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)
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 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.
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
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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)
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.
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.
Strong's G4313 (προπορεύομαι) appears 32 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
30 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
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.
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?
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;
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
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.
First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4313.
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.
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?
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;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And he says, I myself will go before thee, and give thee rest.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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.
For it is the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, and to save you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And she said to her servants, Go on before me, and behold I come after you: but she told not her husband.
Righteousness shall go before him; And shall set his steps in the way.
Justice and judgment are the establishment of thy throne: Mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Fire shall go before him, And burn up his enemies round about.
But the ways of the righteous shine like light; They go on and shine, until the day be fully come.
And thy want like a swift courier.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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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]
This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's G4313 across 12 books.
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.
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.
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.