Words the Bible translates as attain
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- katalambanōκαταλαμβάνωto lay hold of and make your own: to reach and seize a goal you have been chasing.
+3 more meanings
- to overtake and seize by force: to catch up with someone or something and take hold of it, often as an enemy or a disaster does.
- to grasp with the mind: to come to realize, perceive, or understand something.
- to catch someone in the act, especially of wrongdoing.
- nasagנָשַׂגto overtake or reach something that was ahead of or beyond you: to close the gap and arrive at it
- phthanōφθάνωto get all the way there: to reach a place, a person, or a goal, arriving rather than merely drawing close.
- katantaōκαταντάωto arrive at an endpoint: to reach a place, or to reach a goal or condition one has been moving toward
- katatithēmiκατατίθημιto attainnot studied yet
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