ὀρέγομαι
orégomai · G3713 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to strive to attain, to aspire to, to eagerly long for
To eagerly desire to accomplish some goal or purpose
Examples1 Timothy 3:1 It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
Hebrews 11:16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
- Not stated: they 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐπισκοπήcoming 1
- κρεῖσσονbetter 1
- ὅςwho, which, that 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- νῦνnow 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐπιποθέω epipothéō · G1971 · to long for, to deeply desire, deep desire
- ἐπιποθέω conveys earnest longing or yearning, often with emotional intensity. Like ὀρέγομαι, it expresses reaching out after something desired, though ἐπιποθέω typically has a stronger emotional coloring.
In the other Testament 2 words
- חָמַד châmad · H2530 · to desire, to want to have, desirable
- Hebrew חָמַד shares the core sense of desiring or longing for something, often used for covetous desire or eager longing (cf. Exod 20:17; Ps 68:16). Both express mental/volitional reaching toward an object of desire.
- אָוָה ʼâvâh · H183 · to crave, to desire, to long for
- Hebrew אָוָה conveys strong longing or craving (cf. Deut 5:21; Ps 132:13-14). Like ὀρέγομαι, it expresses an eager reaching out after something desired.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To strive to attain, to aspire to, to eagerly long for25.15
- ὀρέγομαι describes a strong, positive aspiration toward a worthy goal, as Paul commends the desire for church leadership: “if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.” (1 Timothy 3:1)
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (cf. Latinrego, German recken,strecken,reichen (English reach; Curtius, § 153)); from…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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