Protrecho means “outrun” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4390 — male (“fill”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4390 προτρέχω (protrecho) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. protrecho (prot-rekh'-o) v. 1. to run forward, i.e. outstrip, precede [from G4253 and G5143 (including its alternate)] It has 5 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include before and outrun. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
protrecho (prot-rekh'-o) v. 1. to run forward, i.e. outstrip, precede [from G4253 and G5143 (including its alternate)] KJV: outrun, run before Root(s): G4253, G5143
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4390. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to outrun
Usage: προ-τρέχω [in LXX: 1Ki.8:11 (פָּנִים רוּץ), Job.41:13 (14) A (דּוּץ), Tob.11:3 (before ἔμπροσθεν), 1Ma.16:21 * ;] __1. to run forward. __2. to run on, run in advance: Jhn.20:4; before εἰς τὸ ἔμπροσθεν, Luk.19:4.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render protrecho, 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 New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G4390 (προτρέχω) appears 3 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.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he said, This shall be the manner of the king that shall rule over you: he shall take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and among his horsemen, and running before his chariots,
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
let us hasten before thy wife, and prepare the house;
Now one had run afore to Gazara, and told John that his father and brethren were slain, and, quoth he, Ptolemy hath sent to slay thee also.
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4390.
And he said, This shall be the manner of the king that shall rule over you: he shall take your sons, and put them in his chariots, and among his horsemen, and running before his chariots,
And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
let us hasten before thy wife, and prepare the house;
Now one had run afore to Gazara, and told John that his father and brethren were slain, and, quoth he, Ptolemy hath sent to slay thee also.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4390, grouped by book.
Protrecho (Strong's G4390) is a Greek word most simply glossed "outrun". protrecho (prot-rekh'-o) v. 1. to run forward, i.e. outstrip, precede [from G4253 and G5143 (including its alternate)]
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G4390 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4390 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 before and outrun. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4390, with linked reader references where each row is available.