# G4269 πρόγονος

πρόγονος (prógonos), Strong’s G4269: an ancestor, (grand-)parent KJV: forefather, parent. Occurs 13 times.

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*prógonos* — an ancestor, (grand-)parent

KJV: forefather, parent

Derived from [προγίνομαι progínomai](https://besorah.bible/word/G4266) (to be already)

Occurs 13 times.

## Where it occurs
- [1 Timothy 5:4](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/5?v=4) — But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay…
- [2 Timothy 1:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-timothy/1?v=3) — I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my…
- [Sirach 8:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/8?v=4) — Don’t make fun of a rude man, lest your ancestors be dishonored.
- [2 Maccabees 8:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/8?v=19) — Moreover, he recounted to them the help given from time to time in the days of their ancestors, both in the days of…
- [2 Maccabees 11:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/11?v=25) — choosing therefore that this nation also should be free from disturbance, we determine that their temple is to be…
- [3 Maccabees 5:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/5?v=31) — “Your parents, or your children, were they here, would have given a large meal to these wild animals, not these…
- [3 Maccabees 6:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/6?v=28) — Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious…
- [3 Maccabees 7:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/7?v=7) — and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity toward us and toward our ancestors, we have, as we ought…
- [4 Maccabees 3:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/3?v=8) — then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, around which the entire army of our…
- [4 Maccabees 5:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/5?v=29) — nor will I transgress the sacred oaths of my forefathers to keep the law.