STRONGS G4385:
προτείνω: 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)).
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