Strong's #4413: protos (pronounced pro'-tos)
contracted superlative of 4253; foremost (in time, place, order or importance):--before, beginning, best, chief(-est), first (of all), former.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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prōtos
1) first in time or place
1a) in any succession of things or persons
2) first in rank
2a) influence, honour
2b) chief
2c) principal
3) first, at the first
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: contracted superlative of G4253
Citing in TDNT: 6:865, 965
Usage:
This word is used 100 times:
Acts 17:4: "multitude, and of the chief women not a few."
Acts 20:18: "Ye know, from the first day that I came"
Acts 25:2: "high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him"
Acts 26:23: "Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should"
Acts 27:43: "that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:"
Acts 28:7: "same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island,"
Acts 28:17: "three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together:"
Romans 10:19: "Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy"
1 Corinthians 14:30: "to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace."
1 Corinthians 15:3: "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,"
1 Corinthians 15:45: "so it is written, The first man Adam was made a"
1 Corinthians 15:47: "The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second"
Ephesians 6:2: "mother; which is the first commandment with promise;"
Philippians 1:5: "the gospel from the first day until now;"
1 Timothy 1:15: "of whom I am chief."
1 Timothy 1:16: "I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth"
1 Timothy 2:13: "For Adam was first formed, then Eve."
1 Timothy 5:12: "damnation, because they have cast off their first faith."
2 Timothy 2:6: "The husbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits."
2 Timothy 4:16: "At my first answer no man stood with me, but"
Hebrews 8:7: "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no"
Hebrews 8:13: "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and"
Hebrews 9:1: "Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service,"
Hebrews 9:2: "there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the"
Hebrews 9:6: "into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service"
Hebrews 9:8: "was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:"
Hebrews 9:15: "the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called"
Hebrews 9:18: "Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood."
Hebrews 10:9: "O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second."
2 Peter 2:20: "worse with them than the beginning."
1 John 4:19: "him, because he first loved us."
Revelation 1:11: "Alpha and Omega, the first and the"
Revelation 1:17: "I am the first and the last:"
Revelation 2:4: "because thou hast left thy first love."
Revelation 2:5: "and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee"
Revelation 2:8: "These things saith the first and the last, which"
Revelation 2:19: "last to be more than the first."
Revelation 4:1: "heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were"
Revelation 4:7: "And the first beast was like a lion, and the"
Revelation 8:7: "The first angel sounded, and there followed hail"
Revelation 13:12: "the power of the first beast before him, and"
Revelation 13:12: "therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound"
Revelation 16:2: "And the first went, and poured out his vial"
Revelation 20:5: "years were finished. This is the first resurrection."
Revelation 20:6: "part in the first resurrection: on such the"
Revelation 21:1: "earth: for the first heaven and the first"
Revelation 21:1: "heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was"
Revelation 21:4: "any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
Revelation 21:19: "of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second,"
Revelation 22:13: "and the end, the first and the last."
