Strong G4260προβαίνω
to advance
- Transliteration
- probainō
- Pronunciation
- prob-ah'ee-no
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
προ-βαίνω
[in LXX chiefly for בּוֹא;]
to go forwards, go on, advance: Mat.4:21, Mrk.1:19. Metaphorical, of age (Gen.18:11, al., Lys., Diod., al.), ἐν τ. ἡμέραις, Luk.1:7, 18 2:36.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for בּוֹא;]
to go forwards, go on, advance: Mat.4:21, Mrk.1:19. Metaphorical, of age (Gen.18:11, al., Lys., Diod., al.), ἐν τ. ἡμέραις, Luk.1:7, 18 2:36.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4260 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- go2
- stricken2
- age1
- be1
First verses
- Matthew 4:21And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
- Mark 1:19And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
- Luke 1:7And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
- Luke 1:18And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
- Luke 2:36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
προβαίνω,
future -βήσομαι: perfect -βέβηκα: aorist 2 προὔβην, imperative πρόβᾱ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 262, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 872 (Lyric poetry))], plural πρόβᾱτε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 841 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1047 (Lyric poetry): 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has only)]perfect and present participle προβιβάς (as if from βίβημἰ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.18, but προβιβῶντα (-τἰ (as if from βιβάὠ [prev. work] 807, +others codices (see. below))]; imperative προβιβάσθων [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; participle προβάοντε, read by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus for προβοῶντε, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.277; προβῶντες 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 126)]:— step forward, advance, κραιπνά, κοῦφα ποσὶ προβιβάς, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.18, 158, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.27)]; τὸν δ᾽ ὦκα προβιβάντα (-βιβῶντα codices) πόδες φέρον [Refs (15.555)]; ὑπασπίδια προβιβάντι (-βιβῶντι codices) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.807, compare 16.609; π. εὐθέσι τοῖς σκέλεσι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 604b5: with _accusative_ _cognate_, οἵαν ὁδὸν ἁ δειλαιοτάτα π. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 263 (Lyric poetry))]; μέγα π. take a big stride forward, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 60.)]
b of hair, grow, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 64.50.)]
2 as a mark of Time, ἄστρα προβέβηκε they are far gone in heaven, i.e. it is past midnight. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.252)]; ἡ νὺξ π. the night is wearing fast, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.13: hence of Time itself, τοῦ χρόνου προβαίνοντος)] as time went on, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.53, 140; ὁ μὲν χρόνος δὴ διὰ χρόνου προὔβαινέ μοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 285)]; also τὰ μὲν προβέβηκεν the past, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 583)]; προβαίνοντος τοῦ ἔργου, τοῦ πολέμου, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.47.3; τοῦ κώθωνος εὖ μάλα προβεβηκότος Hegesander Historicus 21)]; ἐκ τοῦ προβεβηκότος, e re nata, on the spur of the moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.12.2: of Age, προβήσεται ἡ ἡλικία 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 6)]; of persons, οἱ προβεβηκότες τῇ ἡλικίᾳ advanced in age, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.16, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.18)]; π. τῶν ἡμερῶν, ταῖς ἡμέραις, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Josh.13.1, 23.1: _absolutely_, οἱ π. 3rd c.BC: Bato Comicus 7.9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 24; ἐπεὶ προέβη τοῖς ἔτεσιν 3rd c.BC: Macho Comicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.580c; προβεβηκότες ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῶν NT.Luke.1.7, compare 18; ἡλικίας εἰς τὸ πρόσθε π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 325c; π. εἰς πεντήκοντα ἔτη 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 68.4 (nisi to be read προεβεβιώκεἰ.)]
3 metaphorically of narrative, argument, action, events, μὴ πέρα προβῇς λόγου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 66; προβήσομαι ἐς τὸ πρόσω τοῦ λόγου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.5)]; προβάς φησιν.. further on, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1012.12, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.87 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]; π. ἐκ τῶν κνημέων ἐς τοὺς μηρούς went on.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.75)]; προέβαινε τὸ ἔθνος ἄρχον καὶ ἐπιτροπεῦον the nation was organized in a series of overlordships and mandates, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.134; προὔβης τῶνδε καὶ περαιτέρω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 249; π. ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατον θράσους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 853 (Lyric poetry); οἷ προβαίνει τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦ βουλεύματος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 836; ποῖ προβήσεται λόγο; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 342; πέρας δὴ ποῖ κακῶν προβήσετα; [prev. author] “Or.” 511, compare 749; τὸ τῆς τύχης ἀφανὲς οἷ προβήσεται [prev. author] Alcaeus785; μὴ προβαίη μεῖζον ἢ τὸ νῦν κακόν [prev. author] “Med.” 907; τὸ ἔθος ἐπὶ πολὺ προβαίνει 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.179: _impersonal_, εἰς τοῦτο προβέβηκε ὥστε..)] it has gone so far that..,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 839c)]; π. πόρρω μοχθηρίας to be far gone in knavery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 30; π. εἰς τοῦτο ἔχθρας ὥστε.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.16; εἰς ἀταξίαν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.38; μέχρι τίνος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.1.3; ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον π. τὰ πράγματα [prev. author] 5.30.6)]: in good sense, make progress, τοσοῦτον προβεβήκαμεν ὥστε.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 187a)]; of an enterprise, prosper, succeed, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“BGU” 1209.10 (1st c.BC), etc.)]
II go before, i.e. be superior to, another, πολὺ προβέβηκας ἁπάντων σῷ θάρσει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.125; κράτεϊ 16.54, compare 23.890)]; δυνάμει τε καὶ αἰδοῖ Τρηχῖνος προβέβηκε by might and awe he is over, i.e. rules, Trachis, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 355, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 1.5.)]
III with accusative of things, overstep, τέρμα προβάς [Refs (Pi “N.” 7.71.)]
IV with accusative of the instrum. of motion, πόδα π. [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 283; οὐκ ἂν προβαίην τὸν πόδα τὸν ἕτερον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 161, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist. Conscr.” 29; προβὰς δὲ κῶλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1412; ἀρβύλαν προβάς [prev. author] “Or.” 1470 (Lyric poetry))]; προβεβήκασι τὰ ἀριστερά have their left legs foremost (variant{προβεβλήκασι}, see at {προβάλλω} [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 706a7; προβὰς τὸν πόδα τὸν ἀριστερὸν καὶ τὸν δεξιὸν ὑποβάς 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.23.)]
V Causal, in future active, move forward, advance, τίς τρόπος ἄνδρα προβάσει [ᾱ]; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.63.)]
future -βήσομαι: perfect -βέβηκα: aorist 2 προὔβην, imperative πρόβᾱ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 262, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 872 (Lyric poetry))], plural πρόβᾱτε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 841 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1047 (Lyric poetry): 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has only)]perfect and present participle προβιβάς (as if from βίβημἰ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.18, but προβιβῶντα (-τἰ (as if from βιβάὠ [prev. work] 807, +others codices (see. below))]; imperative προβιβάσθων [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; participle προβάοντε, read by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus for προβοῶντε, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.277; προβῶντες 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 126)]:— step forward, advance, κραιπνά, κοῦφα ποσὶ προβιβάς, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.18, 158, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.27)]; τὸν δ᾽ ὦκα προβιβάντα (-βιβῶντα codices) πόδες φέρον [Refs (15.555)]; ὑπασπίδια προβιβάντι (-βιβῶντι codices) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.807, compare 16.609; π. εὐθέσι τοῖς σκέλεσι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 604b5: with _accusative_ _cognate_, οἵαν ὁδὸν ἁ δειλαιοτάτα π. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 263 (Lyric poetry))]; μέγα π. take a big stride forward, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 60.)]
b of hair, grow, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 64.50.)]
2 as a mark of Time, ἄστρα προβέβηκε they are far gone in heaven, i.e. it is past midnight. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.252)]; ἡ νὺξ π. the night is wearing fast, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.13: hence of Time itself, τοῦ χρόνου προβαίνοντος)] as time went on, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.53, 140; ὁ μὲν χρόνος δὴ διὰ χρόνου προὔβαινέ μοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 285)]; also τὰ μὲν προβέβηκεν the past, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 583)]; προβαίνοντος τοῦ ἔργου, τοῦ πολέμου, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.23, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.47.3; τοῦ κώθωνος εὖ μάλα προβεβηκότος Hegesander Historicus 21)]; ἐκ τοῦ προβεβηκότος, e re nata, on the spur of the moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 7.12.2: of Age, προβήσεται ἡ ἡλικία 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 6)]; of persons, οἱ προβεβηκότες τῇ ἡλικίᾳ advanced in age, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.16, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.18)]; π. τῶν ἡμερῶν, ταῖς ἡμέραις, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Josh.13.1, 23.1: _absolutely_, οἱ π. 3rd c.BC: Bato Comicus 7.9, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 24; ἐπεὶ προέβη τοῖς ἔτεσιν 3rd c.BC: Macho Comicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 13.580c; προβεβηκότες ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῶν NT.Luke.1.7, compare 18; ἡλικίας εἰς τὸ πρόσθε π. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 325c; π. εἰς πεντήκοντα ἔτη 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 68.4 (nisi to be read προεβεβιώκεἰ.)]
3 metaphorically of narrative, argument, action, events, μὴ πέρα προβῇς λόγου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 66; προβήσομαι ἐς τὸ πρόσω τοῦ λόγου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.5)]; προβάς φησιν.. further on, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1012.12, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.87 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]; π. ἐκ τῶν κνημέων ἐς τοὺς μηρούς went on.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.75)]; προέβαινε τὸ ἔθνος ἄρχον καὶ ἐπιτροπεῦον the nation was organized in a series of overlordships and mandates, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.134; προὔβης τῶνδε καὶ περαιτέρω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 249; π. ἐπ᾽ ἔσχατον θράσους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 853 (Lyric poetry); οἷ προβαίνει τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦ βουλεύματος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 836; ποῖ προβήσεται λόγο; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 342; πέρας δὴ ποῖ κακῶν προβήσετα; [prev. author] “Or.” 511, compare 749; τὸ τῆς τύχης ἀφανὲς οἷ προβήσεται [prev. author] Alcaeus785; μὴ προβαίη μεῖζον ἢ τὸ νῦν κακόν [prev. author] “Med.” 907; τὸ ἔθος ἐπὶ πολὺ προβαίνει 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.179: _impersonal_, εἰς τοῦτο προβέβηκε ὥστε..)] it has gone so far that..,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 839c)]; π. πόρρω μοχθηρίας to be far gone in knavery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 30; π. εἰς τοῦτο ἔχθρας ὥστε.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.16; εἰς ἀταξίαν 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.38; μέχρι τίνος 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.1.3; ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον π. τὰ πράγματα [prev. author] 5.30.6)]: in good sense, make progress, τοσοῦτον προβεβήκαμεν ὥστε.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 187a)]; of an enterprise, prosper, succeed, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“BGU” 1209.10 (1st c.BC), etc.)]
II go before, i.e. be superior to, another, πολὺ προβέβηκας ἁπάντων σῷ θάρσει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.125; κράτεϊ 16.54, compare 23.890)]; δυνάμει τε καὶ αἰδοῖ Τρηχῖνος προβέβηκε by might and awe he is over, i.e. rules, Trachis, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 355, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 1.5.)]
III with accusative of things, overstep, τέρμα προβάς [Refs (Pi “N.” 7.71.)]
IV with accusative of the instrum. of motion, πόδα π. [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 283; οὐκ ἂν προβαίην τὸν πόδα τὸν ἕτερον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 161, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist. Conscr.” 29; προβὰς δὲ κῶλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1412; ἀρβύλαν προβάς [prev. author] “Or.” 1470 (Lyric poetry))]; προβεβήκασι τὰ ἀριστερά have their left legs foremost (variant{προβεβλήκασι}, see at {προβάλλω} [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 706a7; προβὰς τὸν πόδα τὸν ἀριστερὸν καὶ τὸν δεξιὸν ὑποβάς 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.23.)]
V Causal, in future active, move forward, advance, τίς τρόπος ἄνδρα προβάσει [ᾱ]; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.63.)]