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πρόδρομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόδρομος πρόδρομον

Structure: προδρομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from prodramei=n aor2 inf. of protre/xw

Sense

  1. running forward, with headlong speed
  2. going in advance, the advanced guard, "the guides, "
  3. a precursor

Examples

  • καὶ ἔσται τὸ ἄνθοσ τὸ ἐκπεσὸν τῆσ ἐλπίδοσ τῆσ δόξησ ἐπ̓ ἄκρου τοῦ ὄρουσ τοῦ ὑψηλοῦ ὡσ πρόδρομοσ σύκου, ὁ ἰδὼν αὐτό, πρὶν ἢ εἰσ τὴν χεῖραν αὐτοῦ λαβεῖν, θελήσει αὐτὸ καταπιεῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 28:4)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ πρόδρομοσ σῆσ παρασκευῆσ χάριν ἥκω· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 1:15)
  • στρατόπεδον λιπὼν ῥεῖ πολὺσ ὅδε λεὼσ πρόδρομοσ ἱππότασ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode, lyric3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ δαιμόνων πρόδρομοσ ἦλθον ἀρ‐ χαῖα βρέτη, θεοῖσι πίσυνοσ, νιφάδοσ ὅτ’ ὀλοᾶσ νειφομένασ βρόμοσ ἐν πύλαισ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ὅπου πρόδρομοσ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν εἰσῆλθεν Ιἠσοῦσ, κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Μελχισεδὲκ ἀρχιερεὺσ γενόμενοσ εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα. (PROS EBRAIOUS, chapter 1 123:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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