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Lexical Definition
Strong's Greek G5177
akin to the base of 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 ), i.e. perchance; or (present participle) as adjective, usual (as if commonly met with, with , extraordinary), neuter (as adverb) perhaps; or (with another verb) as adverb, by accident (as it were)
KJV usage: :--be, chance, enjoy, little, obtain, X refresh…self, + special.
Etymology: probably for an obsolete (for which the middle voice of another alternate (to make ready or bring to pass) is used in certain tenses;
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
to hit an object; to attain to, to obtain, acquire, enjoy, Lk. 20:35; Acts 24:2; 26:22; 27:3; 2 Tim. 2:10; Heb. 8:6; 11:35; intrans. to happen, fall out, chance; common, ordinary, Acts 19:11; 28:2; as an adv., it may be, perchance, perhaps, 1 Cor. 16:6; εἰ τύχοι, as it so happens, as the case may be, 1 Cor. 14:10; 15:37*