Proteros πρότερος

Proteros (Greek πρότερος, Strong's G4387) is a Greek adjective meaning “before”. It occurs 6 times in 6 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Proteros, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

John

• John 6:62
  What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
• John 7:50
  Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,
• John 9:8
  The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 1:15
  And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.

Galatians

• Galatians 4:13
  Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

Ephesians

• Ephesians 4:22
  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).