Strong G3713ὀρέγω
to aspire
- Transliteration
- oregomai
- Pronunciation
- or-eg'-om-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Middle voice of apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary (compare G3735); to stretch oneself that is reach out after (long for): - covet after desire.
Detailed definition
ὀρέγω
[in Sm.: Job.8:20, Eze.16:49 *;]
to reach, stretch out; pass. and mid., to stretch oneself out, reach forth; metaphorically, to reach after, grasp at, aspire to: with genitive of thing(s), 1Ti.3:1, Heb.11:16; φιλαργυρίας (see Ellic. and CGT, in l), 1Ti.6:10.†
SYN.: ἐπιθυμέω, to desire (which see) (AS)
[in Sm.: Job.8:20, Eze.16:49 *;]
to reach, stretch out; pass. and mid., to stretch oneself out, reach forth; metaphorically, to reach after, grasp at, aspire to: with genitive of thing(s), 1Ti.3:1, Heb.11:16; φιλαργυρίας (see Ellic. and CGT, in l), 1Ti.6:10.†
SYN.: ἐπιθυμέω, to desire (which see) (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3713 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- desire2
- covet1
- while1
First verses
- 1 Timothy 3:1This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
- 1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- Hebrews 11:16But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ὀρέγω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.366, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1710 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; Ionic dialect and later Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.2, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 497b27, etc.)]: imperfect ὤρεγον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.240, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 4.126)]: future ὀρέξω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.327, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 902)]: aorist ὤρεξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.406, Trag. (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 846, etc.), and sometimes in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 117b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.29)]:—middle and passive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.506, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65, etc.)]: future ὀρέξομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 353, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 486a)] (ἐπ-): aorist ὠρεξάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.99, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 16, etc.: rare in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.15)]; also ὠρέχθην[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 16, “Ages.” 1.4, “Smp.” 8.35, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 17, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 7, “fragment” 187, as well as in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus (“Hel.” 1238) (not in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus))]: perfect ὤρεγμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὀστέων φύσιος” 18)]; reduplicate 3rd.pers. plural ὀρωρέχαται, pluperfect -έχατο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.834, 11.26.)] —Cf. ὀρέγνυμι, ὀριγνάομαι:—reach, stretch, stretch out, χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.366; εἰς οὐρανόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.371, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.527; χεῖρας ἐμοὶ ὀρέγοντας, in entreaty, 12.257, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 36; μοι.. λεχέων ἐκ χεῖρας ὄρεξας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.743; πρός τινα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.240, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 846, etc.)]; Ὅμηρον.., ἐφ᾽ ὃν πᾶσαι χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγουσι πόλεις, to claim him, [Refs (“APl.” 4.294.)]
2 reach out, hold out, hand, give, κοτύλην καὶ πύρνον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.312; δέπας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.102; ὁπποτέροισι πατὴρ Ζεὺς κῦδος ὀρέξῃ 5.33, compare 17.453, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 433; ἠέ τῳ εὖχος ὀρέξομεν, ἦέ τις ἡμῖν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.328, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1203 (Lyric poetry); ὀ. πλοῦτόν τινι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.110; τέλος ἔμπεδον [prev. author] “N.” 7.58; ὤρεξε τὴν κύλικα τῷ Σωκράτει 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 117b)]; later βοήθειαν ὀρέξαι τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις extend help, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 902.11 (5th c.AD).)]
II middle and passive,
II.1 absolutely, stretch oneself out, stretch forth one's hand, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.53; ἀνδρὸς.. ποτὶ στόμα χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.506 (but χεῖρας ὀρεξαμένου)]having lent a helping hand, [Refs (epigram Gr. 448.4 (from Syria)))]; ὀρεξαμένη ἀπὸ δίφρου [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 456)]; ὠρέξατο χερσὶ φίλῃσι, χειρὶ σκαιῇ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.99, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 178)]; ἔγχει ὀρεξάσθω let him lunge with the spear (from the chariot), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.307; πρόσθεν Ἄρης ὠρέξαθ᾽ ὑπὲρ ζυγὸν.. ἔγχεϊ χαλκείῳ 5.851)]; ποσσὶν ὀρωρέχαται πολεμίζειν, of horses, they galloped to the fight, [Refs (16.834)]; ὀρέξατ᾽ ἰών he stretched himself as he went, i.e. made a stride, [Refs (13.20)]; ὀρωρέχατο προτὶ δειρήν were stretched out towards the neck, [Refs (11.26)]; of fish, rise at the bait, καί τις τῶν τραφερῶν ὠρέξατο [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.44; for 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1111, see at {ὄρεγμα} I.1.)]
II.2 with genitive, reach at or to a thing, grasp at, οὗ παιδὸς ὀρέξατο he reached out to his child, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.466, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.392)]; in a hostile sense, aim at, assail, hit, τοῦ δ᾽ ἀντίθεος Θρασυμήδης ἔφθη ὀρεξάμενος.. ὦμον hit him first on the shoulder, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.322; [prev. work] 314, a _genitive_ _person_ must be supplied, ἔφθη ὀρεξάμενος πρυμνὸν σκέλο; so in 23.805 ὁππότερός κε φθῇσιν ὀρεξάμενος χρόα καλόν)]; δηΐων ὀρέγοιτ᾽ ἐγγύθεν ἱστάμενος [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 12.12)]; also of a suppliant, τί χρῆμα θηρῶσ᾽ ἱκέτις ὠρέχθης ἐμο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1238.)]
II.2.b metaphorically, reach after, grasp at, yearn for, γάμων [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Ion” 842; τῶν μεγίστων [prev. author] “fragment” 240; ἀπεόντων 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 202; ζωῆς [prev. author] 205)]: frequently in Attic dialect Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.12, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.42, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 439b, 485d, etc.; ὀ. τοῦ πρῶτος ἕκαστος γίγνεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65)]: so with infinitive, πόλιν ὠρέξατ᾽ οἰκεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 16; ὀ. τοιοῦτος γενέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 326a; οὐδέποτε ὠρέχθην τοῖς πολλοῖς ἀρέσκειν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 187)]: also, absolutely, yearn, desire, πάσῃσιν ὀρέξαιτο πραπίδεσσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 129.4; θυμὸς ὀρέξατο γηθοσύνῃσιν 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.878; ὀρεγόμεθα κατὰ τὴν βούλευσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1113a12)]; compare ὀρεκτός, ὄρεξις.
II.3 with accusative, σῖτόν τ᾽ ὄρεξαι take food, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 303 (variant{σίτων}))]; αἰώρημα διὰ δέρης ὀρέξομαι I will put the noose on my neck, [Refs ([prev. author] “Hel.” 353 (Lyric poetry).)]
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.366, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1710 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; Ionic dialect and later Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.2, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 497b27, etc.)]: imperfect ὤρεγον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.240, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 4.126)]: future ὀρέξω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.327, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 902)]: aorist ὤρεξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.406, Trag. (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 846, etc.), and sometimes in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 117b, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.29)]:—middle and passive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.506, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65, etc.)]: future ὀρέξομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 353, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 486a)] (ἐπ-): aorist ὠρεξάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.99, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 16, etc.: rare in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.15)]; also ὠρέχθην[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 16, “Ages.” 1.4, “Smp.” 8.35, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 17, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 7, “fragment” 187, as well as in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus (“Hel.” 1238) (not in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus))]: perfect ὤρεγμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὀστέων φύσιος” 18)]; reduplicate 3rd.pers. plural ὀρωρέχαται, pluperfect -έχατο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.834, 11.26.)] —Cf. ὀρέγνυμι, ὀριγνάομαι:—reach, stretch, stretch out, χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.366; εἰς οὐρανόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.371, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.527; χεῖρας ἐμοὶ ὀρέγοντας, in entreaty, 12.257, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 36; μοι.. λεχέων ἐκ χεῖρας ὄρεξας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.743; πρός τινα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.240, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 846, etc.)]; Ὅμηρον.., ἐφ᾽ ὃν πᾶσαι χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγουσι πόλεις, to claim him, [Refs (“APl.” 4.294.)]
2 reach out, hold out, hand, give, κοτύλην καὶ πύρνον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.312; δέπας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.102; ὁπποτέροισι πατὴρ Ζεὺς κῦδος ὀρέξῃ 5.33, compare 17.453, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 433; ἠέ τῳ εὖχος ὀρέξομεν, ἦέ τις ἡμῖν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.328, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1203 (Lyric poetry); ὀ. πλοῦτόν τινι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.110; τέλος ἔμπεδον [prev. author] “N.” 7.58; ὤρεξε τὴν κύλικα τῷ Σωκράτει 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 117b)]; later βοήθειαν ὀρέξαι τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις extend help, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“POxy.” 902.11 (5th c.AD).)]
II middle and passive,
II.1 absolutely, stretch oneself out, stretch forth one's hand, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.53; ἀνδρὸς.. ποτὶ στόμα χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.506 (but χεῖρας ὀρεξαμένου)]having lent a helping hand, [Refs (epigram Gr. 448.4 (from Syria)))]; ὀρεξαμένη ἀπὸ δίφρου [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 456)]; ὠρέξατο χερσὶ φίλῃσι, χειρὶ σκαιῇ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.99, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 178)]; ἔγχει ὀρεξάσθω let him lunge with the spear (from the chariot), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.307; πρόσθεν Ἄρης ὠρέξαθ᾽ ὑπὲρ ζυγὸν.. ἔγχεϊ χαλκείῳ 5.851)]; ποσσὶν ὀρωρέχαται πολεμίζειν, of horses, they galloped to the fight, [Refs (16.834)]; ὀρέξατ᾽ ἰών he stretched himself as he went, i.e. made a stride, [Refs (13.20)]; ὀρωρέχατο προτὶ δειρήν were stretched out towards the neck, [Refs (11.26)]; of fish, rise at the bait, καί τις τῶν τραφερῶν ὠρέξατο [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.44; for 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1111, see at {ὄρεγμα} I.1.)]
II.2 with genitive, reach at or to a thing, grasp at, οὗ παιδὸς ὀρέξατο he reached out to his child, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.466, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.392)]; in a hostile sense, aim at, assail, hit, τοῦ δ᾽ ἀντίθεος Θρασυμήδης ἔφθη ὀρεξάμενος.. ὦμον hit him first on the shoulder, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.322; [prev. work] 314, a _genitive_ _person_ must be supplied, ἔφθη ὀρεξάμενος πρυμνὸν σκέλο; so in 23.805 ὁππότερός κε φθῇσιν ὀρεξάμενος χρόα καλόν)]; δηΐων ὀρέγοιτ᾽ ἐγγύθεν ἱστάμενος [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 12.12)]; also of a suppliant, τί χρῆμα θηρῶσ᾽ ἱκέτις ὠρέχθης ἐμο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1238.)]
II.2.b metaphorically, reach after, grasp at, yearn for, γάμων [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Ion” 842; τῶν μεγίστων [prev. author] “fragment” 240; ἀπεόντων 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 202; ζωῆς [prev. author] 205)]: frequently in Attic dialect Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.2.12, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.42, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 439b, 485d, etc.; ὀ. τοῦ πρῶτος ἕκαστος γίγνεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65)]: so with infinitive, πόλιν ὠρέξατ᾽ οἰκεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 16; ὀ. τοιοῦτος γενέσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 326a; οὐδέποτε ὠρέχθην τοῖς πολλοῖς ἀρέσκειν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 187)]: also, absolutely, yearn, desire, πάσῃσιν ὀρέξαιτο πραπίδεσσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 129.4; θυμὸς ὀρέξατο γηθοσύνῃσιν 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.878; ὀρεγόμεθα κατὰ τὴν βούλευσιν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1113a12)]; compare ὀρεκτός, ὄρεξις.
II.3 with accusative, σῖτόν τ᾽ ὄρεξαι take food, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 303 (variant{σίτων}))]; αἰώρημα διὰ δέρης ὀρέξομαι I will put the noose on my neck, [Refs ([prev. author] “Hel.” 353 (Lyric poetry).)]