προλαμβάνω (prolambάnō) — to detect / to surprise / to catch

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: προλαμβάνω; aor.; προέλαβον; προλαμβάνω; aor.pass.subj.; προλημφθῶ

Related lemmas: λαμβάνω

Sense 1: to detect, to surprise, to catch, to be discovered

Semantic entry: 27.33

Semantic domains: Learn

Subdomains: Learn Something Against Someone

Definition: to learn something by surprise

Notes: It is possible that προλαμβάνω in OET GAL 6:1 refers to actual seizing or arresting, but it seems more likely to refer to the fact that someone becomes aware of wrongdoing, and therefore the wrongdoer is surprised by being detected or discovered. It is, of course, also possible to render προλαμβάνω in OET GAL 6:1 as ‘to be involved in.’ Compare Domain 90K.

Show passage in OET: GAL 6:1

OET-RV GAL 6:1

6 Brothers and sisters, if a person has been caught sinning, you spiritual people need to guide the person with a spirit of gentleness, at the same time looking at your own behaviour, in case you yourselves are also tempted.

OET-LV GAL 6:1

6 Brothers, if even a_person may _be _previously _caught in a_certain transgression, you _all, the spiritual ones, be _preparing the such man in a_spirit of _gentleness, looking _out yourself, lest you also may _be _tempted.

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Sense 2: to do in advance, to make before, to undertake ahead of time

Semantic entry: 90.49

Semantic domains: Case

Subdomains: Agent of a Numerable Event

Definition: a marker of an agent relation with numerable events, with the implication of some prior or unexpected time factor

Show passage in OET: MRK 14:8

OET-RV MRK 14:8

8 She has performed the traditional anointing of my body in advance of my burial,

OET-LV MRK 14:8

8 What she _had she _did, she _anticipated to _anoint the body of _me for my burial.

Show passage in OET: CO1 11:21

OET-RV CO1 11:21

21 because during the meal, everyone grabs their own food without considering others. So some people remain hungry while others have too much to drink.

OET-LV CO1 11:21

21 For/Because each his own supper is _taking _first in the time to _eat, and one on _one _hand is _hungering, on _the _other _hand one is _being _drunk.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament