STRONGS G2975:
λαγχάνω: 2 aorist
ἔλαχον;
1. to obtain by lot (from
Homer down): with the genitive of the thing,
Luke 1:9 (cf.
Buttmann, 269 (231);
Winers Grammar, 319 (299));
to receive by divine allotment, obtain:
τί,
Acts 1:17;
2 Peter 1:1; on the construction of this verb with the genitive and accusative of the thing, see
Matthiae, § 328;
Winers Grammar, 200 (188); (cf.
Buttmann, § 132, 8).
2. to cast lots, determine by lot (
Isocrates, p. 144 b.;
Diodorus 4, 63 (cf. ps.-
Demosthenes in middle, p. 510, 26)):
περί τίνος,
John 19:24.
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