Word Summary
prothesmia: appointed beforehand
Original Word: προθεσμίαTransliteration: prothesmia
Phonetic Spelling: (proth-es'-mee-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: appointed beforehand
Meaning: appointed beforehand
Strong's Concordance
appointed time
From pro and a derivative of tithemi; fixed beforehand, i.e. (feminine with hemera implied) a designated day -- time appointed.
see GREEK pro
see GREEK tithemi
see GREEK hemera
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4287: προθέσμιοςπροθέσμιος,
προθεσμία,
προθεσμιον (
πρό (which see in d.
β.) and
θεσμός fixed, appointed),
set beforehand, appointed or determined beforehand, pre-arranged (
Lucian, Nigr. 27);
ἡ προθεσμία, namely,
ἡμέρα,
the day previously appointed; universally,
the pre-appointed time:
Galatians 4:2. (
Lysias,
Plato,
Demosthenes,
Aeschines,
Diodorus,
Philo — cf. Siegfried,
Philo, p. 113,
Josephus,
Plutarch, others; ecclesiastical writings; cf.
Kypke and Hilgenfeld on Galatians, the passage cited.)