What does πρόνοια (prónoia) mean in the Bible?
πρόνοια (prónoia): Deliberate advance planning and protective care, not mere passive knowledge of the future
Greek · G4307
πρόνοια
Foresight
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πρόνοια G4307
Pronunciation prónoia
What does πρόνοια (prónoia) mean in the Bible?
πρόνοια (prónoia): Deliberate advance planning and protective care, not mere passive knowledge of the future
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4307?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include foresight (1), provision (1).
Where does πρόνοια (prónoia) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 24:2. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1), Romans (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It foresight 1× Acts 24:2
provision 1× Romans 13:14
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 24:2
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 2
Acts 1 Romans 1
Source forms
πρόνοιαν 1x pronoian Romans 13:14
προνοίας 1x pronoias Acts 24:2
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Romans 13:14
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 1x Acts 24:2
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Deliberate advance planning and protective care, not mere passive knowledge of the future
Strong's G4307
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
foresight
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Deliberate advance planning and protective care, not mere passive knowledge of the future
(πρόνοος, careful) [in LXX: Dan LXX 6:18 (19) Wis.14:3 17:2, 4Mac.6:1-35 * ;] foresight, forethought: Act.24:3; π. ποιεῖσθαι, with genitive (Dem., 546, 6), make provision for, show care for: Rom.13:14.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 24:2 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
προνοίας, pronoiav
forethought, foresight
Read verse Romans 13:14 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
πρόνοιαν pronoian
forethought, foresight
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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 2 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · Feminine Acts 24:2 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Rom 13:14 1×
Word Origins
πρόνοια is built from this root:
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