Quick Definition
I predict
Strong's Definition
to be a witness in advance i.e. predict
Derivation: from G4253 (πρό) and G3143 (μαρτύρομαι);
KJV Usage: testify beforehand
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
προμαρτύρομαι;
1. antetestor (in the old lexicons).
2. to testify beforehand, i. e. to make known by prediction: 1Pe_1:11; so also (Basil of Seleucia, 32 a. (Migne vol. lxxxv.) and) by Theodorus Metochita (c. 75, misc., p. 504) a writer of the fourteenth century.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
προμαρτύρομαι promartyromai 1x
pr. to witness or testify beforehand; to declare beforehand, predict, 1Pe_1:11
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† προ -μαρτύρομαι ,
to protest beforehand ( cf. μαρτύρομαι , and V. Hort , in l ): 1Pe_1:11 (elsewhere only in Theod. Met., xiv/AD.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
προμαρτύρομαι [page 543]
summon (God) beforehand to witness, call beforehand to witness. Hort ad 1Pe_1:11 states that this verb is unknown elsewhere except in Theodorus Metochita, about A.D. 1300; but we can now add P Lond IV. 1356 .32 (A.D. 710) προμαρτυρόμενος [αὐτοὺς εἰ ]ς τὸ σχεῖν τὸν φόβον̣ τοῦ Θεοῦ πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
προμαρτύρομαι Dep. "to witness beforehand", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
προ-μαρτύρομαι
to protest beforehand (cf. μαρτύρομαι, and V. Hort, in l): 1Pe.1:11 (elsewhere only in Theod. Met., xiv/AD.).†
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