STRONGS NUMBER G1793

Original Word: ἐντυγχάνω
Transliteration: entynchanō
Phonetic Spelling: (en-toong-khan'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to chance upon, by implication confer with, entreat
Meaning: to chance upon, by implication confer with, entreatplead with, make intercession.

From en and tugchano; to chance upon, i.e. (by implication) confer with; by extension to entreat (in favor or against) -- deal with, make intercession.

see GREEK en

see GREEK tugchano

STRONGS NT 1793: ἐντυγχάνω

ἐντυγχάνω; 2 aorist ἐνέτυχον; generally with a dative either of person or of thing;

1. to light upon a person or a thing, fall in with, hit upon, a person or a thing; so often in Attic.

2. to go to or meet a person, especially for the purpose of conversation, consultation, or supplication (Polybius, Plutarch, Aelian, others): with the addition περί τίνος, the genitive of person, for the purpose of consulting about a person, Acts 25:24 (R. V. made suit); to make petition: ἐνέτυχον τῷ κυρίῳ καί ἐδεήθην αὐτοῦ, Wis. 8:21; ἐνέτυχον τῷ βασιλεῖ τήν ἀπόλυσιν ... αἰτούμενοι, 3Macc. 6:37; hence, to pray, entreat: ὑπέρ with the genitive of person to make intercession for anyone (the dative of the person approached in prayer being omitted, as evident from the context), Romans 8:21, 34; Hebrews 7:25, (followed by περί with the genitive of person, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 56, 1 [ET]); τίνι κατά τίνος (to plead with one against anyone), to accuse one to anyone, Romans 11:2, cf. 1 Macc. 8:32 1 Macc. 10:61, 63f 1 Macc. 11:25. (Not found in the Sept.) (Compare: ὑπερεντυγχάνω.)