Probaino means “be well stricken” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4260 — machamaah in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4260 προβαίνω (probaino) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. probaino (prob-ai'-no) v. 1. to walk forward 2. (literally) to advance It has 21 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include years, going, farther, and age. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
probaino (prob-ai'-no) v. 1. to walk forward 2. (literally) to advance 3. (of age) to age in years [from G4253 and the base of G939] KJV: + be of a great age, go farther (on), be well stricken Root(s): G4253, G939
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to advance
Usage: προ-βαίνω [in LXX chiefly for בּוֹא ;] to go forwards, go on, advance: Mat.4:21, Mrk.1:19. Metaphorical, of age (Gen.18:11, al., Lys., Diod., al.), ἐν τ. ἡμέραις, Luk.1:7, 18 2:36.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render probaino, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4260 (προβαίνω) appears 17 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
9 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in days, and the custom of women ceased with Sarah.
And Abraham was old, advanced in days, and the Lord blessed Abraham in all things.
And the man was exalted, and advancing he increased, till he became very great.
7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Wherefore now we do declare unto thee, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, thou shalt from henceforth have no passage into Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
But she increased more and more in honor, and waxed old in her husband’s house, being a hundred and five years old, and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasseh.
But when their hatred went so far, that by one of Simon’s faction murders were committed,
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4260.
And Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in days, and the custom of women ceased with Sarah.
And Abraham was old, advanced in days, and the Lord blessed Abraham in all things.
And the man was exalted, and advancing he increased, till he became very great.
And the sounds of the trumpet were waxing very much louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice.
And Joshua was old and very advanced in years; and the Lord said to Joshua, Thou art advanced in years, and there is much land left to inherit.
And it came to pass after many days after the Lord had given Israel rest from all his enemies round about, that Joshua was old and advanced in years.
And Joshua called together all the children of Israel, and their elders, and their chiefs, and their judges, and their officers; and said to them, I am old and advanced in years.
And they came as far as Jebus: and the day had far advanced, and the young man said to his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites, and let us lodge in it.
And King David was old and advanced in days, and they covered him with clothes, and he was not warmed.
And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
Wherefore now we do declare unto thee, O lord the king, that if this city be built again, and the walls thereof set up anew, thou shalt from henceforth have no passage into Coelesyria and Phoenicia.
But she increased more and more in honor, and waxed old in her husband’s house, being a hundred and five years old, and made her maid free; so she died in Bethulia: and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasseh.
But when their hatred went so far, that by one of Simon’s faction murders were committed,
Whereupon the common people rising, and being filled with rage, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and began first to offer violence; one Auranus being the leader, a man far gone in years, and no less in folly.
Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well-favored countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine’s flesh.
So when Philip saw that this man increased by little and little, and that things prospered with him still more and more, he wrote unto Ptolemy, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, to yield more aid to the king’s affairs.
Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and inquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day.
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Probaino (Strong's G4260) is a Greek word most simply glossed "be well stricken". probaino (prob-ai'-no) v. 1. to walk forward 2. (literally) to advance
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G4260 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4260 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as years, going, farther, and age. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 9 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4260, with linked reader references where each row is available.