained in advance, ἐν τῷ ὄντι ἄρα ζωὴ προείληπται καὶ ὁ νοῦς [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 103.)]
2 take or seize beforehand, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.142; τὴν ἀρχήν 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 40.24; ὅσα τῆς πόλεως π. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.26)]; τοῦτο π., ὅπως σώσομεν provide that.., [Refs ([prev. author] 3.2: with)]participle, προλαβὼν κατεγνωκότας ὑμᾶς having first procured your vote of condemnation, [Refs ([prev. author] 24.77)]:—passive, σῶμα προειλημμένον ὑπὸ νόσου [Refs (“Corpus Hermeticum” 12.3.)]
2.b get or take as a start, προειλήφασι πολὺν χρόνον have had a long start, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 60.5 (3rd c.BC))]; π. τῆς νυκτὸς ὁπόσον ἂν δυναίμην [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 1.)]
3 take in preference, τι πρό τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1141.)]
4 take away or off before, ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων προὔλαβον μόγις πόδα, μὴ θανεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1253.)]
5 assume in advance, τὴν ὁλότητα προλαβὼν ἐγέννησεν ἀπ᾽ αὐτῆς τὴν παντότητα [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 253)]; προειλήφθω.. δισχιλίων σταδίων τὸ βάθος [εἶναι] [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 34.6.7.)]
II to be beforehand with, anticipate,
II.1 with accusative person, get the start of, τὰς κύνας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.19, see below 3; π. τῷ λόγῳ τινάς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 29)]; βραχὺν χρόνον π. ἡμᾶς, i.e. in dying, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.117e; π. τῇ ῥιζώσει τοὺς χειμῶνας 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.3, compare “CP” 3.24.3: with _genitive_ _person_, προλαβών μου ὥστε πρότερος λέγειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.6)]; ἵνα μὴ -λημφθῶμεν (i.e. by death) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 2.)]
II.2 with accusative of things, π. γόους, μαντεύματα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 339 (Lyric poetry), “Ion” 407; τὸν καιρόν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.14.12, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 34, etc.; τὸν ὄρθρον 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 15)]; of mental anticipation, π. ὡς οὕτως ἔχον πρὶν γινόμενον οὕτως ἰδεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 765a28; τὰ συμβησόμενα ταῖς ἐννοίαις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.112.7, compare 3.1.7; τὰ πολλὰ εἰκασίᾳ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 8; π. ὅτι.. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.102e, etc.)]
II.3 with genitive spatii, π. τῆς ὁδοῦ get a start on the way, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.105; πολὺ τῆς ὁδοῦ π. 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 7.29.2 (but just above, π. ὡς πλείστην ὁδὸν τοὺς διώξοντας); π. ῥᾳδίως τῆς φυγῆς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.33)]; π. τῆς διώξεως get a start of the pursuers, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 16.94: _metaphorically_, μύθου προλαβοῦσα)] speaking first, Philicus in [Refs (“Stud.Ital.” 9.44, compare 46.)]
II.3.b generally, π. τῶν κηρύκων anticipate them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408b24)]; τοῦ χρόνου π. precede in point of time, [Refs ([prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1050b5.)]
II.4 with dative modi, π. τῷ δρόμῳ get a start in running, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 7.7; τῇ διανοίᾳ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 660; τῇ φυγῇ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 20, “Cic.” 47.)]
II.5 with infinitive, προέλαβε μυρίσαι [NT (NT.Mark.14.8.)]
II.6 detect, ἐν παραπτώματι [NT (NT.Gal.6.1 (_passive_).)]
II.7 anticipate, τι τῶν μελλόντων [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.620; τὸ μέλλον τοῖς λογισμοῖς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 54.2.)]
II.8 absolutely, προὔλαβε πολλῷ was far ahead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.80, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.19, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.31, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 31.15.8)]; gain an advantage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.15.)]
II.8.b anticipate the event, prejudge, ἐπειδὰν ἅπαντ᾽ ἀκούσητε κρίνατε, μὴ πρότερον προλαμβάνετε [Refs ([prev. author] 4.14; οἱ νόμοι προλαβόντες ἐπιμέλονται ὅπως..)]by anticipation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.3)]; come before the time, opposed to ὑστερίζειν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.353)]; of corn-buyers, buy earlier, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 976.49 (Samos, 2nd c.BC))]:— middle, προλαμβάνου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 701:)] —passive, τὸ προειλημμένον that which is prejudged, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ τῶν στάσεων” 1.)]
II.8.c precede, go before, ὁ προλαβὼν βίος his previous life,[Refs 4th c.BC+ (argument 2 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.3; τὰ προλαβόντα)]what precedes, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “de Bello Vandalico” 2.16)]; ἡ προλαβοῦσα τράπεζα the preceding meal, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 57.24)]; also τῶν προλαβόντων τἢν μνήμην the memory of the past, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus Gaz. “Pan.” p.495 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
III repeat from the origin, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.16; μικρὸν π. [prev. author] 16.24.)]
IV Philos., form a preconception (compare πρόληψις), prejudge, οἷα προειλήφαμεν [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3.13, compare “Sign.” 22)]:—middle, [Refs ([prev. author] “D.” 1.13)]:— passive, [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Oec.” p.57 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]
future -λήψομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.16:)]aorist προὔλαβον:—passive, see below[Refs (1.5)]:— take or receive before, τὴν πόλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 26.9 codices; τὰ χωρία καὶ λιμένας 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.9)]; ἀργύριον π. receive money in advance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 50.14, 35; τὰ ἐφόδια 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.172; τρία τάλαντα παρά τινος [prev. author] 2.166; ἅπαντα ἡμῶν τὰ χωρία 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.16, etc.; also π. χάριν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 914 (Lyric poetry))]; μισθὸν τῆς ἀγγελίας for the message, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 37; γάλα μετὰ μέλιτος “IG” 42(1).126.15 (Epid., 2nd c.AD))]; π. τὴν ἡλικίαν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.162)]; π. τὴν αὔξησιν begin their growth before, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.4)]:—passive, to be contained in advance, ἐν τῷ ὄντι ἄρα ζωὴ προείληπται καὶ ὁ νοῦς [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 103.)]
2 take or seize beforehand, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.142; τὴν ἀρχήν 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 40.24; ὅσα τῆς πόλεως π. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.26)]; τοῦτο π., ὅπως σώσομεν provide that.., [Refs ([prev. author] 3.2: with)]participle, προλαβὼν κατεγνωκότας ὑμᾶς having first procured your vote of condemnation, [Refs ([prev. author] 24.77)]:—passive, σῶμα προειλημμένον ὑπὸ νόσου [Refs (“Corpus Hermeticum” 12.3.)]
2.b get or take as a start, προειλήφασι πολὺν χρόνον have had a long start, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 60.5 (3rd c.BC))]; π. τῆς νυκτὸς ὁπόσον ἂν δυναίμην [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 1.)]
3 take in preference, τι πρό τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1141.)]
4 take away or off before, ἐκ γὰρ οἴκων προὔλαβον μόγις πόδα, μὴ θανεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1253.)]
5 assume in advance, τὴν ὁλότητα προλαβὼν ἐγέννησεν ἀπ᾽ αὐτῆς τὴν παντότητα [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 253)]; προειλήφθω.. δισχιλίων σταδίων τὸ βάθος [εἶναι] [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 34.6.7.)]
II to be beforehand with, anticipate,
II.1 with accusative person, get the start of, τὰς κύνας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.19, see below 3; π. τῷ λόγῳ τινάς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 29)]; βραχὺν χρόνον π. ἡμᾶς, i.e. in dying, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.117e; π. τῇ ῥιζώσει τοὺς χειμῶνας 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.3, compare “CP” 3.24.3: with _genitive_ _person_, προλαβών μου ὥστε πρότερος λέγειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.6)]; ἵνα μὴ -λημφθῶμεν (i.e. by death) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Diogenes Oenoandensis Epicureus 2.)]
II.2 with accusative of things, π. γόους, μαντεύματα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 339 (Lyric poetry), “Ion” 407; τὸν καιρόν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.14.12, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 34, etc.; τὸν ὄρθρον 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 15)]; of mental anticipation, π. ὡς οὕτως ἔχον πρὶν γινόμενον οὕτως ἰδεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 765a28; τὰ συμβησόμενα ταῖς ἐννοίαις 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.112.7, compare 3.1.7; τὰ πολλὰ εἰκασίᾳ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 8; π. ὅτι.. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.102e, etc.)]
II.3 with genitive spatii, π. τῆς ὁδοῦ get a start on the way, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.105; πολὺ τῆς ὁδοῦ π. 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 7.29.2 (but just above, π. ὡς πλείστην ὁδὸν τοὺς διώξοντας); π. ῥᾳδίως τῆς φυγῆς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.33)]; π. τῆς διώξεως get a start of the pursuers, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 16.94: _metaphorically_, μύθου προλαβοῦσα)] speaking first, Philicus in [Refs (“Stud.Ital.” 9.44, compare 46.)]
II.3.b generally, π. τῶν κηρύκων anticipate them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408b24)]; τοῦ χρόνου π. precede in point of time, [Refs ([prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1050b5.)]
II.4 with dative modi, π. τῷ δρόμῳ get a start in running, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 7.7; τῇ διανοίᾳ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 660; τῇ φυγῇ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 20, “Cic.” 47.)]
II.5 with infinitive, προέλαβε μυρίσαι [NT (NT.Mark.14.8.)]
II.6 detect, ἐν παραπτώματι [NT (NT.Gal.6.1 (_passive_).)]
II.7 anticipate, τι τῶν μελλόντων [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.620; τὸ μέλλον τοῖς λογισμοῖς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 54.2.)]
II.8 absolutely, προὔλαβε πολλῷ was far ahead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.80, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.19, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.31, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 31.15.8)]; gain an advantage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.15.)]
II.8.b anticipate the event, prejudge, ἐπειδὰν ἅπαντ᾽ ἀκούσητε κρίνατε, μὴ πρότερον προλαμβάνετε [Refs ([prev. author] 4.14; οἱ νόμοι προλαβόντες ἐπιμέλονται ὅπως..)]by anticipation, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.3)]; come before the time, opposed to ὑστερίζειν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.353)]; of corn-buyers, buy earlier, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 976.49 (Samos, 2nd c.BC))]:— middle, προλαμβάνου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 701:)] —passive, τὸ προειλημμένον that which is prejudged, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ τῶν στάσεων” 1.)]
II.8.c precede, go before, ὁ προλαβὼν βίος his previous life,[Refs 4th c.BC+ (argument 2 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.3; τὰ προλαβόντα)]what precedes, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “de Bello Vandalico” 2.16)]; ἡ προλαβοῦσα τράπεζα the preceding meal, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 57.24)]; also τῶν προλαβόντων τἢν μνήμην the memory of the past, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus Gaz. “Pan.” p.495 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
III repeat from the origin, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.16; μικρὸν π. [prev. author] 16.24.)]
IV Philos., form a preconception (compare πρόληψις), prejudge, οἷα προειλήφαμεν [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3.13, compare “Sign.” 22)]:—middle, [Refs ([prev. author] “D.” 1.13)]:— passive, [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Oec.” p.57 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]