ὀρέγομαι
to stretch out
‘to stretch out’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3713 appears in the Book of 1 Timothy — 2 distinct verses. 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.
1 Timothy
- 1 Timothy 3:1 ὀρέγεται pres mid ind 3sg This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.
- 1 Timothy 6:10 ὀρεγόμενοι pres mid ptcp nom pl masc For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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.
The Greek verb ορεγομαι centers on the idea of “to stretch out.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. 1 Timothy dominates its distribution — 2 of 3 verses. Its earliest occurrence is 1 Timothy 3:1. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3713 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 33%
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: Coveted after 1×, Desire 1×, They desire 1×
- American Standard Version: Reaching after 1×, Seeketh 1×, They desire 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Aspires to be 1×, Craving 1×, They were longing for 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Aspires to 1×, Desiring 1×, They reach for 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3713 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3713 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3713 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3713 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses 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 one's self out in order to touch or to grasp something, to reach after or desire something
- to give one's self up to the love of money
Word origin
Derived from ορος (óros) (G3735) — mountain.
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.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3713 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὀρέγεται orégetai | Verb, Present, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Timothy 3:1 | 1 |
| ὀρέγονται orégontai | Verb, Present, Middle, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Hebrews 11:16 | 1 |
| ὀρεγόμενοι oregómenoi | Verb, Present, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Timothy 6:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3713, 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
- ορεινος oreinós G3714 mountainous
- ορθος orthós G3717 straight
- ορθρος órthros G3722 dawn
- ορνις órnis G3733 bird
- ουρανος ouranós G3772 heaven
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
