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προβλέπω

Strong’s: G4265

Associated OET lemmas: προβλέπω

Other spellings: προβλέπομαι

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: βλέπω

Sense 1: to provide for

Semantic entry: 35.35

Semantic domains: Help, Care For

Subdomains: Provide For, Support

Definition: to provide for the needs of others, with the implication of anticipating such a need

Notes: It may be possible to translate προβλέπομαι in RV HEB 11:40 · LV HEB 11:40 · Read together HEB 11:40 as ‘to provide for by foreseeing’ or ‘… by determining in advance’ (see 30.100: προβλέπω / 30.100: προγινώσκω).

Forms: προβλέπομαι[a]

HEB 11:40: RV HEB 11:40 · LV HEB 11:40 · Read together HEB 11:40

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OET-RV HEB 11:40

40 God had planned to have something better so that we and they would be made perfect together.

OET-LV HEB 11:40

40 of_ the _god for us better thing some having _foreseen, in _order _that not apart _from us they _may _be _perfected.

Sense 2: to choose beforehand, to select in advance

Semantic entry: 30.100

Semantic domains: Think

Subdomains: To Choose, To Select, To Prefer

Definition: to choose or select in advance of some other event

Notes: It is also possible to understand προβλέπομαι in RV HEB 11:40 · LV HEB 11:40 · Read together HEB 11:40 as meaning ‘to decide in advance’ (compare the meanings in 30.84: προαιρέω / 30.84: προορίζω) or ‘to provide for’ (35.35: προβλέπω).

Forms: προβλέπομαι[b]

HEB 11:40: RV HEB 11:40 · LV HEB 11:40 · Read together HEB 11:40

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OET-RV HEB 11:40

40 God had planned to have something better so that we and they would be made perfect together.

OET-LV HEB 11:40

40 of_ the _god for us better thing some having _foreseen, in _order _that not apart _from us they _may _be _perfected.