Quick Definition
εὑρίσκω v. I find
Strong's Definition
heuro hyoo'-ro, which (together with another cognate form) heureo hyoo-reh'-o is used for it in all the tenses except the present and imperfect to find (literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: find, get, obtain, perceive, see
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | impf. εὑ-, ηὑ- · fut. εὑρήσω · aor. εὗρον · aor.opt.3pl. εὕροιεν · pf. εὕρηκα · aor.pass. εὑρέθην · fut.pass. εὑρεθήσομαι | ἀνευρίσκω · ἐφευρετής
27.27 · Learn · Learn the Location of Something
to learn the whereabouts of something, to find, to discover, to come upon, to happen to find to learn the location of something, either by intentional searching or by unexpected discovery
MAT 2:8 · MAT 7:7 · MAT 7:8 · MAT 7:14 · MAT 8:10 · MAT 12:43 · MAT 13:44 · MAT 13:46 · MAT 17:27 · MAT 18:13 · MAT 18:28 · MAT 20:6 · MAT 21:2 · MAT 21:19 · MAT 22:9 · MAT 22:10 · MAT 24:46 · MAT 26:40 · MAT 26:43 · MAT 26:60 · MAT 27:32 · MRK 1:37 · MRK 11:2 · MRK 11:4 · MRK 13:36 · MRK 14:16 · MRK 14:37 · MRK 14:40 · MRK 14:55 · LUK 2:12 · LUK 2:45 · LUK 2:46 · LUK 4:17 · LUK 7:9 · LUK 7:10 · LUK 8:35 · LUK 9:12 · LUK 9:36 · LUK 11:9 · LUK 11:10 · LUK 11:24 · LUK 12:37 · LUK 12:38 · LUK 12:43 · LUK 13:6 · LUK 13:7 · LUK 15:4 · LUK 15:5 · LUK 15:6 · LUK 15:8 · LUK 15:9 · LUK 15:9 · LUK 15:24 · LUK 15:32 · LUK 17:18 · LUK 18:8 · LUK 19:30 · LUK 19:32 · LUK 22:13 · LUK 22:45 · LUK 23:2 · LUK 23:14 · LUK 24:3 · LUK 24:23 · LUK 24:33 · JHN 1:41 · JHN 1:41 · JHN 1:43 · JHN 1:45 · JHN 1:45 · JHN 2:14 · JHN 5:14 · JHN 6:25 · JHN 7:34 · JHN 7:35 · JHN 7:36 · JHN 9:35 · JHN 10:9 · JHN 12:14 · JHN 18:38 · JHN 21:6 · ACT 4:21 · ACT 5:10 · ACT 5:22 · ACT 5:23 · ACT 5:23 · ACT 7:11 · ACT 8:40 · ACT 9:2 · ACT 9:33 · ACT 10:27 · ACT 11:26 · ACT 12:19 · ACT 13:6 · ACT 17:6 · ACT 17:23 · ACT 18:2 · ACT 19:1 · ACT 21:2 · ACT 24:18 · ACT 27:6 · ACT 28:14 · 2CO 2:13 · 2TI 1:17 · HEB 11:5 · 1PE 2:22 · 2PE 3:10 · REV 12:8 · REV 16:20 · REV 18:14 · REV 18:21 · REV 18:22 · REV 20:11
27.1 · Learn · Learn
to learn, to find out, to discover to learn something previously not known, frequently involving an element of surprise
MAT 1:18 · MAT 12:44 · MRK 7:30 · MRK 11:13 · MRK 11:13 · LUK 5:19 · LUK 6:7 · LUK 11:25 · LUK 19:48 · LUK 23:4 · LUK 23:22 · LUK 24:2 · LUK 24:24 · JHN 11:17 · JHN 19:4 · JHN 19:6 · ACT 13:28 · ACT 17:27 · ACT 19:19 · ACT 23:9 · ACT 23:29 · ACT 24:5 · ACT 24:12 · ACT 24:20 · ACT 27:28 · ACT 27:28 · ROM 7:21 · ROM 10:20 · 2CO 9:4 · 2CO 12:20 · 2CO 12:20 · 1PE 1:7 · 2JN 1:4 · REV 2:2 · REV 3:2 · REV 14:5 · REV 18:24 · REV 20:15
13.17 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · State
to attain to, to discover to attain a state, with the supplementary implication of discovery
MAT 10:39 · MAT 10:39 · MAT 16:25 · LUK 1:30 · ACT 7:46 · ROM 4:1 · PHP 3:9 · 2TI 1:18 · HEB 4:16 · HEB 12:17 · REV 9:6
1 MAT 10:39 The implication of ‘to try to’ is derived from the form of the present participle. 2 εὑρίσκομαι in the sense of ‘to be found to be’ is typical of a complex semantic structure which involves not only intellectual discovery but a type of semantic equational relation.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
εὑρίσκω ; impf. εὕρισκον (Mk. xiv. 55 [RG ΤΊ; Lk. xix. 48 [RG‘I’]; Acts vii. 11 [exe. Tr WH]) and more rarely ηὕρισκον (cf. Kiihner § 343, i. 825 sq. [esp. Veitch s. v. fin. ] and reff. under evdoxéw) ; fut. εὑρήσω; pf. εὕρηκα; 1 aor. εὕρησα (which aor., unknown to the earlier Grks., occurs in Aesop. f. 131 [f. 41 ed. Furia, p. 333 ed. Cor.]; Maneth. 5, 137 and in Byzant. writ.; cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p. 721; W. 86 (82); [cf. B. 36 (31)]), Rev. xviii. 14 Ree. ; 2 aor. εὗρον, 1 pers. plur. in Alex. form | WH. App. Ρ. 164; B. 39 (34); W. § 13,1 (see ἀπέρχομαι) | εὕραμεν, Lk. xxiii. 2 T Tr WH, 3 pers. plur. εὗραν, Lk. viii. 35 Tr WH; Acts v. 10 Tr (in Sept. often εὕροσαν) ; Pass., pres. εὑρίσκομαι ; impf. 3 pers. sing. εὑρίσκετο, Heb. xi. 5 RG, ηὑρίσκετο 1, Τ Tr WH, (cf. Bleek and Delitzsch ad loe. [Veitch u. 5.7); 1 aor. εὑρέθην ; fut. εὑρεθήσομαι ; 2 aor. mid. εὑρόμην and later εὑράμην (Heb. ix. 12, [cf. reff. above (on 2 aor. act.) ]); Sept. numberless times for NSD, sometimes for WN to attain to, and for Chald. naw; [fr. Hom. down]; to find; i. e. 1. prop. to come upon, hit upon, tomeet with; a. after searching, to find a thing sought: absol., opp. to ζητεῖν, Mt. vii. 7 sq.; Lk. xi. 9 sq. (ζήτει καὶ εὑρήσεις, Epict. diss. 4, 1, 51); reva, Mt. ii. 8; Mk. i. 37; Lk. ii. 45; Acts xi. 26 (25); xiii. 22; 2 Co. ii. 13 (12); 2 Tim.i.17; Rev. xx. 15, ete.; οὐχ εὑρίσκετο, he had vanished, Heb. xi.5; witha specification of place added: πέραν w. gen. Jn. vi. 25; ἐν w. dat. Acts v. 22; εὑρέθη εἰς, Acts viii. 40 (see eis, C. 2); w. ace. of the thing, Mt. vii. 14; xiii. 46; xviii. 13; Lk. xxiv. 3; Jn. x. 9; Acts vii. 11; Ro. vii. 18 Rec., ete.; foll. by indir. dise., Lk. v. 19; οὐχ εὑρέθησαν, had disappeared, Rev. xvi. 20, οἵ. xviii. 21; w. dat. of advantage, Rev. xx. 11; foll. by ἐν w. dat. of place, Mt. xxi. 19; Rev. xii. 8. τινὰ or τὶ ζητεῖν x. οὐχ εὑρίσκειν: Mt. xii. 43; xxvi.60; Mk. xiv. 55; Lk. xi. 24; xiii. 6 56. dn. vii. 84; Rev. ix. 6,(2K.11.17; Neh. vii.G4; Ps. ix. 36 [x. 15]; Eccl. vii. 29; Ezek. xxii. 30; xxvi. 21 Ald. Comp.; Hos. ii. 7); γῆ καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ ἔργα εὑρεθήσεται shall be found se. for destruction, i. e. will be unable to hide themselves from the doom decreed them by God, 2 Pet. iii. 10 Tr WH, after the strange but improbable reading of codd. 8B and other authorities; [see 111]. Intr. § 365 and App. ad loc.]. b. without previous search, to find (by chance), to fall in with: τινά, Mt. xviii. 28; xxvii. 32; Jn.i. 41 (42), 45 (46) ; v.14; ix. 35; Acts xiii. 6; xviii. 2; xix. 1; xxviii. 14; foll. by ἐν νυ. dat. of place, Jn. ii. 14. ri, Mt. xiii. 44; xvii. 27; Lk. iv. 17; Jn. xii. 14; Acts xvii. 23; foll. by ἐν w. dat. of place, Mt. viii. 10; Lk. vii. 9. 6. εὑρίσκω τινά or τι with a pred. ace. is used of those who come or return to a place. the predicate ptep. or adj. describing the state or condition in which the pers. or thing met with is found, or the action which one is found engaged in: Ww. an adj. Acts v. 10} 2 Οὐ, ix. 4; xii. 20: ov. ἃ ptep. [ef. B. 301 (258)], Mt. xii. 44; xx. 6; xxi. 2; xxiv. 46; xxvi. 40, 43; Mk. xi. 2; xiii.36; xiv. 37, 40; Lk. αν 125; vil. 10; viii. 35; ΧΗ ΡΟ; xii. 37, 43; xix. 30; XX. 25 xxiv. 2; 59: Acts νυν: 295 1x. 2: x. 97: xxi. 2
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
εὑρίσκω heuriskō 176x
to find, to meet with; Mt. 18:28; 20:6; to find out, to detect, discover, Lk. 23:2, 4, 14; to acquire, obtain, win, gain, Lk. 1:30; 9:12; to find mentally, to comprehend, recognize, Acts 17:27; Rom. 7:21; to find by experience, observe, gather, Rom. 7:18; to devise as feasible, Lk. 5:19; 19:48
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
εὑρίσκω,
[in LXX chiefly for מצא, also for נשׂג hi., etc. ;]
to find, with or without previous search: absol., opp. to ζητέω, Mt 7:7, 8 Lk 11:9, 10; c. acc., Mt 2:8, Mk 1:37, Ac 13:22, II Ti 1:17, al.; pass., οὐχ εὑ., of disappearance, He 11:5, Re 16:20, al.; γῆ κ. τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ ἔργα εὑρεθήσεται (for conjectures as to the meaning of this reading, v. Mayor, ICC, in l.), II Pe 3:10, WH, R, mg. Metaph., to find, find out by inquiry, learn, discover: Lk 19:48, Ac 4:21; αἰτίαν, Jo 18:38, Ac 13:28, al.; pass., Mt 1:18, Lk 17:18, Ro 7:10, I Co 4:2, Ga 2:17, I Pe 1:7, Re 5:4, al.; of attaining to the knowledge of God, εὑ. θεόν, Ac 17:27; pass., Ro 10:20 (LXX). Mid., to find for oneself, gain, procure, obtain: c. acc. rei, λύτρωσιν, He 9:12; act. in same sense (so cl. poets, but not in Attic prose), Mt 10:39 11:29, Lk 1:30, Ac 7:46, II Ti 1:18, al. (cf. ἀν-ευρίσκω).
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
εὑρίσκω. P Hib I. 485 (B.c. 255) οὐ γὰρ εὑρίσκω ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις, “for I cannot find the entry in the books” (Edd.), P Tebt I. 58° (B.c. 111) εὑρήκαμεν δὲ τὸν ἐπιδεδωκότα τὸ ὑπόμνηίμα), P Oxy IIT. 53218 (ii/A.D.) καὶ γὰρ ἐν Iladpe τότε σε εὗρον, P Iand 81 (ii/A.D.) ἐὰν τὸ χυτρί]ον εὕρωι (for form cf. Mayser Gr. p. 134 f.), διαπέμψ[ομαι διὰ το]ῦ ὀνολάτου dpep(pve[s: cf. for the passive P Rein 111} (B.c. 111) διὰ τὸ τοῦτον ἐκπεπτωκέναι Kal μὴ εὑρίσκεσθαι, ‘because this man has left the country and is not to be found,” P Oxy IV. 743% (B.C. 2) καὶ εὑρέθη μήτε εἰληφὼς μήτε δεδωκώ(ς), “it was discovered that he had neither received nor paid anything,” and P Giss I. 47* (Hadrian) λείαν ἄξια εὑρῆσθαι. For a weaker sense, as in Mt 2737 a/., see P Tebt II. 3305 (ii/A.D.) παραγενομένου εἰς τὴν κώμην εὗρον τὴν οἰκίαν μου σεσυλημένην, P Gen I. 54%! (iv/A.D.) ἀπελθόντων ἡμῶν ἐκεῖσαι εὑρήκαμεν τὸν πραιπόσιτον τοῦ σάγου ἐκῖσαι. Cf. also Ev. Petr. 6 εὑρέθη wpa ἐνάτη. The verb is used absolutely in the curious acrostic P Tebt II. 278%° (early i/A.D.)
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
εὑρίσκω (ehuriskō) — to find/meet. εὑρίσκω, imperfect ηὕρισκον or εὕρ- [Refs 5th c.BC+]: future εὑρήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 2 εὗρον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural εὕροσαν [LXX+1st c.AD+]; Epic dialect infinitive εὑρέμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+]: later aorist 1 εὕρησα [Refs 4th c.AD+]; εὗρα variant in [NT+2nd c.AD+]: perfect εὕρηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+], perfect imperative 2nd pers. singular εὕρηκε [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, future εὑρήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 2 εὑρόμην [Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist 1 εὑράμην [NT+8th c.BC+]:—passive, future εὑρεθήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ηὑρέθην or εὑρέθην [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.: perfect ηὕρημαι or εὕρ- [Refs 8th c.BC+] has only aorist active and middle, except ἔθ᾽ εὑρίσκω (variant{ἐφευρίσκω}) [Refs 8th c.BC+]: the augment is seldom found in Papyri, ηὕρισκεν [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; never in those of [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—find, εὗρεν δ᾽ εὐρύοπα Κρονίδην ἄτερ ἥμενον ἄλλων [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εὕρημα εὑ., see at {εὕρημα}.
2. with participle, find that.., εὕρισκε Λακεδαιμονίους.. προέχοντας [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—and in passive, ἤν εὑρεθῇς μὴ δίκαιος ὤν [Refs 5th c.BC+]participle omitted, ὅταν τοὺς θεοὺς εὕρω κακούς (i.e. ὄντας) [Refs]; εὑρήσει τοσαῦτα ἔτη (i.e. ὄντα) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; θῆλυς εὕρημαι (i.e. ὤν) [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. with infinitive, εὕρισκε πρῆγμά οἱ εἶναι.. found that the thing for him was.., [Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, εὑρίσκεται (sed to be read εὕρισκέ τε) ταῦτα καιριώτατα εἶναι[Refs]:—active, also, find means, be able, οὐχ εὑρίσκει χρήσασθαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
4. εὑ. ὅπως.. to find by what means.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, c.infinitive, find out or discover how to.., ηὕρετο.. παύειν [Refs 5th c.BC+]
5. passive, εὑρέθη ὅτι.. it was found that.., [LXX]
6. befall, of evils, τινα[LXX]
II. find out, discover, οὐδέ τι μῆχος εὑρέμεναι δυνάμεσθα [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle, εὕρετο τέκμωρ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὄνομ᾽ εὕρεο think of a name to give him, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II.2. with infinitive, get a chance of, be able, ἵνα εὕρωμεν ἐπιστολὴν γράψαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
III. devise, invent, ὀχήματα [Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, τὰ δ᾽ ἔργα τοὺς λόγους εὑρίσκεται deeds make themselves words, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV. get, gain, ἀρετάν, δόξαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μέγ᾽ εὑρεῖν κέρδος[Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὑ. μητρὶ φόνον bring about murder, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, acquire wealth, [LXX]:—middle, find or get for oneself, bring on oneself, οἷ.. αὐτῷ πρώτῳ κακὸν εὕρετο [Refs 8th c.BC+] (so in active, μή πού τις ἐπίσπαστον κακὸν εὕρῃ [Refs 4th c.BC+]: so in perfect passive, μέγα πένθος ηὕρηται [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὑρήσεται τιμωρίην will get for himself, obtain, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὑ. παρά τινος with infinitive, procure from him that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]
V. especially of merchandise, etc., fetch, earn money, εὑροῦσα πολλὸν χρυσίον having fetched a large sum, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἰκία εὑρίσκουσα δισχιλίας (i.e. δραχμάς) [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐγδίδομεν.. τοὺς θριγκοὺς.. ὅτι ἂν εὕρωσιν for what they will fetch, [Refs]; ἐρωτᾶν τί εὑρίσκει what it will fetch, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
V.2. of the sum or bid which secures an article or contract, οἰκέτην.. ἀποδίδοται τοῦ εὑρόντος sells for what he will fetch, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκτιθέτωσαν τὸ εὑρίσκον ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρας δέκα the highest or winning bid, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; προσέβαλον αὐτῷ τοῦ εὑρίσκοντος ἀνὰ [x] ἱερεῖα [x] I have placed at his disposal [x] pigs at the current price of [x], [Refs 3rd c.BC+]