Greek verb · G3713
ὀρέγομαι
oregomaior-eg'-om-ahee
to aspire
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: orégomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3713is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3713
to stretch oneself, i.e. reach out after (long for)
The King James renders it: covet after, desire.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
oregomai is rendered "to aspire". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Timothy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Timothy 3:1This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
1 Timothy 3:1ὀρέγεται
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in 1 Timothy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- aspires to1
- stretching after1
- they stretch forward to1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὀρέγεται1
- ὀρεγόμενοι1
- ὀρέγονται1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-PMI-3P
- verb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PMI-3S
- verb · present middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PMP-NPM
1 Timothy
two uses
This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
- ὀρέγεταιoregetaiverb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: aspires to
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
- ὀρεγόμενοιoregomenoiverb · present middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: stretching after
Hebrews
one use
Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
- ὀρέγονταιoregontaiverb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they stretch forward to
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.