Word Summary
proamartanō: to sin before
Original Word: προαμαρτάνωTransliteration: proamartanō
Phonetic Spelling: (pro-am-ar-tan'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sin before
Meaning: to sin before
Strong's Concordance
sin already, heretofore sin.
From pro and hamartano; to sin previously (to conversion) -- sin already, heretofore sin.
see GREEK pro
see GREEK hamartano
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4258: προαμαρτάνωπροαμαρτάνω: perfect participle
προημαρτηκως;
to sin before:
οἱ προημαρτηκοτες, of those who before receiving baptism had been guilty of the vices especially common muong the Gentiles,
2 Corinthians 12:21;
2 Corinthians 13:2; in this same sense also in
Justin Martyr, Apology i. e. 61;
Clement of Alexandria, strom. 4, 12; cf. Lücke, Conjectanea Exeget. I. (Götting. 1837), p. 14ff (but on the reference of the
προ( see Meyer on 2 Cor. the passages cited (
R. V. heretofore)). (
Herodian, 3, 14, 18 (14 edition, Bekker); ecclesiastical writings.)