1) to come upon, hit upon, to meet with
1a) after searching, to find a thing sought
1b) without previous search, to find (by chance), to fall in with
1c) those who come or return to a place
2) to find by enquiry, thought, examination, scrutiny, observation, to find out by practice and experience
2a) to see, learn, discover, understand
2b) to be found, i.e. to be seen, be present
2c) to be discovered, recognised, detected, to show one's self out, of one's character or state as found out by others (men, God, or both)
2d) to get knowledge of, come to know, God
3) to find out for one's self, to acquire, get, obtain, procure
Part of Speech: verb
Citing in TDNT: 2:769,*
G2147
A prolonged form of a primary word εὕρω heurô; which (together with another cognate form, εὑρέω heureô) is used for it in all the tenses except the present and imperfect; to find (literally or figuratively): - find, get, obtain, perceive, see.
| Gloss | Section |
|---|---|
| be found to be | 13.7 |
| c attain | 13.17 |
| b learn | 27.1 |
| a discover | 27.27 |
| d begin to experience | 90.70 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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