tugchanō

In this use the word describes reaching or coming into possession of something, and it usually points to the thing gained: peace, help, a resurrection, a ministry, care in one's need. English "obtain" or "attain" fits it well.

One shade is easy to miss. The word often frames the outcome as something that falls to a person or is granted to them, not only something they went out and secured by their own effort. Paul says he stood firm because he "obtained help from God" (Acts 26:22), and the faithful of old endured torture in hope of "a better resurrection" (Hebrews 11:35). The attaining is real, but it comes as much as it is won.

This is close to the ordinary verb for taking or receiving (λαμβάνω), and closer still to its own strengthened relative (ἐπιτυγχάνω), which narrows in on succeeding at getting a specific thing.

Alongside the sense of obtaining, the same word covers the opposite pole: something happening or turning out a certain way with no one steering it. From this circumstantial idea Greek built a handful of fixed turns of phrase that fill most of its New Testament appearances, and in these "obtain" would make no sense at all.

Three patterns recur:

• The participle standing for "whatever merely happens to be at hand," almost always negated to mean the reverse: Luke reports miracles that were "no ordinary" ones (Acts 19:11) and kindness that was "no ordinary" kindness (Acts 28:2), his understated way of calling them extraordinary.
• A set phrase meaning "as it may turn out," used to say "for example" or "perhaps": Paul counts up "so many kinds" of languages, "it may be" (1 Corinthians 14:10), and hopes he will "perhaps" stay a while (1 Corinthians 16:6).
• The plain sense of happening to be in some state, close to simply "to be": the traveler in the parable is left "half dead" as things stood (Luke 10:30).

So the reader meets the same verb wearing very different clothes, and the surrounding words, not the verb alone, tell which shade is meant.