first: chief

Greek Adjective

B. Superl., πρῶτος, -η, -ον, [in LXX chiefly for רִאשׁוֹן, also for אֶחַד, etc;] first, 1) of Time or Place; (a) absol, as subst., ὁ π, Luk.14:18, Jhn.19:32, 1Co.14:30; ὁ π. καὶ ὁ ἔσχατος, Rev.1:17 2:8 22:13; neut, τὸ π, opposite to τ. δεύτερον, Heb.10:9; τὰ π, opposite to τ. ἔσχατα, Mat.12:45, Luk.11:26, 2Pe.2:20; anarth, Mat.10:2; pl, Mat.19:30, Mrk.10:31, Luk.13:30; ἐν πρώτοις (EV, first of all), 1Co.15:3; (b) as adj.: πρώτῃ; (sc. ἡμέρᾳ) σαββάτου, Mk 16:[9]; φυλακή, opposite to δευτέρα, Act.12:10; equiv. to adv. in English, Jhn.8:[7] 20:4, 8 Act.27:43, Rom.10:19, 1Ti.1:16, 1Jn.4:19; = πρότερος (see infr; cf. M, Pr., 79; Bl, §11, 5; Thackeray, Gr., 183f.): with genitive, π. μου ἦν (my chief: Abbott, Jg., 509ff; but cf. M, Pr., 245), Jhn.1:15, 30; with art, Mrk.14:12, Act.1:1, al; before ὁ δεύτερος, etc, Mat.22:25, Mrk.12:20, al. 2) Of Rank or Dignity, chief, principal: Mat.20:27 22:38, Mrk.9:35, Eph.6:2, al; with genitive, Mrk.12:28, 29 al; πόλις (Field, Notes, 124), Act.16:12; with art, Luk.15:22 19:47, Act.13:50, al. 3) Neut, πρῶτον, as adv., first, at the first; (a) of Time: Mat.8:21, Mrk.4:28, al; τὸ π, Jhn.10:40, al; (b) of Order: Rom.3:2, 1Co.11:18, al. (AS)

first: chief

Greek Adjective

πρῶτος, η, ον, see at {πρότερος} [Refs 5th c.BC+]

Greek

Adjective

foremost (in time, place, order or importance); before, beginning, best, chief(-est), first (of all), former; contracted superlative of g4253 (πρό)