Strong's Concordance protithémi: to set before, i.e. propose Original Word: προτίθεμαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: protithémi Phonetic Spelling: (prot-ith'-em-ahee) Short Definition: I purpose, design beforehand Definition: I purpose, design beforehand, determine. HELPS Word-studies Cognate: 4388 protíthemai (from 4253 /pró, "towards" and 5087 /títhēmi, "to place, set") – properly, to place before, setting forth in advance to achieve a particular purpose. [4388 /protíthemai ("to purpose") is the root of 4286 /próthesis ("God's providence, eternal purpose), see NAS dictionary and Zodhiates Dictionary.] Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4388: προτίθημιπροτίθημι: 2 aorist middle προεθέμην; (from Homer down); 1. to place before, to set forth (cf. πρό, d. ἆ.); specifically, to set forth to be looked at, expose to view: Exodus 40:4; 4 Macc. 8:11; Aelian v. h. 14, 8; and often in the middle in this sense: ποτήρια ἀργυρεα τέ καί χρυσεα, his own cups, Herodotus 3, 148; to expose to public view, in which sense it is the technical term with profane authors in speaking of the bodies of the dead (to let lie in state) (cf. Passow, under the word, I. 2; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 1); Stallbaum on Plato, Phaedo, p. 115 e.; (Krüger on Thucydides 2, 34, 1)); the middle points to the owner of the thing exposed: so with τινα and a predicate accusative. Romans 3:25 (the middle seems to denote that it was his own Son whom he thus set forth; cf. 8:32). 2. Middle to set before oneself, propose to oneself; to purpose, determine (Plato, Polybius, others): followed by the infinitive Romans 1:13; with an accusative of the thing and ἐν αὐτῷ ((sic); see αὑτοῦ) added, in himself (Winer's Grammar, § 38, 6; (cf. p. 152 (144))), Ephesians 1:9; (others (reading ἐν αὐτῷ with L T Tr WH) render 'in him,' i. e. (probably) Christ). Middle voice from pro and tithemi; to place before, i.e. (for oneself) to exhibit; (to oneself) to propose (determine) -- purpose, set forth. see GREEK pro see GREEK tithemi Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 43883 Occurrences προεθέμην — 1 Occ. προέθετο — 2 Occ. Romans 1:13 V-AIM-1S GRK: ὅτι πολλάκις προεθέμην ἐλθεῖν πρὸς NAS: that often I have planned to come KJV: oftentimes I purposed to come INT: that many times I purposed to come to Romans 3:25 V-AIM-3S Ephesians 1:9 V-AIM-3S |