Strong's Lexicon
G4258 — προαμαρτάνω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4258 |
|---|---|
| Word: | προαμαρτάνω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G4253 and G264 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 2 |
| Transliteration: | proamartano |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | pro-am-ar-tan'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to sin previously (to conversion) |
| KJV Renderings: | sin already, heretofore sin |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
προαμαρτάνω: perfect participle προημαρτηκως; to sin before: οἱ προημαρτηκοτες, of those who before receiving baptism had been guilty of the vices especially common muong the Gentiles, 2Co 12:21; 2Co 13:2; in this same sense also in Justin Martyr, Apology i. e. 61; Clement of Alexandria, strom. 4, 12; cf. Lücke, Conjectanea Exeget. I. (Götting. 1837), p. 14ff (but on the reference of the προ( see Meyer on 2 Cor. the passages cited (R. V. heretofore)). (Herodian, 3, 14, 18 (14 edition, Bekker); ecclesiastical writings.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
προαμαρτάνω (sin already)
2 Corinthians 12:21
- KJV: lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and I shall bewail many which have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed
- GK: μη πάλιν ελθόντα με ταπεινώση ο θεός μου προς υμάς και πενθήσω πολλούς των προημαρτηκότων και μη μετανοησάντων επί τη ακαθαρσία και πορνεία και ασελγεία η έπραξαν
2 Corinthians 13:2
- KJV: I told you before and foretell you as if I were present the second time and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned and to all other that if I come again I will not spare
- GK: προείρηκα και προλέγω ως παρών το δεύτερον και απών νυν γράφω τοις προημαρτηκόσι και τοις λοιποίς πάσιν ότι εάν έλθω εις το πάλιν ου φείσομαι