Overreach
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. t.) To reach too far; to defeat oneself by setting a goal too high.

2. (v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.

3. (v. i.) To reach too far

4. (v. i.) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.

5. (v. i.) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.

6. (v. i.) To cheat by cunning or deception.

7. (n.) The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

Greek
4122. pleonekteo -- to have more, to overreach
... to have more, to overreach. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: pleonekteo Phonetic
Spelling: (pleh-on-cek-teh'-o) Short Definition: I take advantage of ...
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5233. huperbaino -- to step over, transgress
... huperbaino Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-bah'-ee-no) Short Definition: I transgress,
go beyond Definition: I transgress; I go beyond, overreach, defraud. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
6117. aqab -- to follow at the heel, assail insidiously ...
... aqab. 6118 . to follow at the heel, assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach.
Transliteration: aqab Phonetic Spelling: (aw-kab') Short Definition: craftily. ...
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Library

The Eighth Commandment
... He takes thrice as much for an article as it cost him, or as it is worth.
To overreach others in selling, is to steal money from them. ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 8 the eighth commandment.htm

Abraham
... He believed that God was helping him; therefore he had no need to oppress
or overreach any man. He believed that God's eye was on ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/sermon v abraham.htm

The Olivet Message.
... For that business man down in the sharp competition of the world where duty calls
him, to resist the sly temptations to overreach, to keep keenly alert not to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on power/the olivet message.htm

The Preaching of Nature.
... and sold. To some the world is like a chess-board, where each man plays
a selfish game, and tries to overreach his neighbour. To ...
/.../the life of duty a years plain sermons v 2/sermon l the preaching of.htm

Chapter i.
... of knowledge, not the knowledge of the Holy Spirit, but that which the prince of
this world works, and which he conveys to men in order to overreach their souls ...
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Then Maximian Returned into Gaul; and after Having Made Some Stay ...
... as he had done twice before, and returned into Gaul, with a heart full of wickedness,
and intending by treacherous devices to overreach Constantine, who was ...
/.../chap xxix then maximian returned.htm

Against Marcionists and Manichæans.
... 1. I lately inflicted a severe stroke upon those who are grasping and wish to overreach
others; [629] I did this not in order to wound them but in order to ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/against marcionists and manichaeans.htm

The Almost Christian
... away their neighbour's goods, either by robbery or theft; not to oppress the poor,
neither to use extortion toward any; not to cheat or overreach either the ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 2 the almost christian.htm

"But if Ye have Bitter Envying," &C.
... let a notion of religion, and one far off from an interest in Christ be in the business,
and then he can take advantage to make a man overreach himself in it. ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon v but if ye.htm

But You Will Perhaps Say that the King was a Diviner. ...
... anticipating [4300] what Jupiter"whom [4301] he overreached"was going to say, could
the god not know in what ways a man was preparing to overreach him? ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/4 but you will perhaps.htm

Thesaurus
Overreach (1 Occurrence)
...Overreach (1 Occurrence). Leviticus 25:14 And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour,
or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another. (DBY). ...
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Overreached (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Overreach. Multi-Version Concordance
Overreached (1 Occurrence). Ezekiel 22:12 In thee have ...
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Outwit (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to
defeat or overreach by superior craft. 2. (n.) The faculty ...
/o/outwit.htm - 7k

Overran (3 Occurrences)

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Grease (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (vt) To bribe; to corrupt with presents. 5. (vt) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
6. (vt) To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. Int. ...
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Isaac (127 Occurrences)
... loving will." His life was so quiet and uneventful that it was spent "within the
circle of a few miles; so guileless that he let Jacob overreach him rather ...
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Reach (63 Occurrences)
... advanced to. 11. (vt) To understand; to comprehend. 12. (vt) To overreach;
to deceive. 13. (vi) To stretch out the hand. 14. (vi ...
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Do (21637 Occurrences)
... 9. (vt / auxiliary) To cheat; to gull; to overreach. 10. (vt / auxiliary) To see
or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. 11. ...
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Go (17871 Occurrences)
... 4:6), "not (to go) beyond the things which are written"; for "that no man go beyond"
(1 Thessalonians 4:6), "transgress," margin "overreach"; for "Let us go on ...
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Overreaching (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overreach. Multi-Version
Concordance Overreaching (2 Occurrences). 1 Thessalonians ...
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Bible Concordance
Overreach (1 Occurrence)

Leviticus 25:14 And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.
(DBY)

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Do (21637 Occurrences)

Go (17871 Occurrences)

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