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Koine Greek wordlink #157408

SR GNT Rev 4:6 ἔμπροσθεν (emprosthen) ‘living_creatures were being_full of eyes ahead and behind’ Strongs=17150 Lemma=emprosthen
Word role=adverb
Year=96 AD

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Other uses (3) of identical word form ἔμπροσθεν (D-···) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔμπροσθεν’ (D-···) is always and only glossed as ‘ahead’.

Luke 19:4 ‘and having run_ahead ahead he went_uphill in a sycamore_tree’ SR GNT Luke 19:4 word 7

OET-LV: 4 And having _run _ahead ahead, he _went _up in a_sycamore _tree, in _order _that he _may _see him, because he _was _going to _be _passing _through of _that way. (LUK_19:4)

OET-RV: 4 so he ran along ahead of the crowd and climbed a sycamore tree so that he could see Yeshua as he walked past. (LUK 19:4)

Luke 19:28 ‘having said these things he was going ahead going_uphill to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim)’ SR GNT Luke 19:28 word 5

OET-LV: 28 And having _said these things he _was _going ahead going _up to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim). (LUK_19:28)

OET-RV: 28 After he’d said that, Yeshua continued on towards Yerushalem, (LUK 19:28)

Php 3:13 ‘forgetting to the things on_the_other_hand ahead stretching_out’ SR GNT Php 3:13 word 17

OET-LV: 13 Brothers, I myself not am _counting to _have _grasped it, but I _do one thing: the things on _one _hand behind forgetting, on _the _other _hand to _the things ahead stretching _out, (PHP_3:13)

OET-RV: 13 Brothers and sisters, I’m not under the illusion that I’ve already grabbed it, but I do do this one thing: forgetting what’s behind me, and taking long strides towards what’s ahead of me, (PHP 3:13)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘emprosthen’ have 2 different glosses: ‘ahead’, ‘before’.

Greek words (1) other than ἔμπροσθεν (D-···) with a gloss related to ‘ahead’

LUKE 19:30 κατέναντι (katenanti) D-··· Lemma=katenanti ‘be going into the ahead village in which’ SR GNT Luke 19:30 word 6

OET-LV: 30 saying: Be _going into the village ahead, in which entering _in you _all _will _be _finding a_colt having _been _bound, on which no _one ever of _people sat _down, and having _untied it, bring it. (LUK_19:30)

OET-RV: 30 telling them, “Go on to the next village, and when you enter it, you’ll see a colt that’s never been ridden tied up there. Untie it and bring it here. (LUK 19:30)

Key: D=adverb