Original Word: ἐπεκτείνομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epekteinó
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ek-ti'-nom-ahee)
Definition: to extend, mid. to stretch forward
Usage: I strain after, stretch forward.

1901 epekteínomai (from 1909 /epí, "on, fitting" intensifying 1614 /ekteínō, "extend") – properly, extend (lay hold of) what is divinely acceptable (note the force of the prefix, epi).

1901 /epekteínomai ("aptly stretching intensely towards") is used only in Phil 3:13. It refers to the believer straining forward to reach "the full-impact resurrection" out from the realm of death given to them at Christ's return.

Word Origin
from epi and ekteinó
Definition
to extend, mid. to stretch forward
NASB Translation
reaching forward (1).

STRONGS NT 1901: ἐπεκτείνω

ἐπεκτείνω: (present middle participle ἐπεκτεινόμενος); to stretch out to or toward; middle, to stretch (oneself) forward to: with the dative of thing indicating the direction (Winer's Grammar, § 52, 4, 7), Philippians 3:13 (14) (see ἔμπροσθεν, 1 at the end).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

reach forth.

Middle voice from epi and ekteino; to stretch (oneself) forward upon -- reach forth.

see GREEK epi

see GREEK ekteino

Forms and Transliterations

επεκτεινομενος επεκτεινόμενος ἐπεκτεινόμενος επελπιζέτω επήλπισα επήλπισάς επήλπισεν epekteinomenos epekteinómenos

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