ἐκτείνω
to stretch out
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 7 times (44%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 3 times (19%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (13%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 2 times (13%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (6%)
- Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 16 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1614 appears — 14 distinct verses across 5 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 5 verses
- Matthew 8:3 ἐκτείνας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
- Matthew 12:13 ἔκτεινόν ἐξέτεινεν aor act impv 2sg aor act ind 3sg Then he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.
- Matthew 12:49 ἐκτείνας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!
- Matthew 14:31 ἐκτείνας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"
- Matthew 26:51 ἐκτείνας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 1:41 ἐκτείνας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, "I want to. Be made clean."
- Mark 3:5 ἔκτεινον ἐξέτεινεν aor act impv 2sg aor act ind 3sg When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 5:13 ἐκτείνας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately the leprosy left him.
- Luke 6:10 ἔκτεινον aor act impv 2sg He looked around at them all, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.
- Luke 22:53 ἐξετείνατε aor act ind 2pl When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
John 1 verse
Acts 3 verses
- Acts 4:30 ἐκτείνειν pres act inf while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."
- Acts 26:1 ἐκτείνας aor act ptcp nom sg masc Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
- Acts 27:30 ἐκτείνειν pres act inf As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
εκτεινω — transliterated ekteínō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to stretch out.” It first appears in Matthew 8:3. With 14 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (36% of all occurrences). From the same root come εκ, εκβαλλω and εκβασις. See the sense tree, 14-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1614 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #726
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 726 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Gospels 11 verses · 79%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 43%
- Johannine 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Stretch forth 3×, Put forth 2×, Stretched forth 2×
- American Standard Version: Forth 3×, He stretched forth 3×, Stretch forth 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Stretch out 4×, Reached out 3×, He stretched out 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stretch out 4×, Having reached out 3×, Having stretched out 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1614 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1614 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1614 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1614 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to stretch out, stretch forth
Word origin
Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.
From G1537 and τείνω teinō (to stretch ); to extend : - cast put forth stretch forth (out).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G1614 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐκτείνας ekteínas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 8:3 | 7 |
| ἐκτείνειν ekteínein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Acts 4:30 | 2 |
| ἐξέτεινεν exéteinen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 12:13 | 2 |
| ἔκτεινον ékteinon | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Mark 3:5 | 2 |
| ἐκτενεῖς ekteneîs | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | John 21:18 | 1 |
| ἐξετείνατε exeteínate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 22:53 | 1 |
| ἔκτεινόν ékteinón | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Matthew 12:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1614, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εκβαλλω ekbállō G1544 to cast out
- εκβασις ékbasis G1545 exit
- εκγαμιζω ekgamízō G1547 to give in marriage
- εκγαμισκω ekgamískō G1548 to give in marriage
- εκγονον ékgonon G1549 offspring
- εκδαπαναω ekdapanáō G1550 to spend
- εκδεχομαι ekdéchomai G1551 to receive
- εκδηλος ékdēlos G1552 evident
- εκδημεω ekdēméō G1553 to depart
- εκδιδωμι ekdídōmi G1554 to give out
- εκδιηγεομαι ekdiēgéomai G1555 to relate
- εκδικος ékdikos G1558 without justice
- εκδιωκω ekdiṓkō G1559 to banish
- εκδοτος ékdotos G1560 delivered up
- εκδυω ekdýō G1562 to put off
- εκζητεω ekzētéō G1567 to seek out
- εκθαμβος ékthambos G1569 astonished
- εκθετος ékthetos G1570 exposed
- εκκαθαιρω ekkathaírō G1571 to cleanse
- εκκαιω ekkaíō G1572 to burn
- εκκακεω ekkakéō G1573 to be exhausted
- εκκεντεω ekkentéō G1574 to pierce
- εκκλαω ekkláō G1575 to cut off
- εκκλειω ekkleíō G1576 to shut out
+88 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 115 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εκτεινω appears 114 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 111 verses in 23 books.
- 114
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 111
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 23 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 23 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 3:22 ἐκτείνω
- Exodus 4:4 ἐκτείνω
- Numbers 14:30 ἐκτείνω
- Deuteronomy 25:11 ἐκτείνω
- Joshua 8:18 ἐκτείνω
- Judges 3:21 ἐκτείνω
- 1 Samuel 1:16 ἐκτείνω
- 2 Samuel 6:6 ἐκτείνω
- 1 Kings 13:4 ἐκτείνω
- 2 Kings 6:7 ἐκτείνω
- 1 Chronicles 13:9 ἐκτείνω
- Ezra 6:12 ἐκτείνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1614) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 111. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:22 ἐκτείνω Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 8:9 ἐκτείνω but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him into the ark; for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ark.
- Genesis 14:22 ἐκτείνω Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- Genesis 19:10 ἐκτείνω But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
- Genesis 22:10 ἐκτείνω Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
- Genesis 48:14 ἐκτείνω Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
- Exodus 4:4 ἐκτείνω Yahweh said to Moses, "Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail." He put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.
- Exodus 6:8 ἐκτείνω I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.'"
- Exodus 7:5 ἐκτείνω The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."
- Exodus 7:19 ἐκτείνω Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
- Exodus 8:1 ἐκτείνω Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, "This is what Yahweh says, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Exodus 8:2 ἐκτείνω If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:
- Exodus 8:12 ἐκτείνω Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.
- Exodus 8:13 ἐκτείνω Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
- Exodus 9:22 ἐκτείνω Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt."
- Exodus 9:23 ἐκτείνω Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 10:12 ἐκτείνω Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."
- Exodus 10:21 ἐκτείνω Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."
- Exodus 10:22 ἐκτείνω Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
- Exodus 14:16 ἐκτείνω Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
- Exodus 14:21 ἐκτείνω Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Exodus 14:26 ἐκτείνω Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."
- Exodus 14:27 ἐκτείνω Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
- Exodus 15:12 ἐκτείνω You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.
- Exodus 25:20 ἐκτείνω The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
- Exodus 38:19 ἐκτείνω Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 40:19 ἐκτείνω He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tent above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 14:30 ἐκτείνω surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Deuteronomy 25:11 ἐκτείνω When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
- Joshua 8:18 ἐκτείνω Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
- Joshua 8:19 ἐκτείνω The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.
- Judges 3:21 ἐκτείνω Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:
- Judges 5:26 ἐκτείνω She put her hand to the tent-pin, Her right hand to the workmen's hammer; With the hammer she struck Sisera, she struck through his head; Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.
- Judges 6:21 ἐκτείνω Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight.
- Judges 9:33 ἐκτείνω and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and rush on the city; and, behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.
- Judges 9:44 ἐκτείνω Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field, and struck them.
- Judges 15:15 ἐκτείνω He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.
- Judges 20:37 ἐκτείνω The liers-in-wait hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
- 1 Samuel 1:16 ἐκτείνω Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
- 1 Samuel 14:27 ἐκτείνω But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
- 1 Samuel 17:29 ἐκτείνω David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
- 2 Samuel 6:6 ἐκτείνω When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen stumbled.
- 2 Samuel 15:5 ἐκτείνω It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
- 2 Samuel 24:16 ἐκτείνω When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 1 Kings 13:4 ἐκτείνω It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. His hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to him.
- 2 Kings 6:7 ἐκτείνω He said, Take it up to you. So he put out his hand, and took it.
- 2 Kings 21:13 ἐκτείνω I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
- 1 Chronicles 13:9 ἐκτείνω When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
- 1 Chronicles 13:10 ἐκτείνω The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before God.
- 1 Chronicles 21:16 ἐκτείνω David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1614) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
