'Stretching' in the Bible

And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!

And stretching forth his hand he touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed: and immediately the leprosy departed from him.

By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

And as he was stretching him with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion who was standing by, 'A man, a Roman, uncondemned -- is it lawful to you to scourge;'

And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretching out his hand answered in his defence:

We are not overstepping the limits of our province, as if we did not [legitimately] reach to you, for we were the [very] first to come even as far as you with the good news of Christ.

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --