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Strong's #4307 - πρόνοια
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- forethought, providential care
- to make provision for a thing
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πρόνοια,
Ion. προνο-οίη, ἡ, ( πρόνοος ) perceiving beforehand, foresight, foreknowledge, τοὖπος τὸ θεοπρόπον τᾶς παλαιφάτου π. S. Tr. 823 (lyr.); προνοίαισι τοῦ πεπρωμένου A. Ag. 684 (lyr.).
2. = πρόγνωσις 11 .b, Hp. ap. Gal. 18 (2).8.
II foresight, forethought, ἐπῄνεσ' . . πρόνοιαν ἣν ἔθου S. Aj. 536; π. δ' ἐστὶν οὐδενὸς σαφής Id. OT 978; προνοίας οὕνεκα so far as foresight, caution is required, Id. Ph. 774, cf. El. 1015; ἐκ προνοίης with forethought, purposely, Hdt. 1.120, 159, etc.; opp. κατὰ τύχην, Id. 8.87, cf. Antipho 5.21, Lys. 26.19, Pl. Phdr. 241e; ἀπὸ προνοίας τινῶν by their precautions, Th. 8.95; τὴν π. τὴν ές ἡμέας ἔχουσαν Hdt. 8.144; προνοίᾳ τῶν συγγενῶν, φίλων, τῆς πόλεως, by care for . ., And. 1.56; esp. of crimes committed with design or malice prepense, ἐκ προνοίας τραῦμα, ἐκ π. φόνοι, Aeschin. 3.212, Din. 1.6, etc.; ἐκ π. ἀποθνῄσκειν Antipho 1.22, cf. Lys. 3.28; τὰ ἐκ π., opp. ἀκούσια, Arist. Pol. 1300b26; so οὐδεμία π. ἐστι τραύματος no intention of wounding, Lys. 3.41; πρόνοιαν ἔχειν (or ἴσχειν ) τινός to take thought for . ., show care for . ., E. Alc. 1061, Th. 2.89, etc.; περί τινος S. Ant. 283; ὑπέρ τινος Isoc. 16.9; ἡ τοῦ χόρτου π. PFlor. 131.7 (iii A. D.), cf. 148.2 (iii A. D.): c. inf., πολλὴν π. εἶχεν εὐσχήμως (fort. εὐσχήμων ) πεσεῖν E. Hec. 569; πολλὴν π. ἔχειν μέλλοντας . . to be ware of doing a thing, Antipho 5.91; π. ποιεῖσθαί τινος D. 21.97, etc.: pl., X. Oec. 7.38 .
2. providence, τοῦ θείου ἡ π. Hdt. 3.108; τοῦ θεοῦ S. OC 1180; θεία π. E. Ph. 637 (troch.); πρόνοιαι θεῶν Pl. Ti. 44c: abs., divine providence, προνοίας ἔργῳ X. Mem. 1.4.6, etc., cf. Zeno Stoic. 1.44, Cleanth.ib.121, Chrysipp. ib.2.168, al. ( περὶ προνοίας as title of one of his works, ib.3.203).
3. Pythag. name for five, Theol.Ar. 31.
4. office of προνοητής, POxy. 472.10 (ii A. D.) .
III Πρόνοια Ἀθηνᾶ Athena as goddess of Forethought, under which name she was worshipped at Delphi, D. 25.34, D.S. 11.14, Parth. 25, Paus. 10.8.6, Plu. 2.825b, Jul. Or. 4.149b, etc.; at Delos acc. to Macr. Sat. 1.17.55, cf. Aristid. 1.97 J., Or. 37(2).26; also Ἰουλία θεὰ Σεβαστὴ Π. IG 3.461: this name of Athena, which is guaranteed by the context in D., Aristid., Jul., Macr. Il. cc., seems to have been a distortion of the name Προναία or Προνᾴα (v. πρόναος 1 ), but πρόνοια is f.l. for Προναία (or Προνᾴα ) in Aeschin. (v. πρόναος 1 ), and D.S., Parth., Paus., Plu. Il. cc. shd. perh. be corrected.
πρόνοια, προνοίας, ἡ (προνως), from (Aeschylus, Sophocles), Herodotus down, forethought, provident care: Acts 24:2 (3) (A. V. providence); ποιοῦμαι πρόνοιαν τίνος, to make provision for a thing (see ποιέω, I. 3, p. 526a top), Romans 13:14.
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πρόνοια , -ας , ἡ
(<πρόνοος , careful),
[in LXX: Da LXX Daniel 6:18 (19) Wisdom of Solomon 14:3; Wisdom of Solomon 17:2; *;]
foresight, forethought: Acts 24:3; Papyri ποιεῖσθαι , c. gen. (Dem., 546, 6), make provision for, show care for: Romans 13:14.†
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As distinguished from πρόϊμος, derived from πρό, πρωϊνός (Revelation 2:28; Revelation 22:16), derived from πρωΐ, means ";belonging to the morning"; in contrast to ἑσπερινός, ";belonging to the evening"; (see s.v. ἑσπερινός) : cf. Thackeray Gr. i. p. 90.
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