πρωίθεν
from early morning
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where πρωίθεν appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 7 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 18:13 πρωίθεν And it came to pass after the morrow that Moses sat to judge the people, and all the people stood by Moses from morning till evening.
- Exodus 18:14 πρωίθεν And Jothor having seen all that Moses did to the people, says, What is this that you do to the people? therefore sit you alone, and all the people stand by you from morning till evening?
- Ruth 2:7 πρωίθεν And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers: and she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not even a little in the field.
- 2 Samuel 2:27 πρωίθεν And Joab said, As the Lord lives, if you had not spoken, even from the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.
- 2 Samuel 24:15 πρωίθεν So David chose for himself the mortality: and they were the days of wheat harvest; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till noon, and the plague began among the people; and there died of the people from Dan even to Bersabee seventy thousand men.
- Job 4:20 πρωίθεν And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they can’t help themselves.
About this word
About this word
πρωίθεν (prōíthen), “from early morning,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →