What does ἔμπροσθεν · ἄνθρωπος mean in the Bible?
ἔμπροσθεν · ἄνθρωπος is a Greek phrase meaning "before human beings, publicly before people".
Greek · G1715, G444
ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων
In front of (in place (literally or figuratively) or time) · a human
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ἔμπροσθεν G1715 in front of (in place (literally or figuratively) or time)
Pronunciation émprosthen
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ἄνθρωπος G444 a human
Pronunciation ánthrōpos
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What does ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων (emprosthen tōn anthrōpōn) mean in the Bible?
ἔμπροσθεν · ἄνθρωπος is a Greek phrase meaning "before human beings, publicly before people".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for G1715, G444?
G1715, G444 is connected to 48 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Greek phrase. before human beings, publicly before people
Source Gloss
before human beings, publicly before people
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 48
Matt 5:16 · Matt 5:24 · Matt 6:1 · Matt 6:2 · Matt 7:6 · Matt 10:32 · Matt 10:33 · Matt 11:10 · Matt 11:26 · Matt 17:2 · Matt 18:14 · Matt 23:13 · Matt 25:32 · Matt 26:70 · Matt 27:11 · Matt 27:29 44×
Luke 19:4 · Luke 19:28 · Phil 3:13 · Rev 4:6 4×
Word Origins
ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων is built from these roots:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain