Strong's #4253: pro (pronounced pro)

a primary preposition; "fore", i.e. in front of, prior (figuratively, superior) to:--above, ago, before, or ever. In the comparative, it retains the same significations.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

́

pro

1) before

Part of Speech: preposition

Relation: a primary preposition

Citing in TDNT: 6:683, 935

Usage:

This word is used 48 times:

 

Matthew 5:12: "they the prophets which were before you."
Matthew 6:8: "what things ye have need of, before ye ask him."
Matthew 8:29: "of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?"
Matthew 11:10: "send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare"
Matthew 24:38: "the days that were before the flood they were eating"
Mark 1:2: "send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare"
Luke 1:76: "of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his"
Luke 2:21: "of the angel before he was conceived in the"
Luke 7:27: "send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare"
Luke 9:52: "And sent messengers before his face: and they went,"
Luke 10:1: "sent them two and two before his face into"
Luke 11:38: "he had not first washed before dinner."
Luke 21:12: "But before all these, they shall lay their hands on"
Luke 22:15: "passover with you before I suffer:"
John 1:48: "and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast"
John 5:7: "I am coming, another steppeth down before me."
John 10:8: "All that ever came before me are thieves and"
John 11:55: "went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the"
John 12:1: "Jesus six days before the passover came to"
John 13:1: "Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew"
John 13:19: "Now I tell you before it come, that, when"
John 17:5: "I had with thee before the world was."
John 17:24: "me: for thou lovedst me"
John 17:24: "me: for thou lovedst me"
Acts 5:23: "keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened,"
Acts 5:36: "For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself"
Acts 12:6: "with two chains: and the keepers before"
Acts 12:6: "with two chains: and the keepers before"
Acts 12:14: "and told how Peter stood before the gate."
Acts 13:24: "When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance"
Acts 14:13: "priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen"
Acts 21:38: "thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and"
Acts 23:15: "concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are"
Romans 16:7: "were in Christ before me."
1 Corinthians 2:7: "wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our"
1 Corinthians 4:5: "Therefore judge nothing before the time, until"
2 Corinthians 12:2: "a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in"
Galatians 1:17: "Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into"
Ephesians 1:4: "us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be"
Colossians 1:17: "And he is before all things, and by him"
2 Timothy 1:9: "in Christ Jesus before the world began,"
2 Timothy 4:21: "Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee and"
Titus 1:2: "God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;"
Hebrews 11:5: "had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased"
James 5:9: "behold, the judge standeth before the door."
James 5:12: "But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither"
1 Peter 1:20: "Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in"
1 Peter 4:8: "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves:"