Prographo means “before ordain” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4270 — machcor (“deficiency”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4270 προγράφω (prographo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. prographo (prog-raf'-o) v. 1. to write previously 2. (figuratively) to announce, prescribe It has 5 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include before and afore. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
prographo (prog-raf'-o) v. 1. to write previously 2. (figuratively) to announce, prescribe [from G4253 and G1125] KJV: before ordain, evidently set forth, write (afore, aforetime) Root(s): G4253, G1125
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4270. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to write/designate
Usage: προ-γράφω [in LXX: Dan LXX 3:3 cod., 1Ma.10:36 * ;] __1. to write before: Rom.15:4, Eph.3:3, Ju 4. __2. to write in public, placard, proclaim (Dem., Plut., al.): Gal.3:1 (Lft., in l). __3. = ζωγραφέω, to pourtray, depict: Ga, l.with (Syr. Pesh., Chrys.; Field, Notes, 189; CGT, in l).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render prographo, 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.
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Strong's G4270 (προγράφω) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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4 indexed usages in New Testament.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
I will further, that there be enrolled among the king’s forces about thirty thousand men of the Jews, unto whom pay shall be given, as belongeth to all the king’s forces.
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4270.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I will further, that there be enrolled among the king’s forces about thirty thousand men of the Jews, unto whom pay shall be given, as belongeth to all the king’s forces.
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Prographo (Strong's G4270) is a Greek word most simply glossed "before ordain". prographo (prog-raf'-o) v. 1. to write previously 2. (figuratively) to announce, prescribe
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G4270 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4270 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as before and afore. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4270, with linked reader references where each row is available.