G4285
προηγέομαι
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").† (AS)
The KJV translates G4285 in the following manner:
preferring (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
προηγέομαι — proēgéomai
προηγέομαι, προηγοῦμαι; to go before and show the way, to go before and lead, to go before as leader (Herodotus 2, 48; often in Xenophon; besides in Aristophanes, Polybius, Plutarch, the Sept., others): τῇ τιμή ἀλλήλους προηγούμενοι, one going before another as an example of deference (A. V. in honor preferring one another (on the dative cf. Winer's Grammar, § 31, 6 a.)), Rom 12:10. The Greek writers connect this verb now with the dative (Aristophanes, Plutarch, 1195; Polybius 6, 53, 8; etc.), now with the genitive (Diodorus 1, 87); see προέρχομαι, 2 a.
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