Prevent

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PREVENT.—To ‘prevent’ in the Eng. of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] is to ‘be before,’ ‘anticipate,’ ‘forestall,’ as Psa_119:147 ‘I prevented the dawning of the morning and cried’ (Amer. Revision has ‘anticipated’ here, but the Eng. Revisers retain ‘prevented’). Sometimes it is to forestall for one’s good, as Psa_59:10 ‘The God of my mercy shall prevent me’; and sometimes for one’s hurt, as Psa_18:5 ‘The snares of death prevented me’; but the mod. idea of merely ‘hindering’ never occurs in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] .
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

prḗ-vent? (קדם, ḳādham; προφθάνω, prophthánō, φθάνω, phthánō): ?Prevent? occurs in the King James Version in the literal but obsolete sense of ?to come or go before,? ?to anticipate,? not in the sense of ?to hinder.? It is the translation of ḳādham, ?to be sharp,? ?to be in front,? ?to be beforehand? (2Sa_22:6, 2Sa_22:19, the Revised Version (British and American) ?came upon? Job_3:12, the Revised Version (British and American) ?receive?; Job_30:27, ?are come upon?; Job_41:11, ?first given?; Psa_18:5, Psa_18:18, ?came upon?; Psa_21:3, the American Standard Revised Version ?meetest?; Psa_59:10, the American Standard Revised Version ?meet?; Psa_79:8, the American Standard Revised Version ?meet?; Psa_88:13, ?come before?; Psa_119:147, Psa_119:148, the American Standard Revised Version ?anticipated?; Isa_21:14, ?did meet?; Amo_9:10, the American Standard Revised Version ?meet?). In the New Testament prophthanō, with same meaning, is translated ?prevent? (Mat_17:25, ?Jesus prevented him,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?spake first to him?); phthanō (1Th_4:15, ?shall not prevent,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?shall in no wise precede?). ?Prevent? in the above sense occurs in The Wisdom of Solomon 6:13, the Revised Version (British and American) ?forestalleth? (phthanō); 16:28, ?we must prevent the sun to give thee thanks,? the Revised Version (British and American) ?rise before.?

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Prevent
(some form of קָדִם, φθάνω, both meaning to precede or anticipate) is understood, in our translation of the Scriptures, only in the old Latin sense, as denoting—
1. To come before one is expected or sought (Job_30:27);
2. To go before, or be sooner (Psa_119:147). One is happily disappointed when favors come unasked (Job_3:12; Psa_18:18), or unhappily, when snares and afflictions come unexpectedly (2Sa_22:6).

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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