Quick Definition
I anticipate
Strong's Definition
to get an earlier start of, i.e. anticipate
Derivation: from G4253 (πρό) and G5348 (φθάνω);
KJV Usage: prevent
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
προφθάνω: 1 aorist προέφθασα; to come before, to anticipate: αὐτόν προεφθασε λέγων, he spoke before him (R. V. spake first to him), or anticipated his remark, Mat_17:25. (Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plutarch; the Sept..)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
προφθάνω propht hanō 1x
to outstrip, anticipate; to anticipate any one in doing or saying a thing, be beforehand with, Mat_17:25
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
προ -φθάνω ,
[in LXX chiefly for H6923 pi .;]
c . ptcp . (as in cl ., but more freq . the simple φθάνω , q.v. ),
to anticipate: Mat_17:25 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
προφθάνω [page 556]
P Lond 44 .16 (B.C. 161) (= I. p. 34, UPZ i. p. 140) τὴν μὲν θύραν τοῦ ἱεροῦ προφθάσαντός μου καὶ κλείσαντος , when I had anticipated them and shut the temple door, spoken by a man taking refuge : cf. Mat_17:25 .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
προφθάνω fut. -φθάσω fut. -φθήσομαι aor1 -έφθα^σα aor2 προὔφθην "to outrun, anticipate", c. acc., Aesch. , Plat. absol. "to be beforehand", Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
προ-φθάνω
[in LXX chiefly for קָדַם pi. ;]
with ptcp. (as in cl., but more frequently the simple φθάνω, which see),
to anticipate: Mat.17:25.†
(AS)