Progonos means “parent” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4269 — machcom (“bridle”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4269 πρόγονος (progonos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. progonos (prog'-on-os) n. 1. an ancestor, (grand-)parent [from G4266] It has 11 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include parents and forefathers. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
progonos (prog'-on-os) n. 1. an ancestor, (grand-)parent [from G4266] KJV: forefather, parent Root(s): G4266
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4269. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
parent/ancestor
Usage: πρό-γονος, -ον (προγίνομαι), [in LXX: Est.4:17, Sir.8:4, al. ;] __1. born before. __2. As subst., in pl., οἱ π., ancestors, forefathers: 2Ti.1:3; of living parents (so Plat.), 1Ti.5:4.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render progonos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4269 (πρόγονος) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Moreover he recounted unto them what helps their forefathers had found, and how they were delivered, when under Sennacherib a hundred fourscore and five thousand perished.
Wherefore our mind is, that this nation shall be in rest, and we have determined to restore them their temple, that they may live according to the customs of their forefathers.
Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4269.
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;
Moreover he recounted unto them what helps their forefathers had found, and how they were delivered, when under Sennacherib a hundred fourscore and five thousand perished.
Wherefore our mind is, that this nation shall be in rest, and we have determined to restore them their temple, that they may live according to the customs of their forefathers.
Your parents, or your children, were they here, to these wild beasts a large repast they should have furnished; not these innocent Jews, who me and my forefathers loyally have served.
Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs.
and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity toward us and toward our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge.
then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, about which the entire host of our ancestors was encamped.
nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law.
And we should be disgracing our fathers if we did not obey the law, and take knowledge for our guide.
Jest not with a rude man, Lest thy ancestors be disgraced.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4269, grouped by book.
Progonos (Strong's G4269) is a Greek word most simply glossed "parent". progonos (prog'-on-os) n. 1. an ancestor, (grand-)parent [from G4266]
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G4269 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4269 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as parents and forefathers. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4269, with linked reader references where each row is available.