προπέμπω
to send before
‘to send before’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive 2 times (22%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4311 appears — 9 distinct verses across 6 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.
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 15:3 προπεμφθέντες aor pass ptcp nom pl masc They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
- Acts 20:38 προέπεμπον impf act ind 3pl sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.
- Acts 21:5 προπεμπόντων pres act ptcp gen pl masc When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 16:6 προπέμψητε aor act subj 2pl But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.
- 1 Corinthians 16:11 προπέμψατε aor act impv 2pl Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Titus 1 verse
3 John 1 verse
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 προπεμπω centers on the idea of “to send before.” Its earliest occurrence is Acts 15:3. It turns up in 9 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Acts (33%), then 1 Corinthians and Romans. Thayer's distinguishes 3 senses for it. 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 G4311 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 3 verses 33%
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 22%
- Romans 1 verse 11%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 56%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 33%
- Johannine 1 verse · 11%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 11%
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: Be brought on my way 2×, Journey 2×
- American Standard Version: Be brought on my way 1×, Be set forward on my journey 1×, Being brought on their way 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Accompanied 1×, Can help 1×, Equip 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be sent ahead 2×, Way 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4311 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4311 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4311 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4311 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 3 senses 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 send before
- to send forward, bring on the way, accompany or escort
- to set one forward, fit him out with the requisites for a journey
Word origin
Derived from προ (pró) (G4253) — before.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G4311 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| προπεμφθῆναι propemphthē̂nai | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive | Romans 15:24 | 2 |
| προέπεμπον proépempon | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 20:38 | 1 |
| προπέμψας propémpsas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 3 John 1:6 | 1 |
| προπέμψατε propémpsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 16:11 | 1 |
| προπέμψητε propémpsēte | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 16:6 | 1 |
| προπεμπόντων propempóntōn | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Acts 21:5 | 1 |
| προπεμφθέντες propemphthéntes | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 15:3 | 1 |
| πρόπεμψον própempson | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Titus 3:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4311, 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
- προβαινω probaínō G4260 to go forward
- 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
+47 more words share this root (not shown).
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 74 — 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 προπεμπω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 1 book.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 12:20 προπέμπω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4311) 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 12:20 προπέμπω Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
- Genesis 18:16 προπέμπω The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4311) 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.
