G4284
G4284 — προέχομαι
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
proechomai (pro-ekh'-om-ai) v.
1. to hold oneself before others
2. (figuratively) to excel
[middle voice from G4253 and G2192]
KJV: be better
Root(s): G4253, G2192
TWOT
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KJV Renderings
be better
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
προέχω ((from Homer down)): present middle 1 person plural προεχόμεθα; to have before or in advance of another, to have pre-eminence over another, to excel, to surpass; often so in secular authors from (Sophocles and) Herodotus down; middle to excel to one’s advantage (cf. Kühner, § 375, 1); to surpass in excellences which can be passed to one’s credit: Rom 3:9; it does not make against this force of the middle in the present passage that the use is nowhere else met with, nor is there any objection to an interpretation which has commended itself to a great many and which the context plainly demands. (But on this difficult word see especially James Morison, Critical Expos. of the Third Chap. of Romans, p. 93ff; Gifford in the ’Speaker’s Commentary,’ p. 96; Winer’s Grammar, § 38, 6; § 39 at the end, cf. p. 554 (516).)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
προέχω (be better)
Romans 3:9
- KJV: What then are we better No in no wise for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin
- GK: τι ούν προεχόμεθα ου πάντως προητιασάμεθα γαρ Ιουδαίους τε και Έλληνας πάντας υφ΄ αμαρτίαν είναι