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|txtha=(cf. Latin rego, German recken, strecken, reichen (English [[reach]]; [[Curtius]], § 153)); from Homer down; to [[stretch]] [[forth]], as χεῖρα, [[Homer]], Iliad 15,371, etc.; [[present]] [[middle]] (cf. Winer's Grammar, p. 252 (237) [[note]]), to [[stretch]] [[oneself]] [[out]] in [[order]] to [[touch]] or to [[grasp]] [[something]], to [[reach]] [[after]] or [[desire]] [[something]]: [[with]] a genitive of the [[thing]], φιλαργυριας, to [[give]] [[oneself]] up to the [[love]] of [[money]] ([[not]] [[quite]] [[accurately]] [[since]] φιλαργυριας is itself the [[ὄρεξις]]; (cf. Ellicott at the [[passage]])), 1 Timothy 6:10.