# παρατυγχάνω/paratugchanō
This word describes a situation or how something is. It is a verb. However, it is not an action.
* This word means to happen to be somewhere when an event occurs there. It is used to talk about a person being somewhere when something happens there, but he did not intend to be there for that event.

See: Acts 17:17

**Advice to translators**: This type of verb describes a state of being.