Word Summary
probainō: to go forward
Original Word: προβαίνωTransliteration: probainō
Phonetic Spelling: (prob-ah'-ee-no)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to go forward
Meaning: to go forward
Strong's Concordance
advance
From pro and the base of basis; to walk forward, i.e. Advance (literally, or in years) -- + be of a great age, go farther (on), be well stricken.
see GREEK pro
see GREEK basis
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4260: προβαίνωπροβαίνω: perfect participle
προβεβηκώς; 2 aorist participle
προβάς; from
Homer down;
to go forward, go on (cf.
πρό, d.
α.): properly, on foot,
Matthew 4:21;
Mark 1:19; tropically,
ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις προβεβηκώς, advanced in age,
Luke 1:7, 18;
Luke 2:36 (see
ἡμέρα, at the end;
τήν ἡλικίαν, 2 Macc. 4:40 2Macc. 6:18;
Herodian, 2, 7, 7 (5 edition, Bekker);
τῇ ἡλικία,
Lysias, p. 169, 37; (
Diodorus 12, 18);
ταῖς ἡλικιαις,
Diodorus 13, 89; (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 2)).