This verb captures the dual sense of looking ahead—both mentally (foreseeing what will happen) and practically (making provision for it). In classical usage it meant to foresee events or to provide against future needs. The single New Testament occurrence (Hebrews 11:40) uses the middle voice in a theological context: God having foreseen or provided something better concerning us, ensuring that the Old Testament saints would not be made perfect apart from the new covenant community.