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Koine Greek wordlink #63142

SR GNT Yhn 1:15 πρῶτός (prōtos) ‘of me has become because before me he was’ Strongs=44130 Lemma=prōtos
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular

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Other uses (2) of identical word form πρῶτός (S-NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πρῶτός’ (S-NMS) has 2 different glosses: ‘the first’, ‘before’.

Yhn (Jhn) 1:30 ‘me has become because before me he was’ SR GNT Yhn (Jhn) 1:30 word 19

1Tim 1:15 ‘sinners to save of whom the first am I’ SR GNT 1Tim 1:15 word 18

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘prōtos’ have 14 different glosses: ‘the first’, ‘the first place’, ‘the leading’, ‘before’, ‘first’, ‘first covenant’, ‘first day’, ‘first ones’, ‘first room’, ‘first things’, ‘first was’, ‘leader’, ‘leaders’, ‘leading’.

Key: S=substantive adjective NMS=nominative,masculine,singular