What does προστάτις (prostátis) mean in the Bible?
προστάτις (prostátis): Female leader who stands before others to protect and advocate for their interests
Greek · G4368
προστάτις
Patroness
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προστάτιςG4368
Pronunciationprostátis
What does προστάτις (prostátis) mean in the Bible?
προστάτις (prostátis): Female leader who stands before others to protect and advocate for their interests
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How does the BSB render G4368?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include a great help (1).
Where does προστάτις (prostátis) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 16:2. Its strongest book concentrations include 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 Ita great help1×Romans 16:2
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowRomans 16:2
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Romans1
Source forms
προστάτις1xprostatisRomans 16:2
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular1xRomans 16:2
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Female leader who stands before others to protect and advocate for their interests
Strong'sG4368
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
patroness
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Female leader who stands before others to protect and advocate for their interests
(fem, of προοτάτης), a patroness, protectress: Rom.16:2.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Romans 16:2Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
προστάτιςprostativ
a female guardian, protector
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 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · FeminineRom 16:21×
Word Origins
προστάτις is built from this root: