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τεκταίνομαι (tektainomai) to contrive ^G:V

τεκταίνομαι,

[Refs 5th c.BC+]: future τεκτᾰνοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐτεκτηνάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect τεκτήνατο [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—properly of a carpenter. frame, νῆας [Refs 8th c.BC+] [same place], cf. Ar.[same place]: absolutely, do joiners' work, as opposed to to smiths' work, ἕτερος δὲ χαλκεύει τις, ὁ δὲ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πλάττω, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

__2 of other artificers, τ. χέλυν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ τεκταινόμενος the maker, [Refs]
__3 metaphorically, devise, plan, contrive, especially by craft or cunningly (compare συντεκταίνομαι), λόγος σύγκολλα τἀμφοῖν ἐς μέσον τ. fits and frames together, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σιγῇ δ᾽ ἐτεκτήναντ᾽ ἀπόφθεγκτόν μ᾽ they kept me from speech of them, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πᾶν ἐπ᾽ ἐμοὶ τεκταινέσθω (i.e. Cleon) [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II later, active τεκταίνω in same senses, τ. κακά, δόλους, [LXX]; ἀργύριον[LXX+3rd c.BC+]participle τεκταινόμενα in passive sense, ταυτί μ᾽ οὐκ ἐλάνθανε τ. τὰ πράγματ᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ὕστερον τ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]

_{LSJ Scripture Refs: LXX.Prov.14.22 ☩ LXX.Ps.128.3*}