STRONGS G1614:
ἐκτείνω; future
ἐκτενῶ; 1 aorist
ἐξέτεινα; [from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Herodotus down];
Sept. common for
נָטָה,
פָּרַשׂ and
שָׁלַח;
to stretch out, stretch forth:
τὴν 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, towards, 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;
ἐκτ.
τ.
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. 3009
a last paragraph],
Acts 27:30. [
Compare: ἐπ-,
ὑπερεκτείνω.]
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