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πρωτότοκος

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
πρωτότοκος, ον
Greek transliteration: 
prōtotokos
Simplified transliteration: 
prototokos
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4416
GK Number: 
4758
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
8
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
a-3a
Gloss: 
firstborn (human or animal). In biblical culture, the firstborn had higher status and received a greater share of the inheritance. Jesus Christ, as the firstborn of God, is of supreme status and inherits all things
Definition: 
first-born, Lk. 2:7; Heb. 11:28; in NT prior in generation, Col. 1:15; a firstborn head of a spiritual family, Rom. 8:29; Heb. 1:6; firstborn, as possessed of the peculiar privilege of spiritual generation, Heb. 12:23

Greek-English Concordance for πρωτότοκος

Luke 2:7 and she gave birth to a son, her firstborn (prōtotokon | πρωτότοκον | acc sg masc). She wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
Romans 8:29 because those he foreknew he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn (prōtotokon | πρωτότοκον | acc sg masc) among many brethren.
Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, invisible the firstborn (prōtotokos | πρωτότοκος | nom sg masc) over all creation;
Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn (prōtotokos | πρωτότοκος | nom sg masc) from the dead, in order that he might be preeminent in everything. he preeminent
Hebrews 1:6 And again, when he brings the firstborn (prōtotokon | πρωτότοκον | acc sg masc) into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”
Hebrews 11:28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroying angel would not touch their firstborn (prōtotoka | πρωτότοκα | acc pl neut).
Hebrews 12:23 and to the assembly of the firstborn (prōtotokōn | πρωτοτόκων | gen pl masc) whose names are inscribed in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous who have been made perfect,
Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn (prōtotokos | πρωτότοκος | nom sg masc) of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the world. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood