Definition

to be beforehand, i.e. anticipate or precede; by extension, to have arrived at

Etymology

apparently a primary verb;

Where the KJV renders it

• (already) attain
• come
• prevent

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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