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προπορ-εύω ,
A.cause to go before, Ael.NA10.22:—Pass., with aor. Med., go before, Aen.Tact. 23.10, etc.; “π. τινός” Arist.Mir.844b5, Act.Ap.7.40; “πρὸ προσώπου τινός” LXX Ex.32.34, Ev.Luc.1.76; “πρὸ τοῦ στρατοῦ” Arr.An.5.15.1; “π. ἐπὶ δὔ ἡμέραις” Plb.3.52.8; οἱ προπορευόμενοι the van, Id.2.27.2, etc.; ἡ προπορευομένη, = πρόπολος, Seleuc. ap. Ath.6.267c; of a river, flow onward, LXX Ge.2.14(v.l.).
2. come forward, Plb.1.80.8, etc.
3. to be promoted, advance, “πρὸς τὴν στρατηγίαν” Id.28.6.9, cf. 2.4.2.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Old Testament, Exodus, 32.34
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.80.8
    • Polybius, Histories, 28.6.9
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.27.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.4.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.52.8
    • New Testament, Acts, 7.40
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 2.14
    • New Testament, Luke, 1.76
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 5.15.1
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 10.22
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