Lexical Summary oregō: to stretch out, to reach after, to yearn for Original Word: ὀρέγωTransliteration: oregō Phonetic Spelling: (or-eg'-om-ahee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to stretch out, to reach after, to yearn for Meaning: to stretch out, to reach after, to yearn for Strong's Concordance covet after, desire. Middle voice of apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary (compare oros); to stretch oneself, i.e. Reach out after (long for) -- covet after, desire. see GREEK oros Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3713: ὀρέγωὀρέγω: (cf. Latinrego, German recken,strecken,reichen (English reach; Curtius, § 153)); from Homer down; to stretch forth, as χεῖρα, Homer, Iliad 15, 371, etc.; present middle (cf. Winers Grammar, p. 252 (237) note), to stretch oneself out in order to touch or to grasp something, to reach after or desire something: with a genitive of the thing, 1 Timothy 3:1; Hebrews 11:16; φιλαργυριας, to give oneself up to the love of money (not quite accurately since φιλαργυριας is itself the ὄρεξις; (cf. Ellicott at the passage)), 1 Timothy 6:10. |
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