Lexicon ekteinó: to extend Original Word: ἐκτείνωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekteinó Phonetic Spelling: (ek-ti'-no) Short Definition: I stretch out, cast forth Definition: I stretch out (forth), cast forth (as of an anchor), lay hands on. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ek and teinó (to stretch) Definitionto extend NASB Translationextend (1), lay (2), reached (1), stretch (4), stretched (7), stretching (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1614: ἐκτείνωἐκτείνω; future ἐκτενῶ; 1 aorist ἐξέτεινα; (from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Herodotus down); the Sept. common for נָטָה, פָּרַשׂ and שָׁלַח; to stretch out, stretch forth: τήν χεῖρα (often in the Sept.), Matthew 8:3; Matthew 12:13; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 26:51; Mark 1:41; Mark 3:5; Luke 5:13; Luke 6:10; John 21:18; Acts 26:1; with the addition of ἐπί τινα, over, toward, against one — either to point out something, Matthew 12:49, or to lay hold of a person in order to do him violence, Luke 22:53; ἐκτείνειν τήν χεῖρα εἰς ἴασιν, spoken of God, Acts 4:30; ἀγκύρας, properly, to carry forward ( R. V. lay out) the cable to which the anchor is fastened, i. e. to cast anchor ( the idea of extending the cables runs into that of carrying out and dropping the anchors (Hackett); cf. B. D. American edition, p. 3009a last paragraph), Acts 27:30. (Compare: ἐπτείνω, Strong's cast, put forth, stretch out. From ek and teino (to stretch); to extend -- cast, put forth, stretch forth (out). see GREEK ek |
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