Definition

foremost (in time, place, order or importance)

Etymology

contracted superlative of G4253 (πρό);

Where the KJV renders it

• before
• beginning
• best
• chief(-est)
• first (of all)
• former

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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