Protithemai means “purpose” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4388 — maktesh (“mortar”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4388 προτίθεμαι (protithemai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. protithemai (prot-ith'-em-ai) v. 1. to place before 2. (for oneself) to exhibit It has 15 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include set. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
protithemai (prot-ith'-em-ai) v. 1. to place before 2. (for oneself) to exhibit 3. (to oneself) to propose (determine) [middle voice from G4253 and G5087] KJV: purpose, set forth Root(s): G4253, G5087
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4388. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to plan/present
Usage: προ-τίθημι [in LXX: Exo.40:4, 23, Lev.24:8 (עָרַךְ) Psa.54:3 (שׂוּם), etc. ;] __1. to set before, set forth publicly; so also in mid.: with accusative of person(s), Rom.3:25 (for a suggested alt, rend., see MM, xxii). __2. Mid., to set before oneself, propose, purpose: with inf., Rom.1:13; with accusative of thing(s), Eph.1:9.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render protithemai, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 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 G4388 (προτίθεμαι) appears 12 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And one cake made with oil, and one cake from the basket of unleavened bread set forth before the Lord.
and thou shalt bring in the table and shalt set forth that which is to be set forth on it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick and place its lamps on it.
And he put on it the showbread before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.
Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was entered with a small company into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in:
His purpose was to inflict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraven upon it:
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4388.
And one cake made with oil, and one cake from the basket of unleavened bread set forth before the Lord.
and thou shalt bring in the table and shalt set forth that which is to be set forth on it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick and place its lamps on it.
And he put on it the showbread before the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
On the Sabbath day they shall be set forth before the Lord continually before the children of Israel, for an everlasting covenant.
For strangers have risen up against me, And mighty men have sought my life: They have not set God before them. Pause.
O God, transgressors have risen up against me, And an assembly of violent men have sought my life; And have not set thee before them.
I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors.
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
and burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.
Which when the priests of Nanea had set forth, and he was entered with a small company into the compass of the temple, they shut the temple as soon as Antiochus was come in:
His purpose was to inflict a public stigma upon our race; wherefore he erected a pillar at the tower porch, and caused the following inscription to be engraven upon it:
Fear, young men, and the Righteousness which ye worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4388, grouped by book.
Protithemai (Strong's G4388) is a Greek word most simply glossed "purpose". protithemai (prot-ith'-em-ai) v. 1. to place before 2. (for oneself) to exhibit
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's G4388 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4388 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 set. 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 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4388, with linked reader references where each row is available.