The purpose and meaning of: Predestination

Word Summary
proorizō: to predetermine, foreordain
Original Word: προορίζω
Transliteration: proorizō
Phonetic Spelling: (pro-or-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to predetermine, foreordain
Meaning: to predetermine, foreordain

Strong's Concordance
determine before, ordain, predestinate.
From pro and horizo; to limit in advance, i.e. (figuratively) predetermine -- determine before, ordain, predestinate.

see GREEK pro

see GREEK horizo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4309: προορίζω

προορίζω: 1 aorist προορισα; 1 aorist passive participle προορισθεντες; to predetermine, decide beforehand, Vulg. (except in Acts)praedestino (R. V. to foreordain): in the N. T. of God decreeing from eternity, followed by an accusative with the infinitive Acts 4:28; τί, with the addition of πρό τῶν αἰώνων 1 Corinthians 2:7; τινα, with a predicate acc, to foreordain, appoint beforehand, Romans 8:29f; τινα εἰς τί, one to obtain a thing. Ephesians 1:5; προορισθεντες namely, κληρωθῆναι, Ephesians 1:11. (Heliodorus and ecclesiastical writings. (Ignatius ad Eph. tit.))

What do each of these root words mean?
* determine
* ordain
* foreknow

To what destination do these scriptures declare that. we, the elect - chosen from before the beginning - the body of Christ, his church, are promised? Not according to our own righteousness, but by His grace, even that veryt faith we believe the gospel of the grace of Christ Jesus, his death, burial and resurrection the power unto salvation for everyone.

FOREKNOW

Word Summary
proginōskō: to know beforehand
Original Word: προγινώσκω
Transliteration: proginōskō
Phonetic Spelling: (prog-in-oce'-ko)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to know beforehand
Meaning: to know beforehand
Strong's Concordance
foreknow, know before.
From pro and ginosko; to know beforehand, i.e. Foresee -- foreknow (ordain), know (before).

see GREEK pro

see GREEK ginosko

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4267: προγινώσκω

προγινώσκω; 2 aorist 3 person singular προέγνω; perfect passive participle προεγνωσμενος; to have knowledge of beforehand; to foreknow: namely, ταῦτα, 2 Peter 3:17, cf. 2 Peter 3:14, 16; τινα, Acts 26:5; οὕς προέγνω, whom he (God) foreknew, namely, that they would love him, or (with reference to what follows) whom he foreknew to be fit to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, Romans 8:29 (τῶν εἰς αὐτόν (Χριστόν) πιστεύειν προεγνωσμενων, Justin Martyr, dialog contr Trypho,
c. 42; προγινώσκει (ὁ Θεός) τινας ἐκ μετανοίας σωθήσεσθαι μέλλοντας, id. Apology 1:28); ὅν προέγνω, whose character he clearly saw beforehand, Rom. 11:( Lachmann in brackets), (against those who in the preceding passages from Rom. explain προγινώσκειν as meaning to predestinate, cf. Meyer, Philippi, Van Hengel); προεγνωσμένου, namely, ὑπό τοῦ Θεοῦ (foreknown by God, although not yet 'made manifest' to men), 1 Peter 1:20. (Wis. 6:14 Wis. 8:8 Wis. 18:6; Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, Herodian, Philostr., others.)

PREDESTIN[AT]E | FOREORDAIN
Word Summary
proorizō: to predetermine, foreordain
Original Word: προορίζω
Transliteration: proorizō
Phonetic Spelling: (pro-or-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to predetermine, foreordain
Meaning: to predetermine, foreordain

Strong's Concordance
determine before, ordain, predestinate.
From pro and horizo; to limit in advance, i.e. (figuratively) predetermine -- determine before, ordain, predestinate.

see GREEK pro

see GREEK horizo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4309: προορίζω

προορίζω: 1 aorist προορισα; 1 aorist passive participle προορισθεντες; to predetermine, decide beforehand, Vulg. (except in Acts)praedestino (R. V. to foreordain): in the N. T. of God decreeing from eternity, followed by an accusative with the infinitive Acts 4:28; τί, with the addition of πρό τῶν αἰώνων 1 Corinthians 2:7; τινα, with a predicate acc, to foreordain, appoint beforehand, Romans 8:29f; τινα εἰς τί, one to obtain a thing. Ephesians 1:5; προορισθεντες namely, κληρωθῆναι, Ephesians 1:11. (Heliodorus and ecclesiastical writings. (Ignatius ad Eph. tit.))

LIMIT

Word Summary
horizō: to mark off by boundaries, to determine
Original Word: ὁρίζω
Transliteration: horizō
Phonetic Spelling: (hor-id'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to mark off by boundaries, to determine
Meaning: to mark off by boundaries, to determine
Strong's Concordance
declare, determine, limit, ordain.
From horion; to mark out or bound ("horizon"), i.e. (figuratively) to appoint, decree, specify -- declare, determine, limit, ordain.

see GREEK horion

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3724: ὁρίζω

ὁρίζω; 1 aorist ὡρισα; passive, perfect participle ὡρισμένος; 1 aorist participle ὁρισθεις; (from ὅρος a boundary, limit); from (Aeschylus and) Herodotus down; to define; i. e.
1. to mark out the boundaries or limits (of any place or thing): Herodotus, Xenophon, Thucydides, others; Numbers 34:6; Joshua 13:27.

1. to determine, appoint: with an accusative of the thing, ἡμέραν, Hebrews 4:7; καιρούς, Acts 17:26 (numerous examples from Greek authors are given in Bleek, Hebrew-Br. 2:1, p. 538f); passive ὡρισμένος, 'determinate,' settled, Acts 2:23; τό ὡρισμένον, that which hath been determined, according to appointment, decree, Luke 22:22; with an accusative of person Acts 17:31 (ᾧ by attraction for ὅν (Winers Grammar, § 24, 1; Buttmann, § 143, 8)); passive with a predicate nominative, Romans 1:4 (for although Christ was the Son of God before his resurrection, yet he was openly appointed (A. V. declared) such among men by this transcendent and crowning event); ὁρίζω, to ordain, determine, appoint, Acts 10:42; followed by an infinitive Acts 11:29 (Sophocles from 19 d. (i. e. Aegeus (539), viii., p. 8, Brunck edition)). (Compare: ἀφορίζω, ἀποδιορίζω, πρωρίζω.)

(COME TO) KNOW

Word Summary
ginōskō: to come to know, recognize, perceive
Original Word: γινώσκω
Transliteration: ginōskō
Phonetic Spelling: (ghin-oce'-ko)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to come to know, recognize, perceive
Meaning: to come to know, recognize, perceive

Strong's Concordance
allow, be aware of, perceive.
A prolonged form of a primary verb; to "know" (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as follow, with others not thus clearly expressed) -- allow, be aware (of), feel, (have) know(-ledge), perceived, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1097: γινώσκω