Pros

Bill Ross wross at farmerstel.com
Sat May 22 23:25:13 EDT 1999


PROS also means "with."

An example is the opening of John's Gospel:

EN ARKH HN hO LOGOS KAI hO LOGOS HN PROS TON THEON. ("In the beginning was
the Word and the Word was *with* God.")

Since you use the accusative with the object in either case, only context
distinuishes whether you mean "with" or "towards."

In the example above, it is generally taken as meaning "with." What is your
friends' theory about the word?

Bill Ross


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim West [mailto:jwest at highland.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 1999 9:22 PM
To: Biblical Greek
Cc: b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Pros


At 06:45 PM 5/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I am not a student in Greek, but I plan to be as soon as I am able.  I am
>having a discusion with someone about something, and they brought up the
>Greek word "pros".  Which is commonly translated as "with", I suppose.
>Does "pros" convey something more than just "with"?

It means to or towards.  With is the greek preposition "sun"
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jim West, ThD
email- jwest at highland.net
web page-  http://web.infoave.net/~jwest


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