Proskairos means “endure for a time” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4340 — meythar (“cord”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4340 πρόσκαιρος (proskairos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. proskairos (pros'-kai-ros) adj. 1. for the occasion only, i.e. temporary [from G4314 and G2540] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include dureth, endure, and season. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
proskairos (pros'-kai-ros) adj. 1. for the occasion only, i.e. temporary [from G4314 and G2540] KJV: dur-(eth) for awhile, endure for a time, for a season, temporal Root(s): G4314, G2540
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4340. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
temporary
Usage: πρόσ-καιρος, -ον [in LXX: 4Ma.15:2 4Mac 15:8 4Mac 15:23 * ;] __1. in season. __2. for a season, temporary, transient: 2Co.4:18, Heb.11:25; of plants, short-lived: Mat.13:21, Mrk.4:17.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render proskairos, 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 New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old 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 G4340 (πρόσκαιρος) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon the altar.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
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,
yet, through fear of God, she neglected the temporary salvation of her children.
But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4340.
And Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon the altar.
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
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,
yet, through fear of God, she neglected the temporary salvation of her children.
But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4340, grouped by book.
Proskairos (Strong's G4340) is a Greek word most simply glossed "endure for a time". proskairos (pros'-kai-ros) adj. 1. for the occasion only, i.e. temporary [from G4314 and G2540]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G4340 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4340 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 dureth, endure, and season. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4340, with linked reader references where each row is available.