πρῶτον
first
‘first’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Degree
- Superlative
- Expresses the greatest degree (“greatest,” “most”).
Every verse where G4412 appears — 57 distinct verses across 16 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 9 verses
- Matthew 5:24 πρῶτον adv supl leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
- Matthew 6:33 πρῶτον adv supl But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Matthew 7:5 πρῶτον adv supl You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.
- Matthew 8:21 πρῶτον adv supl Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."
- Matthew 12:29 πρῶτον adv supl Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.
- Matthew 13:30 πρῶτον adv supl Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"
- Matthew 17:10 πρῶτον adv supl His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
- Matthew 17:27 πρῶτον adv supl But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you."
- Matthew 23:26 πρῶτον adv supl You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.
Mark 7 verses
- Mark 3:27 πρῶτον adv supl But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.
- Mark 4:28 πρῶτον adv supl For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
- Mark 7:27 πρῶτον adv supl But Jesus said to her, "Let the children be filled first, for it is not appropriate to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
- Mark 9:11 πρῶτον adv supl They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
- Mark 9:12 πρῶτον adv supl He said to them, "Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
- Mark 13:10 πρῶτον adv supl The Gospel must first be preached to all the nations.
- Mark 16:9 πρῶτον adv supl Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
Luke 10 verses
- Luke 6:42 πρῶτον adv supl Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.
- Luke 9:59 πρῶτον adv supl He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."
- Luke 9:61 πρῶτον adv supl Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house."
- Luke 10:5 πρῶτον adv supl Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house.'
- Luke 11:38 πρῶτον adv supl When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
- Luke 12:1 πρῶτον adv supl Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Luke 14:28 πρῶτον adv supl For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
- Luke 14:31 πρῶτον adv supl Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
- Luke 17:25 πρῶτον adv supl But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
- Luke 21:9 πρῶτον adv supl When you hear of wars and disturbances, don't be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won't come immediately."
John 4 verses
- John 2:10 πρῶτον adv supl and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"
- John 7:51 πρῶτον adv supl "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
- John 15:18 πρῶτον adv supl If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
- John 18:13 πρῶτον adv supl and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
Acts 5 verses
- Acts 3:26 πρῶτον adv supl God, having raised up his servant, Jesus, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away everyone of you from your wickedness."
- Acts 7:12 πρῶτον adv supl But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
- Acts 13:46 πρῶτον adv supl Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
- Acts 15:14 πρῶτον adv supl Simeon has reported how God first visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
- Acts 26:20 πρῶτόν adv supl but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
Romans 6 verses
- Romans 1:8 Πρῶτον adv supl First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
- Romans 1:16 πρῶτον adv supl For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
- Romans 2:9 πρῶτον adv supl oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the Greek.
- Romans 2:10 πρῶτον adv supl But glory and honor and peace to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
- Romans 3:2 πρῶτον adv supl Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
- Romans 15:24 πρῶτον adv supl whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.
1 Corinthians 3 verses
- 1 Corinthians 11:18 πρῶτον adv supl For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
- 1 Corinthians 12:28 πρῶτον adv supl God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
- 1 Corinthians 15:46 πρῶτον adv supl However that which is spiritual isn't first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Timothy 3 verses
- 1 Timothy 2:1 πρῶτον adv supl I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
- 1 Timothy 3:10 πρῶτον adv supl Let them also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, if they are blameless.
- 1 Timothy 5:4 πρῶτον adv supl But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
2 Timothy 2 verses
Hebrews 1 verse
James 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
2 Peter 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
πρωτον (prōton) is a Greek verb most often rendered “first.” Debuting at Matthew 5:24, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 57 verses — moderately common. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. Related forms include πρωτος, πρωτευω and πρωτοκαθεδρια. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4412 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 57
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 57 distinct verses.
- 16 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 16 of 27 New Testament books.
- #284
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 284 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 57 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 57 distinct verses.
- Gospels 30 verses · 53%
- Pauline corpus 17 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 15 verses · 26%
- Johannine 4 verses · 7%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 7%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 2%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: First 54×, First of all 2×
- American Standard Version: First 50×, First of all 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: First 39×, First of all 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: First 56×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4412 across 61 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4412 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4412 across 48 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4412 across 57 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- first in time or place
- first in rank
- first, at the first
Word origin
Derived from πρωτος (prōtos) (G4413) — first.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4412 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρῶτον prō̂ton | Adverb, Superlative | Matthew 5:24 | 55 |
| Πρῶτον Prō̂ton | Adverb, Superlative | Romans 1:8 | 1 |
| πρῶτόν prō̂tón | Adverb, Superlative | Acts 26:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4412, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- πρωτευω prōteúō G4409 to be first
- πρωτοκαθεδρια prōtokathedría G4410 to sit first
- πρωτοκλισια prōtoklisía G4411 first seat
- πρωτοστατης prōtostátēs G4414 front-rank soldier
- πρωτοτοκος prōtótokos G4416 firstborn
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πρωτον appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 1 book.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Isaiah 8:23 πρῶτον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4412) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Isaiah 8:23 πρῶτον
- Isaiah 11:14 πρῶτον They shall fly down on the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4412) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
