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προοράω

Strong’s: G4308

Associated OET lemmas: προοράω

Notes: It is possible to understand προοράω in RV ACT 2:31 · LV ACT 2:31 · Read together ACT 2:31 as meaning to learn ahead of time or to become aware of ahead of time or even to understand ahead of time. In RV GAL 3:8 · LV GAL 3:8 · Read together GAL 3:8 προοράω is used with the Scripture as the subject, in which case it would be the personified Scripture as knowing beforehand, but it is also possible to understand προοράω in RV GAL 3:8 · LV GAL 3:8 · Read together GAL 3:8 as meaning to cause something to be known ahead of time.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: προοράω; aor.ptc.; προϊδών

Related lemmas: ὁράω

Sense 1: to see beforehand to have seen previously

Semantic entry: 24.5

Semantic domains: Sensory Events and States

Subdomains: See

Definition: to have seen something or someone beforehand or prior to an event in question

Notes: In some languages an adverb such as ‘previously’ must be represented by a clause, for example, ‘before this happened,’ so that one might translate the expression in RV ACT 21:29 · LV ACT 21:29 · Read together ACT 21:29 as ‘for they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian even before this happened.’

ACT 2:25: RV ACT 2:25 · LV ACT 2:25 · Read together ACT 2:25

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OET-RV ACT 2:25

25 As David wrote,
⇔ ‘I foresaw Yahweh always being in front of me. I refuse to be afraid because he’s there on my right.

OET-LV ACT 2:25

25 For/Because Dawid/(Dāvid) is _saying to him:
I _was _foreseeing the master before me through all time, because he _is on the_right of _me, in _order _that I _may_ not _be _shaken.

ACT 21:29: RV ACT 21:29 · LV ACT 21:29 · Read together ACT 21:29

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OET-RV ACT 21:29

29 (They said this because they had previously seen Trofimos from Efesos in the city with Paulos and had assumed that he had brought him into the temple.)

OET-LV ACT 21:29

29 For/Because they _were having _previously _seen Trofimos the from _Efesos in the city with him, whom they _were _thinking that the Paulos brought _in into the temple.

Sense 2: to know beforehand, to know already, to have foreknowledge

Semantic entry: 28.6

Semantic domains: Know

Subdomains: Know

Definition: to know about something prior to some temporal reference point, for example, to know about an event before it happens

ACT 2:31: RV ACT 2:31 · LV ACT 2:31 · Read together ACT 2:31

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OET-RV ACT 2:31

31 he was foretelling the resurrection of the messiah who was neither ‘abandoned in Haidais nor did his body decay.’

OET-LV ACT 2:31

31 Having _foreseen, he _spoke concerning the resurrection of _the chosen _one /messiah that neither was _abandoned into Haidaʸs, nor the flesh of _him saw decay.

GAL 3:8: RV GAL 3:8 · LV GAL 3:8 · Read together GAL 3:8

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OET-RV GAL 3:8

8 The writers of the scriptures foresaw that God was going to make non-Jews guiltless through faith when he promised to Avraham that all the nations would be blessed through him,

OET-LV GAL 3:8

8 And the scripture having _foreseen that the god is _justifying the pagans by faith, he _foretold _the _good _message to_ the _Abraʼam, that All the nations will _be _being _blessed in you.