G4287 — προθέσμιος
προθεσμία, προθεσμιον (πρό (which see in d. β.) and θεσμός fixed, appointed), set beforehand, appointed or determined beforehand, pre-arranged (Lucian, Nigr. 27); ἡ προθεσμία, namely, ἡμέρα, the day previously appointed; universally, the pre-appointed time: [Gal 4:2]. (Lysias, Plato, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Diodorus, Philo — cf. Siegfried, Philo, p. 113, Josephus, Plutarch, others; ecclesiastical writings; cf. Kypke and Hilgenfeld on Galatians, the passage cited.)
** προ - θέσμιος , - α , - ον ,
[in Sm .: [Job 28:3], [Dan 9:26] * ;]
appointed before-hand. In Attic law, as subst . (so always in cl .), ἡ Papyri ( sc . ἡμέρα ), a day appointed beforehand, a previously appointed time: [Gal 4:2]. †