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Strong's G4313 προπορεύομαι (proporeuomai)

Proporeuomai means “go before” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4313 — meyhayyarqon in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4313
Language Greek
Linked Usages 33
Books 12

Strong's G4313 Quick Answer

Strong's G4313 προπορεύομαι (proporeuomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. proporeuomai (prop-or-yoo'-om-ai) v. 1. to precede (as guide or herald) [from G4253 and G4198] It has 33 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include go. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
proporeuomai (prop-or-yoo'-om-ai) v. 1. to precede (as guide or herald) [from G4253 and G4198]
Usage
33 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
go

Meaning and Definition

proporeuomai (prop-or-yoo'-om-ai) v. 1. to precede (as guide or herald) [from G4253 and G4198] KJV: go before Root(s): G4253, G4198 Compare: G4365

Original Word
προπορεύομαι
Transliteration
proporeuomai
Derivation
Root: πορεύομαι R1: 4253 R2: 4198
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4313. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to go before

Usage: προ-πορεύω [in LXX chiefly for הָלַךְ, also for עָבַר, etc. ;] to make to go before. Pass. and mid., to go before: Luk.1:76, Act.7:40" (LXX) ,† (AS)

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How Strong's G4313 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render proporeuomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

go Luke 1:76

How Strong's G4313 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 30 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4313 (προπορεύομαι) appears 32 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4313 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G4313 in the New Testament

2 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 1:76 KJV

And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

Acts 7:40 KJV

Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

Strong's G4313 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

30 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 32:17 Septuagint / Brenton

And he gave them to his servants each drove apart; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.

Genesis 32:18 Septuagint / Brenton

And he charged the first, saying, If Esau my brother meet thee, and he ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither wouldest thou go, and whose are these possessions advancing before thee?

Genesis 32:20 Septuagint / Brenton

And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him;

Strong's G4313 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 9:11 Septuagint / Brenton

With that the host of Bacchides removed out of their tents, and stood over against them, their horsemen being divided into two troops, and their slingers and archers going before the host, and they that marched in the foreward were all mighty men.

Usage Excerpts

First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4313.

Genesis 32:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he gave them to his servants each drove apart; and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and put a space between drove and drove.
Genesis 32:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he charged the first, saying, If Esau my brother meet thee, and he ask thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither wouldest thou go, and whose are these possessions advancing before thee?
Genesis 32:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he charged the first and the second and the third, and all that went before him after these flocks, saying, Thus shall ye speak to Esau when ye find him;
Genesis 32:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and ye shall say, Behold thy servant Jacob comes after us. For he said, I will propitiate his countenance with the gifts going before his presence, and afterward I will behold his face, for peradventure he will accept me.
Exodus 14:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of God that went before the camp of the children of Israel removed and went behind, and the pillar of the cloud also removed from before them and stood behind them.
Exodus 17:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Go before this people, and take to thyself of the elders of the people; and the rod with which thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and thou shalt go.
Exodus 32:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people combined against Aaron, and said to him, Arise and make us gods who shall go before us; for this Moses, the man who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt—we do not know what is become of him.
Exodus 32:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they say to me, Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him.
Exodus 32:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now go, descend, and lead this people into the place of which I spoke to thee: behold, my angel shall go before thy face; and in the day when I shall visit I will bring upon them their sin.
Exodus 33:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he says, I myself will go before thee, and give thee rest.
Numbers 10:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they departed from the mount of the Lord a three days’ journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them a three days’ journey to provide rest for them.
Deuteronomy 1:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 1:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in fire by night, showing you the way by which ye go, and a cloud by day.
Deuteronomy 3:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I charged you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land by lot; arm yourselves, every one that is powerful, and go before your brethren the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 9:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt know today, that the Lord thy God he shall go before thy face: he is a consuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before thee, and shall destroy them quickly, as the Lord said to thee.
Deuteronomy 20:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For it is the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, and to save you.
Deuteronomy 31:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord thy God who goes before thee, he shall destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt inherit them: and it shall be Joshua that goes before thy face, as the Lord has spoken.
Deuteronomy 31:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Be courageous and strong, fear not, neither be cowardly, neither be afraid before them; for it is the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will he by any means forsake thee, nor desert thee.
Joshua 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and go before the people: and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and went before the people.
Joshua 6:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterward the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
Joshua 10:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the sun and the moon stood still, Until God executed vengeance on their enemies; and the sun stood still in the midst of heaven; it did not proceed to set till the end of one day.
Joshua 10:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they brought them out to Joshua, then Joshua called together all Israel, and the chiefs of the army that went with him, saying to them, Come forward and set your feet on their necks; and they came and set their feet on their necks.
1 Kingdoms 17:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the staff of his spear was like a weavers’ beam, and the spear’s head was formed of six hundred shekels of iron; and his armor bearer went before him.
1 Kingdoms 25:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she said to her servants, Go on before me, and behold I come after you: but she told not her husband.
Psalms 84:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Righteousness shall go before him; And shall set his steps in the way.
Psalms 88:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Justice and judgment are the establishment of thy throne: Mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Psalms 96:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Fire shall go before him, And burn up his enemies round about.
Proverbs 4:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the ways of the righteous shine like light; They go on and shine, until the day be fully come.
Proverbs 24:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thy want like a swift courier.
Isaiah 58:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily spring forth: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of God shall compass thee.
Luke 1:76 New Testament, KJV
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
Acts 7:40 New Testament, KJV
Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
1 Maccabees 9:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
With that the host of Bacchides removed out of their tents, and stood over against them, their horsemen being divided into two troops, and their slingers and archers going before the host, and they that marched in the foreward were all mighty men.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4313, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4313 FAQ

What does proporeuomai (προπορεύομαι) mean?

Proporeuomai (Strong's G4313) is a Greek word most simply glossed "go before". proporeuomai (prop-or-yoo'-om-ai) v. 1. to precede (as guide or herald) [from G4253 and G4198]

How many times is proporeuomai (προπορεύομαι) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's G4313 across 12 books.

Where can I study proporeuomai (προπορεύομαι) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4313 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate proporeuomai (προπορεύομαι)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as go. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4313 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 30 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4313, with linked reader references where each row is available.