Original: ὀρέγομαι

Transliteration: orégomai

Phonetic: or-eg'-om-ahee

Short Definition: Covet after

- Original: ὀρέγομαι

- Transliteration: Oregomai

- Phonetic: or-eg'-om-ahee

- Definition:

1. to stretch one's self out in order to touch or to grasp something, to reach after or desire something

2. to give one's self up to the love of money

- Origin: middle voice of apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary [cf G3735]

- TDNT entry: 12:27,7

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: 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.

Cognate: G3715