εὑρίσκω: Difference between revisions

|txtha=imperfect εὕρισκον (R G T); R G T); Tr WH)) and more rarely ηὕρισκον (cf. Kühner, § 343, i. 825f (especially Veitch, under the word at the end) and references under εὐδοκέω); future εὑρήσω; perfect εὕρηκα; 1st aorist ἑύρησα (which aorist, unknown to the earlier Greeks, occurs in Aesop fab. 131 (f. 41edition Furia, p. 333edition Cor.); Manetho, 5,137 and in Byzantine writings; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 721; Winer s Grammar, 86 (82); (cf. Buttmann, 36 (31))), 2nd aorist εὗρον, 1st person plural in Alex. form L WH s Appendix, p. 164; Buttmann, 39 (34); Winer s Grammar, § 13,1 (see ἀπέρχομαι)) εὕραμεν, T Tr WH, 3rd person plural εὗραν, Tr WH; Tr (in the Sept. often εὕροσαν); passive, present ἑυρίσκομαι; imperfect 3rd person singular εὑρίσκετο, R G, ηὑρίσκετο L T Tr WH (cf. Bleek and Delitzsch at the passage (Veitch, as above)); 1st aorist εὑρέθην; future εὑρεθήσομαι; 2nd aorist middle ἑυρομην and later εὑράμην (Sept. numberless times for מָצָא, sometimes for הִשִּׂיג to attain to, and for Chaldean שְׁכַח; (from Homer down); to find; i. e.<br /><b class="num">1.</b> properly, to come upon, hit upon, to meet with;<br /><b class="num">a.</b> after searching, to find a thing sought: absolutely, opposed to ζητεῖν, ζητεῖ καί εὑρήσεις, Epictetus diss. 4,1, 51); τινα, οὐχ εὑρίσκετο, he had vanished, πέραν with the genitive ἐν with the dative εὑρέθη εἰς, εἰς, C. 2); with the accusative of the thing, , etc.; followed by indirect discourse, οὐχ εὑρέθησαν, had disappeared, ἐν with the dative of place, τινα or τί ζητεῖν καί οὐχ εὑρίσκειν: Ald.; Complutensian; γῆ καί τά ἐν αὐτῇ ἔργα εὑρεθήσεται shall be found namely, for destruction, i. e. will be unable to hide themselves from the doom decreed them by God, Tr WH, after the strange but improbable reading of manuscripts א B and other authorities; (see WH. Introductory § 365 and Appendix at the passage).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> without previous search, to find (by chance), to fall in with: τινα, ἐν with the dative of place, τί, ἐν, with the dative of place, εὑρίσκω τινα or τί with a predicate accusative is used of those who come or return to a place, the predicate participle or adjective describing the state or condition in which the person or thing met with is found, or the action which one is found engaged in: with an adjective, Buttmann, 301 (258)), καθώς, ὄντα must be supplied, Winer s Grammar, § 45,6b.; Buttmann, 304 (261)).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> tropically, "to find by inquiry, thought, examination, scrutiny, observation, hearing; to find out by practice and experience," i. e. to see, learn, discover, understand: κατηγορίαν, T Tr text WH κατηγορεῖν); τινα followed by participle in the predicate, ὅτι, πειράζειν), τινα (τί) with a predicate adjective (participle), αἰτίαν θανάτου, αἰτίαν, κακόν, ἀδίκημα ἐν τίνι, τό τί ποιήσωσι, τό πῶς κολάσωνται αὐτούς, ἑυρίσκομαι to be found, i. e. to be seen, be present: נִמְצָא to be discovered, recognized, detected, to show oneself out, of one's character or state as found out by others (men, God, or both) (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 65,8): εὑρέθη ἐν γαστρί ἔχουσα, ἵνα εὑρεθῶσι καθώς καί ἡμεῖς, εὑρέθη μοι ἡ ἐντολή εἰς θάνατον namely, οὖσα, the commandment, as I found by experience, brought death to me, τίνι, the dative of the person taking cognizance and judging (Winer s Grammar, § 31,10; Buttmann, 187 (162)), Buttmann, the passage cited and § 133,14; Winer's Grammar, § 31,4a.); ἵνα εὑρεθῶ ἐν αὐτῷ i. e. ἐν Χριστῷ, namely, ὤν, σχήματι εὑρεθείς ὡς ἄνθρωπος, Josephus, b. j. 3,6, 1; so the Latin incenior, Cicero, de amic. 19,70; reperior, Tuscul. i. 39,94). εὑρίσκειν Θεόν (opposed to ζητεῖν αὐτόν, see ζητέω, 1c. (cf. ἐκζητέω, a.)), to get knowledge of, come to know, God, εὑρίσκεται (ὁ Θεός) τίνι, discloses the knowledge of himself to one, Philo, monarch. i. § 5; Origen contra Celsus 7,42). On the other hand, in the O. T. εὑρίσκεται ὁ Θεός is used of God heaving prayer, granting aid implored (εὑρέθην (L and Tr in brackets WH marginal reading add ἐν) τοῖς ἐμέ μή ζητοῦσι, I granted the knowledge and deliverance of the gospel.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> Middle, as in Greek writings, to find for oneself, to acquire, get, obtain, procure: λύτρωσιν, Buttmann, 193 (167); Winer's Grammar, 18; 33 (32) n.): τήν ψυχήν, ἀνάπαυσιν, (ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν, μετανοίας τόπον, place for recalling the decision, changing the mind (of his father), Winer's Grammar, 147 (139)); σκήνωμα τῷ Θεῷ, opportunity of building a house for God, χάριν εὕρωμεν, grace, favor, χάριν παρά τῷ Θεῷ, ἐνώπιον, τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἔλεος παρά κυρίου, בֲּעֵינֵי חֵן מָצָא, ἀνευρίσκω.)