Acts 26:9:6Acts.26.9.W6TAB
πρὸς
pros
“toward”
- Transliteration
- pros
- Extended
- prohs
- IPA
- /pros/
Meaning by language
- English
- toward
Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
pros
- sentence
e-GO MEN OUN E-dok-sa e-mau-TOI pros to O-no-ma ee-AY-SOO tou na-zō-ra-EE-ou DEIN pol-LA e-nan-TI-a PRAK-sai
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase pros to onoma {πρὸς τὸ ὄνομα | pròs tò ónoma} ‘against the name’ employs pros with the accusative to indicate opposition, with onoma standing metonymically for Jesus’s authority.
In context — Acts 26:9
I indeed therefore thought to myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene .
About this coordinate
Acts 26:9:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Acts 26:9, so the Greek word πρὸς (pros) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.26.9.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.26.9.W6.S1) and character.