Strong's Number 4286

The Linked Word Project
Transliteration:
prothesis {proth'-es-is}
Word Origin:
from 4388
TDNT:
8:164,1176
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
purpose 8, shewbread 740 4

Total: 12
Definition:
  1. a setting forth of a thing, placing of it in view, the shewbread
    1. twelve loaves of wheaten bread, corresponding to the number of the tribes of Israel, which loaves were offered to God every Sabbath, and separated into two rows, lay for seven days upon a table placed in the sanctuary or front portion of the tabernacle, and afterwards of the temple
  2. a purpose
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament