Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
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And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Read in context →Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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tynchánō · toong-khan'-o
akin to the base of G5088 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 G1487), i.e. perchance; or (present participle) as adjective, usual (as if commonly met with, with G3756, extraordinary), neuter (as adverb) perhaps; or (with another verb) as adverb, by accident (as it were)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be, chance, enjoy, little, obtain, X refresh…self, + special.
Strong's first: Luke 20:35Strong's last: Hebrews 11:35
Open full G5177 profile →lambánō · lam-ban'-o
while G138 is more violent, to seize or remove))
Strong's KJV usage: :--accept, + be amazed, assay, attain, bring, X when I call, catch, come on (X unto), + forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (X after), take (away, up).
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 9:25Strong's last: Hebrews 4:16
Open full G2983 profile →nâsag · naw-sag'
to reach (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: ability, be able, attain (unto), (be able to, can) get, lay at, put, reach, remove, wax rich, × surely, (over-) take (hold of, on, upon).
Strong's first: Isaiah 35:10Strong's last: Isaiah 51:11
Open full H5381 profile →eleéō · el-eh-eh'-o
to compassionate (by word or deed, specially, by divine grace)
Strong's KJV usage: :--have compassion (pity on), have (obtain, receive, shew) mercy (on).
Strong's first: Matthew 5:7Strong's last: Matthew 5:7
Open full G1653 profile →epitynchánō · ep-ee-toong-khan'-o
to chance upon, i.e. (by implication) to attain
Strong's KJV usage: :--obtain.
Strong's first: James 4:2Strong's last: James 4:2
Open full G2013 profile →katalambánō · kat-al-am-ban'-o
to take eagerly, i.e. seize, possess, etc. (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--apprehend, attain, come upon, comprehend, find, obtain, perceive, (over-)take.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 9:24Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 9:24
Open full G2638 profile →peripoíēsis · per-ee-poy'-ay-sis
acquisition (the act or the thing); by extension, preservation
Strong's KJV usage: :--obtain(-ing), peculiar, purchased, possession, saving.
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 5:9Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 5:9
Open full G4047 profile →châzaq · khaw-zak'
to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer
Strong's KJV usage: aid, amend, × calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.
Strong's first: Daniel 11:21Strong's last: Daniel 11:21
Open full H2388 profile →pûwq · pook
to issue, i.e. furnish; causatively, to secure; figuratively, to succeed
Strong's KJV usage: afford, draw out, further, get, obtain.
Strong's first: Proverbs 8:35Strong's last: Proverbs 8:35
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For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
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OBTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin obtineo; ob and teneo, to hold.]
1. To get; to gain; to procure; in a general sense, to gain possession of a thing, whether temporary or permanent; to acquire. This word usually implies exertion to get possession, and in this it differs from receive, which may or may not imply exertion. It differs from acquire, as genus from species; acquire being properly applied only to things permanently possessed; but obtain is applied both to things of temporary and of permanent possession. We obtain loans of money on application; we obtain answers to letters; we obtain spirit from liquors by distillation and salts by evaporation. We obtain by seeking; we often receive without seeking. We acquire or obtain a good title to lands by deed, or by a judgment of court; but we do not acquire spirit by distillation; nor do we acquire an answer to a letter or an application.
He shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries. Daniel 11:21.
In whom we have obtained an inheritance. Ephesians 1:11.
2. To keep; to hold.
OBTA'IN, verb intransitive
1. To be received in customary or common use; to continue in use; to be established in practice.
The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, obtained in the western parts of the empire.
2. To be established; to subsist in nature.
The general laws of fluidity, elasticity and gravity, obtain in animal and inanimate tubes.
3. To prevail; to succeed. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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