Gloss: to contrive
Transliteration: tektainomai
Strong’s: G9412
1. of a carpenter, to make, work, frame , (Iliad by Homer):—;absolute to do joiners' work , opposite to smiths' work, (Aristophanes Comicus)
2. of other artificers, (Homeric Hymns)
3. metaphorically to devise, plan, contrive , especially by craft, Lat. machinari, ἐτεκτήναντ᾽ ἀπόφθεγκτόν μ᾽ they kept me from speech of them, (Euripides); πᾶν ἐπ᾽ ἐμοὶ τεκταινέσθω (sc. Cleon) (Aristophanes Comicus)
4. later, Act. τεκταίνω, in same sense, [<date>variant dates<author>Anthology Palantina</author></date>, (Lucian); hence participle passive τεκταινόμενος, (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)
2. of other artificers, (Homeric Hymns)
3. metaphorically to devise, plan, contrive , especially by craft, Lat. machinari, ἐτεκτήναντ᾽ ἀπόφθεγκτόν μ᾽ they kept me from speech of them, (Euripides); πᾶν ἐπ᾽ ἐμοὶ τεκταινέσθω (sc. Cleon) (Aristophanes Comicus)
4. later, Act. τεκταίνω, in same sense, [<date>variant dates<author>Anthology Palantina</author></date>, (Lucian); hence participle passive τεκταινόμενος, (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)