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Deuteroprotos (Strong’s G1207): Meaning in the Bible

Deuteroprotos (δευτερόπρωτος) is the Greek word numbered G1207 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as second-first, i.e. (specially) a designation of the Sabbath immediately after the Paschal week (being the second after Passover day, and the first of the seven Sabbaths intervening before Pentecost). In the King James Bible it is translated second … after the first..

δευτερόπρωτος
deuteróprōtos · Greek
Strong’s G1207 · dyoo-ter-op'-ro-tos

The full Strong’s definition

second-first, i.e. (specially) a designation of the Sabbath immediately after the Paschal week (being the second after Passover day, and the first of the seven Sabbaths intervening before Pentecost)

Derivation. from G1208 and G4413;

How the King James Bible translates it

second … after the first.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Deuteroprotos in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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