Prophasis means “show” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4392 — male (“multitude”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4392 πρόφασις (prophasis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. prophasis (prof'-as-is) n. 1. an outward showing, i.e. pretext [from a compound of G4253 and G5316] It has 12 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include pretence, colour, and cloke. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
prophasis (prof'-as-is) n. 1. an outward showing, i.e. pretext [from a compound of G4253 and G5316] KJV: cloke, colour, pretence, show Root(s): G4253, G5316
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4392. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
pretense
Usage: πρό-φασις, -εως, ἡ (φήμι), [in LXX: Psa.141:4 (עֲלִילָה), ??עֲלִילָה), ??Dan.6:4-5(5-6) (עִלָּה) Pro.18:1, Hos.10:4 * ;] a pretence, pretext: Mat.23:1 (WM, R, txt., om.), Mrk.12:40, Luk.20:47 Jhn.15:22, Act.27:30, Php.1:18, 1Th.2:5.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render prophasis, 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 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 G4392 (πρόφασις) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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7 indexed usages in New Testament.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Incline not my heart to evil things, To employ pretexts for sins, With men who work iniquity: And let me not unite with their choice ones.
A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses; But at all times he will be liable to reproach.
Then the governors and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel; but they found against him no occasion, nor trespass, nor error, because he was faithful.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4392.
Incline not my heart to evil things, To employ pretexts for sins, With men who work iniquity: And let me not unite with their choice ones.
A man who wishes to separate from friends seeks excuses; But at all times he will be liable to reproach.
Then the governors and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel; but they found against him no occasion, nor trespass, nor error, because he was faithful.
And the governors said, We shall not find occasion against Daniel, except in the ordinances of his God.
and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4392, grouped by book.
Prophasis (Strong's G4392) is a Greek word most simply glossed "show". prophasis (prof'-as-is) n. 1. an outward showing, i.e. pretext [from a compound of G4253 and G5316]
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G4392 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4392 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pretence, colour, and cloke. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G4392, with linked reader references where each row is available.