prokovptw prokovptw: imperfect proevkopton; future prokoyw; 1 aorist proekoya; 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); Winer's Grammar, 251 (236)), to go forward, advance, proceed; of time: hJ nuvx proevkoyen, the night is advanced (A. V. is far spent) (day is at hand), (Josephus, b. j. 4, 4, 6; (prokoptoush" th'" w{ra") Chariton 2, 3, 3 (p. 38, 1 edition Reiske; tav th'" nuktov", ibid. 2, 3, 4); hJ hJmevra prokoptei, 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, (not Tdf.) (Diodorus 11 87); ejn with a dative of the thing, ibid. Tdf.; (Diod (excerpt. de virt. et vitiis), p. 554, 69; Antoninus 1, 17); ejpiv plei'on, further, (Diodorus 14, 98); ejpiv plei'on ajsebeiva", ; ejpiv tov cei'ron, will grow worse, i. e. will make progress in wickedness, (tw'n @Ierosoluvmwn pavqh proukopte kaq! hJmevran ejpiv tov cei'ron, Josephus, b. j. 6, 1, 1).*