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ehuriskō G2147

εὑρίσκω (ehuriskō) means “to find/meet” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

εὑρίσκω Greek · G2147 176 tagged occurrences in 167 verses

Pronunciation guide: hyoo-ris'-ko Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G2147

εὑρίσκω · ehuriskō · to find/meet

εὑρίσκω, [in LXX chiefly for מצא, also for נשׂג hi., etc. ;] to find, with or without previous search: absol., opposite to ζητέω, Mat.7:7, 8 Luk.11:9, 10; with accusative, Mat.2:8, Mrk.1:37, Act.13:22, 2Ti.1:17, al.; pass., οὐχ εὑ., of disappearance, Heb.11:5, Rev.16:20, al.; γῆ κ. τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ ἔργα εὑρεθήσεται (for conjectures as to the meaning of this reading, see Mayor, ICC, in l.), 2Pe.3:10, WH, R, mg. Metaphorical, to find, find out by inquiry, learn, discover: Luk.19:48, Act.4:21; αἰτίαν, Jhn.18:38, Act.13:28, al.; pass., Mat.1:18, Luk.17:18, Rom.7:10, 1Co.4:2, Gal.2:17, 1Pe.1:7, Rev.5:4, al.; of attaining to the knowledge of God, εὑ. θεόν, Act.17:27; pass., Rom.10:20 (LXX). Mid., to find for oneself, gain, procure, obtain: with accusative of thing(s), λύτρωσιν, Heb.9:12; act. in same sense (so cl. poets, but not in Attic prose), Mat.10:39 11:29, Luk.1:30, Act.7:46, 2Ti.1:18, al. (cf. ἀν-ευρίσκω). (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

I find, learn, discover, especially after searching.

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How translators render G2147

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
found 13
he found 12
they found 9
you will find 8
find 7
finds 7
and found 5
i have found 5
was found 5
finding 4
we found 4
they could not find 3
we have found 3
and found it 2
be found 2
did not find 2
does not find it 2
i find 2
is found 2
it finds the house 2
never to be seen 2
they did not find 2
they did not find any 2
will find 2
will not find 2
you will not find 2
and find 1
and found that the water 1
appeared 1
are found to be 1
be regarded as 1
being found 1
could be found 1
could not find 1
did not find any 1
discovered that 1
exposed 1
find him 1
finds them 1
found it 1
has discovered 1
have i found 1
havent found any 1
he could find 1
he could not be found 1
he finds 1
he found him 1
he found that 1
i even found 1
i found that 1
i have discovered 1
i have not found anyone 1
i may not find 1
i was found 1
looking for a reason 1
may not find me 1
may result in 1
my accusers did not find 1
she finds 1
she was found 1
that read 1
the total came to 1
there was found 1
they be found 1
they could find 1
they could not find a way 1
they could not find him 1
though they found 1
thus securing 1
to be found 1
to provide 1
to see 1
unsuccessfully 1
was no one found 1
was present with them 1
we are also exposed as 1
we find 1
we will not be found 1
when he finds it 1
when she finds it 1
when they found 1
where they found 1
will be laid bare 1
will he find 1
you can find 1
you find him 1
you have found 1
you may even find yourselves 1
you will find some 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
found 34
find 15
findeth 9
ye shall find 9
and found 7
he found 7
shall find 5
they found 5
was found 5
finding 4
he find 4
i have found 4
shall 4
was 4
when he had found 4
be found 3
i find 3
i have 3
shall be found 3
we found 3
we have found 3
when they found 3
hath found 2
he findeth 2
i found 2
is found 2
thou shalt find 2
when they had found 2
are found 1
being found 1
could 1
found him 1
found that 1
found they 1
found we 1
get 1
hast found 1
have found 1
having obtained 1
he might find 1
i perceived 1
i shall 1
i was found 1
might be found 1
she found 1
she was found 1
that find 1
that he may find 1
there was found 1
they 1
they have found 1
they may be found 1
they might find 1
they saw 1
thou hast found 1
though they found 1
to find 1
we are found 1
we find 1
we shall 1
were 1
when he hath found 1
when she hath found 1
when they could 1
ye be found 1
ye have found 1
ye may be found 1

Verses containing G2147

Page 3 of 4. 167 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Acts 5:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

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  2. Acts 5:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You may even find yourselves fighting against God.”

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  3. Acts 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

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  4. Acts 7:46 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

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  5. Acts 8:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Philip appeared at Azotus and traveled through that region, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

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  6. Acts 9:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

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  7. Acts 9:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There he found a man named Aeneas who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.

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  8. Acts 10:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As Peter talked with him, he went inside and found many people gathered together.

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  9. Acts 11:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

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  10. Acts 12:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

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  11. Acts 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus,

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  12. Acts 13:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’

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  13. Acts 13:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

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  14. Acts 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,

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  15. Acts 17:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

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  16. Acts 17:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

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  17. Acts 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

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  18. Acts 19:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples

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  19. Acts 19:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.

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  20. Acts 21:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded it and set sail.

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  21. Acts 23:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

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  22. Acts 23:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I found that the accusation involved questions about their own law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.

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  23. Acts 24:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

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  24. Acts 24:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.

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  25. Acts 24:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia

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  26. Acts 24:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Otherwise, let these men state for themselves any crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin,

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  27. Acts 27:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.

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  28. Acts 27:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.

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  29. Acts 28:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There we found some brothers who invited us to spend the week with them. And so we came to Rome.

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  30. Romans 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has discovered?

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  31. Romans 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

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    Source alternate reference: 7.9

  32. Romans 7:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

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  33. Romans 10:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Isaiah boldly says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me.”

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  34. 1 Corinthians 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

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  35. 1 Corinthians 15:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.

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  36. 2 Corinthians 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I had no peace in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.

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  37. 2 Corinthians 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.

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  38. 2 Corinthians 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.

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  39. 2 Corinthians 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.

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  40. 2 Corinthians 12:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

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  41. Galatians 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not!

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  42. Philippians 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.

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  43. Philippians 3:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

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  44. 2 Timothy 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Indeed, when he arrived in Rome, he searched diligently until he found me.

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  45. 2 Timothy 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    May the Lord grant Onesiphorus His mercy on that day. You know very well how much he ministered to me in Ephesus.

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  46. Hebrews 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

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  47. Hebrews 9:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.

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  48. Hebrews 11:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

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  49. Hebrews 12:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.

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  50. 1 Peter 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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