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.

προηγέομαι proē geomai 1 x to go before, precede, lead onward; met. to endeavor to take the lead of, vie with, or, to give precedence to, to prefer, Rom_12:10

προ -ηγέσμαι , [in LXX : Deu_20:9 ( H1265 ), Pro_17:14 ( H6440 ), 2Ma_4:40 , al. ;] 1. to go before as leader (in cl ., c . gen ., dat .): Rom_12:10 (Chrys., Vg ., al. ; v. ICC , in l ). 2. In a sense not elsewhere found, ἀλλήλους προηγούμενοι = ἀ . ἡγούμενοι ὑπερέχοντας : Ro, l.c . ( ICC , cf. 1Th_5:13 , Php_2:3 and EV " preferring ").†

προηγέομαι [page 540] give a lead to : cf. BGU IV. 1193 .11 (B.C. 8) προήγε (= η )μαι τὴν [τού ]τ [ων ] ἐπίδοσιν ποήσεσθαι . In P Lips I. 63 .6 (A.D. 388) παρὰ τοῦ προηγησαμένου Εὐσεβίου the reference is to the immediately preceding praeses (see Wilcken Archiv iv. p. 226 f.). Cf. Syll 737 (= .8 1109) .87 (A.D. 178) ψήφῳ οἱ ἰόβακχοι κρεινέτωσαν προηγουμένου τοῦ ἱερέως . For the otherwise unknown use of the verb in Rom_12:10 in the sense of account others better than or superior to oneself, a partial parallel may be found in the use of the simplex in Chrest. I. 116 .4 (ii/iii A.D.) ἡγοῦ μάλιστα τοὺς πατρῴους καὶ σέ [β ]ου Ἶσιν Σαρᾶπιν το [ὺς με ]γίστους τῶν [θεῶν : cf. 1Th_5:18 . The adv. προηγουμένως , first of all, above all, may be illustrated from such passages as P Oxy XIV. 1770 .4 (late iii/A.D.) προηγου̣[μένως εὔχομε (= αι ) ὑμᾶς ὑγι̣[αίνειν , ib. 1774 .4 (early iv/A.D.) προηγουμένως ἀναγκε (= αῖ )ον ἦν προσαγορεύειν σαι ( l. σε ) : cf. also Vett. Val. p. 264 .10 προηγουμένως δὲ συνορᾶν χρὴ τὸ ὡροσκοπικὸν κέντρον . The part. προηγούμενα used as an adj. meaning principal is common in Epictetus, e.g. i. 20. 1 πᾶσα τέχνη καὶ δύναμις προηγουμένων τινῶν ἐστὶ θεωρητική , every art and faculty has certain principal things of which it is to take cognizance (Matheson).

προηγέομαι fut. ήσομαι Dep. "to go first and lead the way, to be the leader", Hdt. , etc.; τινι "for" a person, i. e. "to guide" him, Ar. , Xen. ; πρ. τὴν ὁδόν Xen. c. gen. "to take the lead of", id=Xen. ;—later, c. acc., NTest. of things, "to go before, precede", Xen. part. προηγούμενος, η, ον, "going first", τὸ πρ. στράτευμα "the van", id=Xen.

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)