φθάνω [in LXX for נָגַע hi., מְטָא, etc. ;] 1. to come before another, anticipate (cl.): with accusative of person(s), 1Th.4:15. 2. In late writers and MGr. (see Kennedy, Sources, 156; Lft., Notes, 35), to come, arrive: Rom.9:31; before εἰς, Php.3:16; ἄχρι, 2Co.10:14; ἐπί (cf. Da TH Dan.4:21, and see Dalman, Words, 107), Mat.12:28, Luk.11:20, 1Th.2:16 (cf. προ-φθάνω).† (AS)
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G5348 — φθάνω
phthanō · to precede/arrive · Greek
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Matthew 12:28 · ἔφθασεν‘But if I, by the Spirit of God, do cast out the demons, then come already unto you did the reign of God.Luke 11:20 · ἔφθασενbut if by the finger of God I cast forth the demons, then come unawares upon you did the reign of God.Romans 9:31 · ἔφθασεν.and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;2 Corinthians 10:14 · ἐφθάσαμενfor not as not reaching to you do we stretch ourselves overmuch, for even unto you did we come in the good news of the Christ,Philippians 3:16 · ἐφθάσαμεν,but to what we have come—by the same rule walk, the same thing think;1 Thessalonians 2:16 · ἔφθασενforbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them—to the end!1 Thessalonians 4:15 · φθάσωμενfor this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living—who do remain over to the presence of the Lord—may not precede those asleep,