Strong G4370προστρέχω

to hasten

Transliteration
prostrechō
Pronunciation
pros-trekh'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G4314 and G5143 (including its alternate); to run towards that is hasten to meet or join: - run (thither to to).

Detailed definition

προσ-τρέχω
[in LXX for רוּץ;]
to run to: Mrk.9:15 10:17, Act.8:30.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G4370 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • run3
  • come1

First verses

  1. Mark 9:15
    And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.
  2. Mark 10:17
    And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
  3. Acts 8:30
    And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
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Detailed Greek dictionary
προστρέχω,
future -δρᾰμοῦμαι[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.224)]:—run to or towards, come to one, πρὸς τοὺς νεκρούς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 440a)]; τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1084, “Av.” 759, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.10, etc.)]: absolutely, run up, [Refs ([prev. author] “HG” 3.1.18, “Cyr.” 7.1.15, D.[same place], etc.)]
2 in hostile sense, make a sally, πρός τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.47.)]
3 of things, happen to one, τινι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 13.37 codices)]; προστρέχει πολλαχοῦ τὸ γίγνεται” occurs frequently, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 401.)]
II metaphorically, join or side with, [τῇ συγκλήτῳ] [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 24.10.4, etc.; πρὸς τὴν τῶν πολλῶν γνώμην [prev. author] 28.7.8; πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν [prev. author] 18.15.2.)]
II.2 approach, -τρέχων τῇ ἐννόμῳ ἡλικίᾳ, i.e. not quite of age, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“POxy.” 247.12 (1st c.AD).)]
II.3 resemble, with dative, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 32.)]