Original Word: προθεσμία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: prothesmia
Phonetic Spelling: (proth-es'-mee-os)
Short Definition: appointed before
Definition: appointed before; a previously-appointed time.

Cognate: 4287 prothésmios(from 4253 /pró, "before" and 5087 /títhēmi, "to place") – properly, what is set (placed) beforehand, i.e. pre-appointed, foreordained (used only in Gal 4:2). See 4286 (próthesis).

STRONGS NT 4287: προθέσμιος

προθέσμιος, 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.)

Strong's Exhaustive 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

Forms and Transliterations

προεθυμήθησαν προθεσμιας προθεσμίας προθυμούμενος prothesmias prothesmías

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