Strong's #4386: proteron (pronounced prot'-er-on)

neuter of 4387 as adverb (with or without the article); previously:--before, (at the) first, former.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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proteron

1) before, prior

1a) of time, former

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: neuter of G4387 as adverb (with or without the art.)

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

John 6:62: "ascend up where he was before?"
John 7:51: "judge any man, before it hear him, and"
John 9:8: "neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was"
2 Corinthians 1:15: "to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;"
Galatians 4:13: "flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first."
1 Timothy 1:13: "Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but"
Hebrews 4:6: "must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in"
Hebrews 7:27: "daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own"
Hebrews 10:32: "But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated,"
1 Peter 1:14: "not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:"