Strong's #5177: tugchano (pronounced toong-khan'-o)
probably for an obsolete tucho (for which the middle voice of another alternate teucho (to make ready or bring to pass) is used in certain tenses; akin to the base of 5088 through the idea of effecting; properly, to affect; or (specially), to hit or light upon (as a mark to be reached), i.e. (transitively) to attain or secure an object or end, or (intransitively) to happen (as if meeting with); but in the latter application only impersonal (with 1487), i.e. perchance; or (present participle) as adjective, usual (as if commonly met with, with 3756, extraordinary), neuter (as adverb) perhaps; or (with another verb) as adverb, by accident (as it were):--be, chance, enjoy, little, obtain, X refresh...self, + special. Compare 5180.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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tugchanō
1) to hit the mark
1a) of one discharging a javelin or arrow
2) to reach, attain, obtain, get, become master of
3) to happen, chance, fall out
3a) to specify, to take a case, as for example
4) to meet one
5) of he who meets one or presents himself unsought, any chance, ordinary, common person
6) to chance to be
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: probably for an obsolete tucho (for which the middle voice of another alternate teucho [to make ready or bring to pass] is used in certain tenses, akin to the base of G5088 through the idea of effecting
Citing in TDNT: 8:238, 1191
Usage:
This word is used 13 times:
Luke 10:30: "of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead."
Luke 20:35: "But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection"
Acts 19:11: "And God wrought special miracles by the"
Acts 24:2: "him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds"
Acts 26:22: "Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this"
Acts 27:3: "to go unto his friends to refresh himself."
Acts 28:2: "showed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire,"
1 Corinthians 14:10: "There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world,"
1 Corinthians 15:37: "bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other"
1 Corinthians 16:6: "And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you,"
2 Timothy 2:10: "for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation"
Hebrews 8:6: "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is"
Hebrews 11:35: "not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:"
