to obtain/happen
tugchano describes obtaining or attaining something, and in other clauses marks what happens or may be the case.
The attested uses chiefly describe reaching or receiving a stated result, such as salvation, help, care, a resurrection, a ministry, or an age; other clauses use the verb for what may happen, may be the case, or has set in.
Senses in use
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Attaining or receiving a stated result · dominant
In 2 Timothy 2:10, the plural aorist subjunctive stands in the purpose clause concerning the elect and salvation; the APB renders the clause “that they also may obtain the salvation.” In Acts 27:3, the aorist infinitive follows Julius's permission for Paul to visit friends, where the APB says he went “to obtain care”; Hebrews 11:35 similarly places the form with the hoped-for “better resurrection.”
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What happens or may be the case · common
In 1 Corinthians 14:10, the third-person aorist optative occurs in the statement about many kinds of voices, and the APB renders “it may happen.” The same optative appears in 1 Corinthians 15:37 in the alternative “of wheat or of some other kind”; 1 Corinthians 16:6 uses an aorist participle where the APB says “perhaps remain,” and Acts 28:2 refers to rain that “had set in.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the relevant clauses with “obtain,” “have had,” “to obtain care,” “perhaps,” and “it may happen.” These renderings confirm the clauses' overall movement but do not by themselves assign a separate English equivalent in every verse.