Strong's Concordance exeraunaó: to search out Original Word: ἐξερευνάωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: exeraunaó Phonetic Spelling: (ex-er-yoo-nah'-o) Definition: to search out Usage: I search diligently, I examine carefully (minutely). HELPS Word-studies 1830 eksereunáō (from 1537 /ek, "wholly out from," intensifying 2045 /ereunáō, "search") – properly, search out with all diligence (effort); "search carefully" (A-S), in an investigative manner (inquiring after facts); to "examine carefully (minutely)" (Souter). 1830 /eksereunáō ("diligently search") is used only in 1 Pet 1:10. Here it focuses on the end-result of the searching, i.e. the fulfillment of salvation (unique glorification) in a believer's life (cf. 1 Pet 3:9). ["The ek in composition has the force of out, searched out, and is rendered by diligently" (WS, 302).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ek and eraunaó Definition to search out NASB Translation inquiries (1), made careful* (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1830: ἐξεραυνάω[ἐξεραυνάω T Tr WH for ἐξερευνάω, which see; see ἐραυνάω.] STRONGS NT 1830: ἐξερευνάωἐξερευνάω, ἐξερεύνω: 1 aorist ἐξηρεύνησα; to search out, search anxiously and diligently: περί τίνος, 1 Peter 1:10 (where T Tr WH ἐξεραυνάω which see). (1 Macc. 3:48 1 Macc. 9:26; the Sept.; Sophocles, Euripides, Polybius, Plutarch, others.) From ek and ereunao; to explore (figuratively) -- search diligently. see GREEK ek see GREEK ereunao Englishman's Concordance 1 Peter 1:10 V-AIA-3PGRK: ἐξεζήτησαν καὶ ἐξηραύνησαν προφῆται οἱ KJV: and searched diligently, who INT: sought out and searched out [the] prophets the [ones] |