Prin functions as both an adverb and a conjunction in the New Testament, consistently expressing temporal priority — 'before this happens' or 'before you do that.' Its 13 occurrences cluster around pivotal narrative moments, most memorably in Jesus' prediction that Peter would deny him 'before the rooster crows' (Matt 26:34; Mark 14:30). The word also marks divine timing, as in Matthew 1:18 where Mary was found with child 'before' Joseph and she came together. The multilingual evidence — Spanish 'antes/antes-que,' French 'avant/avant-que,' German 'bevor' — uniformly confirms a single temporal-precedence sense with no semantic branching.