Strong G4393προφέρω
to bring out
- Transliteration
- propherō
- Pronunciation
- prof-er'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
προφέρω
[in LXX: Pro.10:13 (מָצָא ni.), Tob.9:5, al.;]
to bring forth: with accusative of thing(s), before ἐκ, Luk.6:45.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Pro.10:13 (מָצָא ni.), Tob.9:5, al.;]
to bring forth: with accusative of thing(s), before ἐκ, Luk.6:45.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4393 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- bringeth1
First verses
- Luke 6:45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
προφέρω,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect imperfect προφέρεσκον, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.275, “IG” 14.1747.6 (from Rome):)]future προοίσω: aorist 1 προήνεγκα: aorist 2 προήνεγκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.17)]: Hom.only present; 3rd.pers. singular present subjunctive προφέρῃσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.323)]:—bring before or to one, present, ὡς ὄρνις.. νεοσσοῖσι προφέρῃσι μάστακα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place]; νέκυν Ἀχιλλῆϊ 17.121; μάντεις σφάγια προὔφερον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.69; προενέγκας τὴν ἐπιστολήν “BGU” 1141.11 (1st c.BC),compare “PTeb.” 291.43 (2nd c.AD), etc.)]
2 of words, σφιν ὀνείδεα π. cast reproaches in their teeth, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.251)]; π. τινί throw in one's teeth, bring forward, allege, especially in the way of reproach or objection, μή μοι δῶρ᾽ ἐρατὰ πρόφερε χρυσέης Ἀφροδίτης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3.64, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.3, 8.61, 125, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.100; π. τοὔνομα τοῦθ᾽ ὡς ὄνειδος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.190; δικαιώσεις ἀλλήλοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.17)]: absolutely, reproach (followed by words quoted), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.120)]:—also in middle, τὴν ἐν Δωδώνῃ ἀσέβειαν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.11.2; εἶναι βασιλικὴν γῆν “PTeb.” 81.17 (2nd c.BC),compare “PAmh.” 2.30.7 (2nd c.BC), etc.)]
3 utter, μῦθον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 189 (_anapaest meter_))]:—middle, ζῷα ἀνθρωπίνας π. φωνάς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.73, compare 15, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 7.218c.)]
3.b π. Αἴγιναν πάτραν proclaim it as their country, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).43)]; π. εἰς μέσον or εἰς τὸ μ. publish, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 812c, 936a:)] —middle, ὁπόσσω κα προφέρηται for whatever sum [the priest] lays down, [Refs (Berl.Sitzb. 1927.169 (from Cyrene).)]
4 bring forward, cite, μὴ π. τὴν τότε γενομένην ξυνωμοσίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.64, compare 5.26 (_passive_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 259d)]; προφέρων Ἄρτεμιν putting forward her authority, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 201 (Lyric poetry))]; π. τὰς ἐπονειδίστους τῶν ἡδονῶν citing by way of example, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1173b21, compare “Pol.” 1288a20)]:—also in middle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 57a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 14.6)]; ἀναμνήσεως χάριν π. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.66.10)]; αὐτοῦ -ομένου τὴν περὶ τὸ σῶμα γεγενημένην ἀσθένειαν pleading.., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“OGI” 244.10 (Daphne, 2nd c.BC))]; cite, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 21)]; recite, ποιήματα [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 14.109, compare 16.92; ἀριθμοὺς τῶν ἀρχαίων ποιητᾶν “SIG” 703.7, compare 660.3 (Delph., 2nd c.BC).)]
5 of an oracle, propose as a task, τοῖσι Θηραίοισι προέφερε ἡ Πυθίη τὴν ἐς Λιβύην ἀποικίην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.151; ἡ Πυθίη προφέρει σφι, τὰς Ἀθήνας ἐλευθεροῦν [prev. author] 5.63:)] —passive, δόμοισι προὐνεχθέντος ἐν χρηστηρίοις (genitive absolutely) it having been commanded to do so, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 964.)]
II bring forward, display, π. κρατερὸν μένος [LXX+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.479; σπουδήν LXX “Si.Prol.” 22)]; ἔριδα π. show, i.e. engage in, rivalry, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.92; ἀντιώσεσθαι πόλεμον προφέρων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.γ:)] —middle, ξεινοδόκῳ ἔριδα προφέρεσθαι challenge one's host to rivalry, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.210, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.7.)]
II.2 bring out, ἐντεῦθεν ὥσπερ ἐκ ταμιείου π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.44)]; ἤνοιξα τὸν τόπον τῶν οἰναρίων καὶ προενήνεχα (sic) οἴνου κεράμια νά [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1288.12 (4th c.AD))]; ἠξίωσαν προενεχθῆναι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ δεσμωτηρίου that he should be produced.., [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“BGU” 1024 vii 4 (4th c.AD).)]
III carry off, sweep away, of a storm, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.346, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.64)]; of death, π. σώματα τέκνων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1111 (_anapaest meter_).)]
IV put or move forward, πόδα [Refs ([prev. author] “Tr.” 1332 (Lyric poetry))]; carry forward, pass on, σκυταλίδα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 22.27)]: hence, promote, further, ἠώς τοι προφέρει μὲν ὁδοῦ, π. δὲ καὶ ἔργου furthers one on the road and in the work, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 579: without _genitive_, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.344 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor))]; μέγα π. εἴς τι conduce, help to wards gaining an object, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93)]; μεγάλη τύχη πρὸς πάντα π. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 78.38)]:—passive, move forward, προενεχθέντος τοῦ σώματος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 711a29.)]
IV.2 intransitive, surpass, excel another, δόξας ἔργα πολὺ προφέρει [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 161, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 12.5:)] with dative _of things_, εἴρια καλλονῇ τε προφέροντα καὶ ἀρετῇ τῶν ἀπὸ τῶν ὀΐων (tree) wool surpassing sheep's wool in beauty and goodness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.106; πλούτῳ καὶ εἴδεϊ προφέρων Ἀθηναίων [prev. author] 6.127)]; ἡ Νάξος εὐδαιμονίῃ τῶν νήσων π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.28; π. εἰς εὐτυχίαν τινῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1092 (_anapaest meter_): _absolutely_, ἐν πάντα νόμον εὐθύγλωσσος ἀνὴρ π. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.86)]; πλούτῳ καὶ ἐξουσία, εὐψυχία, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.123, 2.89, compare 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.275; ἔν τινι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 77.11.)]
V bring forth children, [Refs (“IG” 14.1747.6 (from Rome).)]
VI carry before, λύχνον τινί [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 39.31)]:—passive, τὸ ῥόπαλον προεφέρετο αὐτοῦ [Refs ([prev. author] 72.17.)]
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect imperfect προφέρεσκον, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.275, “IG” 14.1747.6 (from Rome):)]future προοίσω: aorist 1 προήνεγκα: aorist 2 προήνεγκον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.17)]: Hom.only present; 3rd.pers. singular present subjunctive προφέρῃσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.323)]:—bring before or to one, present, ὡς ὄρνις.. νεοσσοῖσι προφέρῃσι μάστακα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place]; νέκυν Ἀχιλλῆϊ 17.121; μάντεις σφάγια προὔφερον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.69; προενέγκας τὴν ἐπιστολήν “BGU” 1141.11 (1st c.BC),compare “PTeb.” 291.43 (2nd c.AD), etc.)]
2 of words, σφιν ὀνείδεα π. cast reproaches in their teeth, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.251)]; π. τινί throw in one's teeth, bring forward, allege, especially in the way of reproach or objection, μή μοι δῶρ᾽ ἐρατὰ πρόφερε χρυσέης Ἀφροδίτης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3.64, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.3, 8.61, 125, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.100; π. τοὔνομα τοῦθ᾽ ὡς ὄνειδος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.190; δικαιώσεις ἀλλήλοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.17)]: absolutely, reproach (followed by words quoted), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.120)]:—also in middle, τὴν ἐν Δωδώνῃ ἀσέβειαν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.11.2; εἶναι βασιλικὴν γῆν “PTeb.” 81.17 (2nd c.BC),compare “PAmh.” 2.30.7 (2nd c.BC), etc.)]
3 utter, μῦθον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 189 (_anapaest meter_))]:—middle, ζῷα ἀνθρωπίνας π. φωνάς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.73, compare 15, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 7.218c.)]
3.b π. Αἴγιναν πάτραν proclaim it as their country, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 5(4).43)]; π. εἰς μέσον or εἰς τὸ μ. publish, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 812c, 936a:)] —middle, ὁπόσσω κα προφέρηται for whatever sum [the priest] lays down, [Refs (Berl.Sitzb. 1927.169 (from Cyrene).)]
4 bring forward, cite, μὴ π. τὴν τότε γενομένην ξυνωμοσίαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.64, compare 5.26 (_passive_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 259d)]; προφέρων Ἄρτεμιν putting forward her authority, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 201 (Lyric poetry))]; π. τὰς ἐπονειδίστους τῶν ἡδονῶν citing by way of example, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1173b21, compare “Pol.” 1288a20)]:—also in middle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 57a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 14.6)]; ἀναμνήσεως χάριν π. [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.66.10)]; αὐτοῦ -ομένου τὴν περὶ τὸ σῶμα γεγενημένην ἀσθένειαν pleading.., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“OGI” 244.10 (Daphne, 2nd c.BC))]; cite, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 21)]; recite, ποιήματα [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 14.109, compare 16.92; ἀριθμοὺς τῶν ἀρχαίων ποιητᾶν “SIG” 703.7, compare 660.3 (Delph., 2nd c.BC).)]
5 of an oracle, propose as a task, τοῖσι Θηραίοισι προέφερε ἡ Πυθίη τὴν ἐς Λιβύην ἀποικίην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.151; ἡ Πυθίη προφέρει σφι, τὰς Ἀθήνας ἐλευθεροῦν [prev. author] 5.63:)] —passive, δόμοισι προὐνεχθέντος ἐν χρηστηρίοις (genitive absolutely) it having been commanded to do so, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 964.)]
II bring forward, display, π. κρατερὸν μένος [LXX+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.479; σπουδήν LXX “Si.Prol.” 22)]; ἔριδα π. show, i.e. engage in, rivalry, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.92; ἀντιώσεσθαι πόλεμον προφέρων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.9.γ:)] —middle, ξεινοδόκῳ ἔριδα προφέρεσθαι challenge one's host to rivalry, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.210, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.7.)]
II.2 bring out, ἐντεῦθεν ὥσπερ ἐκ ταμιείου π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.44)]; ἤνοιξα τὸν τόπον τῶν οἰναρίων καὶ προενήνεχα (sic) οἴνου κεράμια νά [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 1288.12 (4th c.AD))]; ἠξίωσαν προενεχθῆναι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ δεσμωτηρίου that he should be produced.., [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“BGU” 1024 vii 4 (4th c.AD).)]
III carry off, sweep away, of a storm, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.346, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.64)]; of death, π. σώματα τέκνων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1111 (_anapaest meter_).)]
IV put or move forward, πόδα [Refs ([prev. author] “Tr.” 1332 (Lyric poetry))]; carry forward, pass on, σκυταλίδα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 22.27)]: hence, promote, further, ἠώς τοι προφέρει μὲν ὁδοῦ, π. δὲ καὶ ἔργου furthers one on the road and in the work, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 579: without _genitive_, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.344 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor))]; μέγα π. εἴς τι conduce, help to wards gaining an object, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93)]; μεγάλη τύχη πρὸς πάντα π. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 78.38)]:—passive, move forward, προενεχθέντος τοῦ σώματος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 711a29.)]
IV.2 intransitive, surpass, excel another, δόξας ἔργα πολὺ προφέρει [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 161, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 12.5:)] with dative _of things_, εἴρια καλλονῇ τε προφέροντα καὶ ἀρετῇ τῶν ἀπὸ τῶν ὀΐων (tree) wool surpassing sheep's wool in beauty and goodness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.106; πλούτῳ καὶ εἴδεϊ προφέρων Ἀθηναίων [prev. author] 6.127)]; ἡ Νάξος εὐδαιμονίῃ τῶν νήσων π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.28; π. εἰς εὐτυχίαν τινῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1092 (_anapaest meter_): _absolutely_, ἐν πάντα νόμον εὐθύγλωσσος ἀνὴρ π. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.86)]; πλούτῳ καὶ ἐξουσία, εὐψυχία, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.123, 2.89, compare 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 4.275; ἔν τινι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 77.11.)]
V bring forth children, [Refs (“IG” 14.1747.6 (from Rome).)]
VI carry before, λύχνον τινί [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 39.31)]:—passive, τὸ ῥόπαλον προεφέρετο αὐτοῦ [Refs ([prev. author] 72.17.)]