"pro" means "before"
"ginoskein" means "to know, to recognize"
"proginoskein" means "to foreknow"
You can verify in any Greek lexicon on the web or on
www.biblehub.com
It is just here that I previously made a post about the fact that there is also a verse in Ephesians [with regard to "the Church which is His body" presently in existence per Eph1:20-23 WHEN] that uses the word
"fore-hoped," that is
in Ephesians 1:12. [meaning, before Christ's earthly presence/resurrection/exaltation/etc...]
So with regard to the word
"foreknow [/foreknew]" in Romans 11:2, consider the following quote by Gaebelein, who I believe gets this right (for its usage
in THIS Romans 11:2 context [my words in brackets]):
[quoting]
"
Romans 11:1
"
In view of the preceding chapter on Israel’s rejection, the question is asked “
Hath God cast away His People?” Is there nothing more in store for national Israel? God forbid. If it were so, God’s gifts and calling would be subject to repentance and He would not be the faithful, covenant-keeping God. He foreknew His people Israel and that foreknowledge embraced all their sad history of failure and apostasy. The Apostle Paul speaks of himself as an Israelite of the seed of Abraham. He demonstrates in his own experience the fact that God hath not cast away His people. Hating Christ, having zeal for God without knowledge, a persecutor of the church, he had obtained mercy that in him Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him (
1Timothy 1:16). His unique conversion must be looked upon as a prophetic type of the conversion of the remnant of Israel, when the Lord comes. As Saul of Tarsus saw Him in the glory-light, so the Israel living in the day of the second Coming of Christ will behold Him (
Zechariah 12:10;
Revelation 1:7). This vision will result in their national conversion.
[my comment: I believe their "conversion" occurs before the point of His Second Coming to the earth, and DURING the specific trib years, and that these are who carry the Matt24:14(26:13) MESSAGE during the trib (leading up to His Second Coming to the earth--"the Church which is His body" not then being present on the earth; and that "INVITATION" message is (at that time) FOR/TO "the wedding
FEAST/SUPPER [on the earth commencing upon His 'RETURN']," i.e. the promised and prophesied
earthly Millennial Kingdom]
"
Romans 11:2-6
"The time of Elias was one of the darkest Periods of their history. it seemed as if the whole nation had apostatized from God. Elias had this conception when he complained in his despondency. “They have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.” The Lord told him then that there were seven thousand men who had not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. The apostasy of Israel was not a complete apostasy. The Lord had preserved a faithful remnant. Even so at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. In the beginning of this present age there was in existence a distinctive Jewish remnant. This Jewish-Christian remnant in the beginning of the dispensation was an evidence that God had not cast away His people. A similar remnant of believing Jews will be called for a definite work and testimony during the end of the age. And throughout this Christian dispensation it has been abundantly demonstrated that God has not cast away His ancient people, for thousands of them have been saved by grace and have become members of the body of Christ."
--Arno C Gaebelein, Commentary on Romans [source: Bible Hub]
[end quoting, bold and underline mine]
He has another article called something like "the jewish question" [the
context here]
