προκόπτω: imperfect
προέκοπτον; future
προκοψω; 1 aorist
προεκοψα;
to beat forward;
1. to lengthen out by hammering (as a smith forges metals); metaphorically,
to promote, forward, further;
Herodotus,
Euripides,
Thucydides,
Xenophon, others.
2. from
Polybius on intransitively (cf.
Buttmann, 145 (127);
Winers Grammar, 251 (236)),
to go forward, advance, proceed; of time:
ἡ νύξ προέκοψεν, the night is advanced (
A. V. is far spent) (day is at hand),
Romans 13:12 (
Josephus,
b. j. 4, 4, 6; (
προκοπτουσης τῆς ὥρας)
Chariton 2, 3, 3 (p. 38, 1 edition Reiske;
τά τῆς νυκτός, ibid. 2, 3, 4);
ἡ ἡμέρα προκοπτει,
Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho, p. 277 d.; Latin
procedere is used in the same way,
Livy 28, 15;
Sallust, Jug. 21, 52, 109). metaphorically,
to increase, make progress: with a dative of the thing in which one grows,
Luke 2:52 (not
Tdf.) (
Diodorus 11 87);
ἐν with a dative of the thing, ibid.
Tdf.;
Galatians 1:14 (Diod (excerpt. de virt. et vitiis), p. 554, 69;
Antoninus 1, 17);
ἐπί πλεῖον, further,
2 Timothy 3:9 (
Diodorus 14, 98);
ἐπί πλεῖον ἀσεβείας,
2 Timothy 2:16;
ἐπί τό χεῖρον, will grow worse, i. e. will make progress in wickedness,
2 Timothy 3:13 (
τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων πάθη προυκοπτε καθ' ἡμέραν ἐπί τό χεῖρον,
Josephus,
b. j. 6, 1, 1).
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