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 in the Book of Luke — 10 distinct verses. 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.
Luke
- 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."
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.
