STRONGS NUMBER G4291

Original Word: προΐστημι
Transliteration: proistēmi
Phonetic Spelling: (pro-is'-tay-mee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: early
Meaning: earlymaintain, be over, rule.

From pro and histemi; to stand before, i.e. (in rank) to preside, or (by implication) to practise -- maintain, be over, rule.

see GREEK pro

see GREEK histemi

STRONGS NT 4291: προΐστημι

προΐστημι: 2 aorist infinitive προστῆναι; perfect participle προεστώς; present middle προισταμαι; from Homer, Iliad 4, 156 down;

1. in the transitive tenses to set or place before; to set over.

2. in the perfect pluperfect and 2 aorist active and in the present and imperfect middle a. to be over, to superintend, preside over (A. V. rule) (so from Herodotus down): 1 Timothy 5:17; with a genitive of the person or thing over which one presides, 1 Thessalonians 5:12; 1 Timothy 3:4f, 12.

b. to be a protector or guardian; to give aid (Euripides, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Polybius): Romans 12:8 ((others with A. V. to rule; cf. Fritzsche at the passage; Stuart, commentary, excurs. xii.)).

c. to care for, give attention to: with a genitive of the thing, καλῶν ἔργων, Titus 3:8, 14; for examples from secular writings see Kypke and Lösner; (some (cf. R. V. marginal reading) would render these two examples profess honest occupations (see ἔργον, 1); but cf. ἔργον, 3, p. 248b middle and Field, Otium Norv. pars iii, at the passage cited).