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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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προβαίνω

Strong’s: G4260

Associated OET lemmas: προβαίνω

Notes: It is possible to analyze προβαίνω and προέρχομαι[a] as involving a reference point in space, in that the person’s initial position could constitute such a point. But it is equally possible to interpret the movement as being primarily related to the direction in which a person has already been moving.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: προβαίνω; aor.ptc.; προβάς; προβαίνω; pf.; προβέβηκα

Related lemmas: βαίνω

Sense 1: to move on, to go on, to go ahead

Semantic entry: 15.16

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Move, Come/Go

Definition: to continue to move forward{N:001}

Sense 2: to be old

Semantic entry: 67.99

Semantic domains: Time

Subdomains: Duration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to advance in days) to be quite advanced in age

Collocations: προβαίνω ἐν ἡμέραις

Show passage in OET: LUK 1:7

OET-RV LUK 1:7

7 Elisheva had never been able to have a child, so there was just the two of them as they were now getting older.

OET-LV LUK 1:7

7 And was to_them no child, as_much_as the Elisabet was barren, and both were having_advanced in the days of_them.
Show passage in OET: LUK 1:18

OET-RV LUK 1:18

18 Zekaryah asked the messenger, “How will I know if you’re telling the truth, because I’m an older man and my wife is also getting old?”

OET-LV LUK 1:18

18 And Zaⱪarias said to the messenger:
By what ˓will˒_I_be_knowing this?
For/Because I am an_older_man, and the wife of_me having_advanced in the days of_her.

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All 3 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: OET LUK 1:7 · OET LUK 1:18 · OET LUK 2:36