International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Attain

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Attain


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a-tān´: The rendering of קנה, ḳānāh = “buy,” “get” (); נשׂג, nāsagȟ= “reach,” “a meal-offering ... according as he is able” ( margin), “not attained unto the days” (); יכל, yakhol or יכול, yākhōl =“be able,” “overcome,” “attain to innocency” (); בּוא, bō' = “come,” “follow” (, ; , ); καταντάω, katantáō̌=“arrive at” ( the King James Version; ); καταλαμβάνω, katalambáno =“take eagerly,” “seize,” “apprehend,” “attained to righteousness” (); φθανο, φθάνω, phthánō =“have arrived at” ( the King James Version; ); λαμβάνω, lambáno -”take,” “get a hold of,” “catch,” the Revised Version (British and American) “already obtained” (); παρακολουθέω, parakolouthéō = “follow,” “trace out,” “conform to” (). Here the Revised Version (British and American) corrects the King James Version.