τυγχάνω; 2 aorist 
ἐτυχον; perfect (
Hebrews 8:6) 
τέτευχα (so codex B), and (so 
L T Tr marginal reading 
WH manuscript 
א) 
τετυχα a later and rarer form (which not a few incorrectly think is everywhere to be regarded as a clerical error; 
Buttmann, 67 (59); Kühner, § 343, under the word; (
Veitch, under the word; 
Phryn. ed. Lob., p. 595; 
WH's Appendix, p. 171)), in some texts also 
τετύχηκα (a form common in the earlier writings. (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 483f, and references as above)); a verb in frequent use from 
Homer down; "est Latin attingere et contingere; German 
treffen, c. accusative equivalent to
etwas erlangen, neuter
es trifft sich." Ast, Platonic Lexicon, under the word; hence, 
1. transitive, 
a. properly, 
to hit the mark (opposed to 
ἁμαρτάνειν to miss the mark), of one discharging a javelin or arrow (
Homer, 
Xenophon, 
Lucian). 
b. tropically, 
to reach, attain, obtain, get, become master of: with a genitive of the thing (
Winer's Grammar, 200 (188)), 
Luke 20:35 (
Winer's Grammar, 609 (566)); 
Acts 24:2(3); 
Acts 26:22; 
27:3; 
2 Timothy 2:10; 
Hebrews 8:6; 
Hebrews 11:35. 
2. intransitive, 
to happen, chance, fall out: 
εἰ τύχοι (if it so fall out), 
it may be, perhaps (frequent in secular authors), 
1 Corinthians 14:10, where see Meyer; or, considered in reference to the topic in hand, it may be equivalent to 
to specify, to take a case, as, for example, 1 Corinthians 15:37 (
Vulg. in each passage
ut puta; (cf. Meyer as above)); 
τυχόν, adverbially, 
perhaps, it may be, 1 Corinthians 16:6 (cf. 
Buttmann, § 145, 8; (
Winers Grammar, § 45, 8 N. 1); see examples from Greek writings in 
Passow, under the word, II. 2 b.; (Liddell and Scott, under the word B. III. 2; 
Sophocles Lexicon, under the word)). 
to meet one; hence, 
ὁ τυχών, 
he who meets one or presents himself unsought, any chance, ordinary, common person (see 
Passow, under the word, II. 2; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, A. II. 1 b.; 
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word)): 
οὐ τυχών, 
not common, i. e. eminent, exceptional (
A. V. special), 
Acts 19:11; 
Acts 28:2 (3Macc. 3:7); 
to chance to be: 
ἡμιθανῆ τυγχάνοντα, half dead as he happened to be, just as he was, 
Luke 10:30 R G. (Compare: 
ἐντυγχάνω, 
ὑπερεντυγχάνω, 
ἐπιτυγχάνω, 
παρατυγχάνω, 
συντυγχάνω.) 
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