ἐπιτυγχάνω: 2 aorist ἐπέτυχον; 1. to light or hit upon any person or thing (Aristophanes, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato). 2. to attain to, obtain: Jas_4:2; with the genitive of thing, Heb_6:15; Heb_11:33; with the accusative of thing: τοῦτο, Rom_11:7 (where Rec. τούτου). Cf. Matthiae, § 328; (Winer's Grammar, 200 (188)).

ἐπιτυγχάνω epitynchanō 5x to light upon, find; to hit, reach; to acquire, obtain, attain, Rom_11:7 (2x); Heb_6:15 ; Heb_11:33 ; Jas_4:2

ἐπι -τυγχάνω , [in LXX : Gen_39:2 ( H6743 hi .), Pro_12:27 ( H2760 ) * ;] 1. to light upon. 2. to obtain, attain to: Jas_4:2 , c . gen . rei (as in cl .), Heb_6:15 ; Heb_11:33 ; c . acc (late Gk .), Rom_11:7 ( Rec. τούτου ).†

ἐπιτυγχάνω [page 249] Hort on Jas_4:2 states that ἐπιτυγχάνω does not properly mean to obtain, i.e. get possession, but to attain, i.e. either fall in with or hit the mark, and is specially used absolutely of being successful. Of this meaning we have a good ex. in P Tebt II. 314 .10 (ii/A.D.) τῆς δὲ τῶν φίλων σπουδῆς τυχόντος ἐπετύχαμ̣ε̣ν̣, by means of the good offices of our friends we achieved it (Edd.) : cf. BGU I. 332 .6 (ii/iii A.D.) εὐχομένη ἡμᾶς ὑγιαίνοντες ( l. τας ) ἀπολαβεῖν , ὡς εὔχομαι ἐπιτετευχότας (cf. Heb_8:6 ΰ c B, Deissmann BS p. 190). For the absolute use see also P Oxy I. 72 .7 (A.D. 90) ἀπογράφομαι Μάρκῳ Πουρκίῳ ἐπιτυγχάνοντι ἀπόντι , I register for M. P. who happens to be away. For the constr. with the gen., as in Heb_6:15 ; Heb_11:33 , cf. BGU I. 113 .8 (A.D. 143) ἐπιτυχόντες . . . τῆς Ῥωμαίων πολειτίας , ib. II. 522 .8 (ii/A.D.) αὐτὴ δέομαι , γυν [ὴ ] χήρα καὶ ἀθοήτητος ( l. ἀβοήθ ), ἐπιτ [υχε ]ι̣̑ν τῆς αὐτῆς φιλανθρωπίας . With the acc., as in Rom_11:7 , cf. P Par 29 .26 (B.C. 161 0) ὑμῖν δὲ γίνοιτο πᾶν ὃ ἂν ἐπιβάλλησθ᾽ ἐπιτυγχάνειν , and with the dat., cf. P Oxy III. 474 .33 (A.D. 184?) ἐπιτυγχάνων τοῖς ἀργυρικοῖς λόγοις , where the editors translate on examining the accounts of the money revenue. The subst. = success appears in OGIS 678 .2 (time of Hadrian) ὑπὲρ . . τῆς τῶν ὑπὸ αὐτοῦ ἐπιταγέντων ἔργων ἐπιτυχίας : cf. the adv. ib. 556 .6 πρεσβεύσαντα ἐπιτυχῶς ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐλευθερίας . MGr ἐπιτυχαίνω , succeed, attain.

ἐπιτυγχάνω fut. -τεύξομαι aor2 ἐπέτυ^χον properly, "to hit the mark": hence "to light or fall upon, meet with", c. dat., Hdt. , Thuc. , etc. c. gen., Ar. , Thuc. absol., ὁ ἐπιτυχών, like ὁ τυχών, "the first person one meets, any one", Hdt. , Plat. "to attain to, reach, gain" one's end, c. gen. rei, Xen. , Dem. c. part. "to succeed in" doing, Hdt. c. dat. modi, "to be successful in" a thing, μάχῃ Aeschin. : absol. "to succeed, be successful", Plat. , Xen. ἐπ. βιβλίῳ "to read" it, Luc.

ἐπι-τυγχάνω [in LXX: Gen.39:2 (צָלַח hi.), Pro.12:27 (חָרַךְ)* ;] __1. to light upon. __2. to obtain, attain to: Jas.4:2, with genitive of thing(s) (as in cl.), Heb.6:15 11:33; with accusative (late Gk.), Rom.11:7 (Rec. τούτου).† (AS)