Word Summary
protrechō: to run forward, run in advance
Original Word: προτρέχωTransliteration: protrechō
Phonetic Spelling: (prot-rekh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to run forward, run in advance
Meaning: to run forward, run in advance
Strong's Concordance
outrun, run before.
From pro and trecho (including its alternate); to run forward, i.e. Outstrip, precede -- outrun, run before.
see GREEK pro
see GREEK trecho
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4390: προτρέχωπροτρέχω: 2 aorist
προεδραμον;
to run before, to outrun:
John 20:4; with
ἔμπροσθεν added, i. e. ahead, in advance (
R. V. 'to run on before'), cf.
Winers Grammar, 603 (561); (
Buttmann, § 151, 27),
Luke 19:4;
ἔμπροσθεν with the genitive of a person Tobit 11 (
1 Samuel 8:11;
Xenophon,
Isocrates,
Theophrastus, others.)