To predestine

Usually translated “predestined”, “determined beforehand” and “foreordained”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• he predestined 2
• determined beforehand 1
• foreordained 1
• having predestined 1
• having been predestined 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Romans 2
• Ephesians 2
• Acts 1
• 1 Corinthians 1

4 books in all.

• Romans 8:29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• Romans 8:30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
• 1 Corinthians 2:7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
• Ephesians 1:5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
• Ephesians 1:11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “predestine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.