Meaning
"to stretch out or forth," is so rendered in Mat 12:13 (twice), Mat 12:49, Mat 14:31, Mat 26:51, Mar 3:5 (twice); Luk 6:10; in Mat 8:3, Mar 1:41, Luk 5:13, RV (AV, "put forth"); Luk 22:53, Joh 21:18, Act 4:30, Act 26:1. For Act 27:30 see LAY, No. 13.
<2,,1901, epekteino>
an intensive form of No. 1 (epi, "forth"), is used in Phi 3:13, RV, "stretching forward" (AV, "reaching forth"), a metaphor probably from the foot race (rather than the chariot race), so Lightfoot, who quotes Bengel's paraphrase, "the eye goes before and draws on the hand, the hand goes before and draws on the foot."
<3,,5239, huperekteino>
"to stretch out beyond" (huper, "over," and No. 1), occurs in 2Co 10:14, RV, "we stretch (not) ... overmuch" (AV, "... beyond our measure").
Note: For ekpetannumi, Rom 10:21, see SPREAD, No. 5. For epiballo, Act 12:1, see PUT, No. 8.
