Prokeimai means “be first” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4295 — mattah (“beneath”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4295 πρόκειμαι (prokeimai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. prokeimai (prok'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie before the view 2. (figuratively) to be present (to the mind), to stand forth (as an example or reward) It has 16 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include before, mind, lie, and forth. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
prokeimai (prok'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie before the view 2. (figuratively) to be present (to the mind), to stand forth (as an example or reward) [from G4253 and G2749] KJV: be first, set before (forth) Root(s): G4253, G2749
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4295. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to set before
Usage: πρό-κειμαι [in LXX: Exo.39:18 (36), Num.4:7 (פָּנִים), etc. ;] used as pass. of προτίθημι; __1. to be set before one, to be set forth: Heb.6:18 12:1-2, Ju 7. __2. to present oneself, be present: 2Co.8:12 (see Mey., in l).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render prokeimai, 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 G4295 (πρόκειμαι) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he said to them, So let the Lord be with you: as I will send you away, must I send away your store also? see that evil is attached to you.
And he made the set table of pure gold,
and its lamps, lamps for burning, and oil for the light,
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand.
The mother, when two things were set before her, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant,
She beheld her children’s flesh dissolving around the fire; and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forward down to their beards, like masks.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4295.
And he said to them, So let the Lord be with you: as I will send you away, must I send away your store also? see that evil is attached to you.
And he made the set table of pure gold,
and its lamps, lamps for burning, and oil for the light,
And ye shall put on each row pure frankincense and salt; and these things shall be for loaves for a memorial, set forth before the Lord.
And they shall put on the table set forth for showbread a cloth all of purple, and the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the vessels with which one offers drink offerings; and the continual loaves shall be upon it.
And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
And Mordecai was viceroy to King Artaxerxes, and was a great man in the kingdom, and honored by the Jews, and passed his life beloved of all his nation. There was the little fountain, which became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen. nations that combined to destroy the name of the Jews. as for my nation, this is Israel, even they that cried to God, and were delivered: for the Lord delivered his people, and the Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God wrought such signs and great wonders as have not been done among the nations. other nations. day of the month, with an assembly, and joy and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever among his people Israel. which Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy, who was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
About early morning, when the city was now filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace, and called the king to the business in hand.
The mother, when two things were set before her, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant,
She beheld her children’s flesh dissolving around the fire; and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forward down to their beards, like masks.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4295, grouped by book.
Prokeimai (Strong's G4295) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be first". prokeimai (prok'-ei-mai) v. 1. to lie before the view 2. (figuratively) to be present (to the mind), to stand forth (as an example or reward)
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's G4295 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4295 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as before, mind, lie, and forth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4295, with linked reader references where each row is available.