Word Summary
proteinō: to stretch out
Original Word: προτείνωTransliteration: proteinō
Phonetic Spelling: (prot-i'-no)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to stretch out
Meaning: to stretch out
Strong's Concordance
to stretch out, spread out
From pro and teino (to stretch); to protend, i.e. Tie prostrate (for scourging) -- bind.
see GREEK pro
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4385: προτείνωπροτείνω: 1 aorist
προετεινα; (from
Herodotus down);
to stretch forth, stretch out:
ὡς προέτειναν (
Rec. προέτεινεν)
αὐτόν τοῖς ἱμᾶσιν, when they had stretched him out for the thongs i. e. to receive the blows of the thongs (by tying him up to a beam or a pillar; for it appears from
Acts 22:29 that Paul had already been bound),
Acts 22:25 (
Winers Grammar, § 31 at the beginning; others (cf.
R. V. text) 'with the thongs' (cf.
ἱμάς)).