Word

ἀνευρίσκω

aneurískō · G429 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to find by searching, to look for and find

    To learn the location of something by intentional searching

    Examples

    Luke 2:16 And they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger.

    Acts 21:4 After looking up the disciples, we stayed there for seven days; and they kept telling Paul, through the Spirit, not to set foot in Jerusalem.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 4 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
ἀνακρίνω anakrínō · G350 · to examine carefully, to investigate, to study thoroughly
While ἀνευρίσκω emphasizes the successful outcome of finding out through search, ἀνακρίνω focuses on the process of careful examination and investigation that leads to discovery or understanding.
In the other Testament 1 word
מָצָא mâtsâʼ · H4672 · to find, to be able (to do something)
The standard Hebrew verb for 'to find' or 'to discover,' serving as the natural translation equivalent for ἀνευρίσκω in contexts of finding out or discovering something through search or inquiry.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To find by searching, to look for and find27.28
In Luke 2:16, the shepherds “came in a hurry and found (anheũron) their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger,” describing a deliberate search that reached its goal.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 2 aorist ἀνεῦρον, 3 person plural ἀνεῦραν, Lk 2:16 (T Tr WH; see εὑρίσκω); to find out…
: 2 aorist ἀνεῦρον, 3 person plural ἀνεῦραν, Lk 2:16 (T Tr WH; see εὑρίσκω); to find out by search: τινα, Lk 2:16; Acts 21:4. (In Greek writings from Herodotus down.) Cf. Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part iii., p. 13f.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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