προβαίνω
to go forward
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (40%)
- Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (40%)
- Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4260 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 1:7 προβεβηκότες perf act ptcp nom pl masc But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
- Luke 1:18 προβεβηκυῖα perf act ptcp nom sg fem Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
- Luke 2:36 προβεβηκυῖα perf act ptcp nom sg fem There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb προβαινω centers on the idea of “to go forward.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. The word gravitates to Luke (60%), then Matthew and Mark. Debuting at Matthew 4:21, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with προ, πορρω and πρηνης. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4260 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 5 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 60%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Further 1×, Going on 1×, He had gone 1×
- American Standard Version: Age 1×, Going 1×, Going on 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Going on 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having gone on 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4260 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4260 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4260 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4260 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to go forwards, go on
Word origin
Derived from προ (pró) (G4253) — before.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4260 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| προβεβηκυῖα probebēkyîa | Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 1:18 | 2 |
| προβὰς probàs | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 4:21 | 2 |
| προβεβηκότες probebēkótes | Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 1:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4260, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- πορρω pórrhō G4206 far
- πρηνης prēnḗs G4248 headlong
- πριν prín G4250 before
- προαγω proágō G4254 to lead forward
- προαιρεομαι proairéomai G4255 to choose before
- προαιτιαομαι proaitiáomai G4256 to charge previously
- προακουω proakoúō G4257 to hear before
- προαμαρτανω proamartánō G4258 to sin before
- προαυλιον proaúlion G4259 porch
- προβαλλω probállō G4261 to throw forward
- προβιβαζω probibázō G4264 to drag forward
- προβλεπω problépō G4265 to foresee
- προγινομαι progínomai G4266 to come before
- προγινωσκω proginṓskō G4267 to foreknow
- προγραφω prográphō G4270 to write before
- προδηλος pródēlos G4271 manifest
- προδιδωμι prodídōmi G4272 to give before
- προειδω proeídō G4275 to foresee
- προελπιζω proelpízō G4276 to hope before
- προεπω proépō G4277 to say before
- προεναρχομαι proenárchomai G4278 to begin before
- προεπαγγελλομαι proepangéllomai G4279 to promise before
- προερεω proeréō G4280 to say before
- προερχομαι proérchomai G4281 to go before
+47 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 75 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word προβαινω appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 6 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 18:11 προβαίνω
- Exodus 19:19 προβαίνω
- Joshua 13:1 προβαίνω
- Judges 19:11 προβαίνω
- 1 Kings 1:1 προβαίνω
- Job 2:9 προβαίνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4260) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 18:11 προβαίνω Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
- Genesis 24:1 προβαίνω Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
- Genesis 26:13 προβαίνω The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
- Exodus 19:19 προβαίνω When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
- Joshua 13:1 προβαίνω Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and Yahweh said to him, You are old and well stricken in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
- Joshua 23:1 προβαίνω It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years;
- Joshua 23:2 προβαίνω that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, I am old and well stricken in years:
- Judges 19:11 προβαίνω When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, Please come and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
- 1 Kings 1:1 προβαίνω Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
- Job 2:9 προβαίνω Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4260) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
