ὑπερεκτείνω
hyperekteínō · G5239 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to overextend, to stretch out beyond, to overstep a limit
To engage in an activity beyond some implied limit, whether in intensity or extent
Examples2 Corinthians 10:14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;
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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: we 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἑαυτοῦhimself, herself, itself 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐnot 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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Contrasting words 1 word
- συστέλλω systéllō · G4958 · to draw near, to draw to a close, to remove
- συστέλλω means to draw together, contract, or limit (the opposite of extending), providing a spatial antonym to ὑπερεκτείνω's notion of extending beyond; one contracts/restrains while the other overextends.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To overextend, to stretch out beyond, to overstep a limit68.78
- 2 Corinthians 10:14 — “For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ.”
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon to extend beyond the prescribed bounds, stretch out beyond measure, stretch out overmuch:…
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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