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#05177
τυγχάνω
tynchánō
Sounds like toong•khan'•o
Akin to the base of #05088 (τίκτω / tíktō) through the idea of effecting; properly, to affect; or (specially), to hit or light upon (as a mark to be reached), i.e. (transitively) to attain or secure an object or end, or (intransitively) to happen (as if meeting with); but in the latter application only impersonal (with #01487 (εἰ / ei)), i.e. perchance; or (present participle) as adjective, usual (as if commonly met with, with #03756 (οὐ / ou), extraordinary), neuter (as adverb) perhaps; or (with another verb) as adverb, by accident (as it were).
Derived probably for an obsolete (for which the middle voice of another alternate (to make ready or bring to pass) is used in certain tenses.
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The text is from Dictionary of Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D. (1890). Text out of copyright.
The digitized text we’ve used was from Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML with real Greek by Dr. Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (ulrikp.org, Scripture Systems ApS). Text licensed under Creative Commons CC0.
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