φθάνω

fqavnw fqavnw: 1 aorist
e[fqasa (Winer's Grammar, sec. 15 under the word); perfect
ejfqaka ( L text WH marginal reading); from Homer down;1. to come before, precede, anticipate:
hJmei'"
ouj
mhv
fqavswmen (see
mhv, IV. 2)
touv"
koimhqevnta", we shall not get the start of those who have fallen asleep, i. e. we shall not attain to the fellowship of Christ sooner than the dead, nor have precedence in blessedness, ;
e[fqasen
ejp!
aujtouv"
hJ
ojrghv, (God's penal) wrath came upon them unexpectedly, ;
e[fqasen
ejf!
uJma'"
hJ
basileiva
tou'
Qeou', the kingdom of God has come upon you sooner than you expected, ; ; (but all the preceding examples except the first are referred by the majority of recent interpretations to the following heading; -- a meaning especially common when the verb is construed with prepositions).2. in the Alexandrian LXX (and other later) writings the idea of priority disappears, to come to, arrive at:
eij"
tiv, ; to reach, attain to, a thing, ;
a[cri
tivno", ; (
tivni, to a thing, ;
e{w"
tou'
oujranou', Test xii. Patr., p. 530 (i. e. test. Rub. 5 at the end);
hJ
megalwsuvnh
sou
ejmegaluvnqh
kaiv
e[fqasen
eij"
tovn
oujranovn, , Theodotion (cf. 17, 25;
fqavnein
e{w"
tw'n
oujranw'n, ;
e[fqasen
oJ
mhvn
oJ
e{bdomo", 2 Esdr. ; Philo de mund. opif. sec. 1; de legg. alleg. ; de confus. lingg. sec. 29; Plutarch, apotheg. Lacon. sec. 28; de Alex. s. virt. s. fort. orat. . Cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word; Geldart, Modern Greek, p. 206; Winer's Grammar, sec. 2, 1 b.)). (Compare:
profqavnw.)*