Lexicon / G4285
προηγέομαι
proēgeomai
  • to prefer
  • to go before

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Glosses: to prefer

προ-ηγέσμαι

[in LXX: Deu.20:9 (בְּרוֹשׁ), Pro.17:14 (פָּנִים), 2Ma.4:40, al. ;]

__1. to go before as leader (in cl. with genitive, dative): Rom.12:10 (Chrys. Vg. al.; see ICC, in l).

__2. In a sense not elsewhere found, ἀλλήλους προηγούμενοι = ἀ. ἡγούμενοι ὑπερέχοντας: Ro, l.with (ICC, cf. 1Th.5:13, Php.2:3 and EV "preferring").†

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Abbott-Smith

Glosses: to go before

to go before