What does πρόσφατος (prósphatos) mean in the Bible?
πρόσφατος (prósphatos): Emphasizes newness as fresh or recent rather than brand-new; conveys something newly made or recently introduced.
Greek · G4372
πρόσφατος
New
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πρόσφατοςG4372
Pronunciationprósphatos
What does πρόσφατος (prósphatos) mean in the Bible?
πρόσφατος (prósphatos): Emphasizes newness as fresh or recent rather than brand-new; conveys something newly made or recently introduced.
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How does the BSB render G4372?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include by [the] new (1).
Where does πρόσφατος (prósphatos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Hebrews 10:20. Its strongest book concentrations include Hebrews (1).
Source Word Evidence
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How English Renders Itby [the] new1×Hebrews 10:20
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First aligned rowHebrews 10:20
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Hebrews1
Source forms
πρόσφατον1xprosphatonHebrews 10:20
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular1xHebrews 10:20
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Emphasizes newness as fresh or recent rather than brand-new; conveys something newly made or recently introduced.
Strong'sG4372
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
new
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Emphasizes newness as fresh or recent rather than brand-new; conveys something newly made or recently introduced.
(on the derivation, see Boisacq, see word and cf. -ως), [in LXX: Num.6:3 (לַח), Deu.32:17, Ecc.1:9 (חָדָשׁ), Psa.81:9 (זוּר), Sir.9:10 * ;]
1originally, freshly slain.
2Generally (from Æsch. on), new, fresh, recent: ὁδός, Heb.10:20 (see MM, Exp., xxi; Rutherford, NPhr., 471 f.).
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.
Hebrews 10:20Adjective Accusative Singular Feminine
πρόσφατονprosfaton
recent, new
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 patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
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Accusative · Singular · FeminineHeb 10:201×
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