4387 - proteros

Strong's Concordance

Original word: πρότερος
Transliteration: proteros
Definition (short): former
Definition (full): before

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: cptv. adjective from pro
Definition: before
NASB Translation: before (2), first (2), first time (1), former (3), formerly (2), one (1), previously (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Comparative of pro; prior or previous -- former.

see GREEK pro

KJV: What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
NASB: "What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?
KJV: Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)
NASB: Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of them) said to them,
KJV: The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
NASB: Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, "Is not this the one who used to sit and beg?"
KJV: And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
NASB: In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;
KJV: Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
NASB: but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;