ἱστορέω: 1 aorist infinitive ἱστορῆσαι; (ἴστωρ (allied with οἶδα (ἱστῶ), videre (visus), etc.; Curtius, § 282), ἱστορος, one that has inquired into, knowing, skilled in); from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; 1. to inquire into, examine, investigate. 2. to find out, learn, by inquiry. 3. to gain knowledge of by visiting: something (worthy of being seen), τήν χώραν, Plutarch, Thes. 30; Pomp. 40; τινα, some distinguished person, to become personally acquainted with, know face to face: Gal_1:18; so too in Josephus, Antiquities 1, 11, 4; b. j. 6, 1, 8 and often in the Clement. homilies; cf. Hilgenfeld, Galaterbrief, p. 122 note; (Ellicott on Galatians, the passage cited).

ἱστορέω historeō 1x to ascertain by inquiry and examination; to inquire of; in NT to visit in order to become acquainted with, Gal_1:18

** ἱστορέω , -ῶ ( < ἵστωρ , one learned or skilled in ), [in LXX : 1Es_1:33 ; 1Es_1:42 * ;] 1. c . acc rei , to inquire into, learn by inquiry. 2. C . acc pers ., to inquire of or about. 3. to narrate, record. 4. In late writers, to visit, become acquainted with: Gal_1:18 (v. Ellic ., in l , and cf. MM , Exp., xv).†

ἱστορέω [page 308] The only NT sense of this word = visit ( Gal_1:18 ) is paralleled in the interesting scrap of a traveller s letter P Lond 854 .5 (i/ii A.D.) (= III. p. 206, Selections , p. 70) ἵνα τὰς χε [ι ]ρ̣ο̣π̣[οι ]ή [τους τέ ]χνας ἱστορήσωσι : cf. .10 εὔτομα ( l. εὔστομα ) ἱστόρ [η ]σα̣. It is used often thus (= inspicio) in the inscrr. e.g. OG1S 694 (Rom.) Ἑρμογένης Ἀμασ [εὺ ]ς [τὰς ] μὲν ἄλλας σύρινγας ἰδὼν ἐθαύμασα , τὴν δὲ τοῦ Μέμνονος ταύτην εἱστορήσας ὑπερεθαύμασα , and in the wall-scratchings of visitors to the royal tombs at Thebes, e.g. Preisigke 1004 (Rom.) Ἰούλιος Δημήτριος χειλίαρχος ἱστορήσας ἐθαύμασα : cf. also the Theban inscr., Kaibel 1020 Τατιανὸς ἡγεμὼν Θηβάιδος ἱστορήσα [ς ] ἐθαύμασεν τὸ θαῦ [μα ξ ]υνὸν τῶν σοφῶν Αἰγυπ [τί ]ων . For the verb = relate, see BGU IV. 1208 .5 (B.C. 27 6) πιττάκ ]ιον , δι᾽ οὗ [μοι ] ἱστορεῖς τὴν [Καλατύ ]τεως πλ̣[άν ]ην , P Oxy VII. 1027 .11 (i/A.D.) ὑπόμνημα . . . δι᾽ οὗ ματαίως εἱστορεῖ περί τε τοῦ ἀγνοεῖν α [ὐ ]τὸν τὴν τῶν ἐμοὶ γενη [μένων ] ( l. γεγενη [μένων ]) ἀσφαλιῶν θέσιν , a memorandum wherein he vainly relates that he was ignorant of the securities which had been given to me (Ed.) : cf. the use of the compound συνιστορέω in BGU IV. 1141 .49 (B.C. 14), PSI I. 64 .21 (i/B.C. ?) al The subst. ἱστορία , which survives in MGr = narrative, history, may be illustrated from OGIS 13 .12 ( c. B.C. 300 290), where the Prienians are represented as establishing their possession of a certain district ἔκ τε τῶν ἱστοριῶν κ [αὶ ἐκ τῶν ἄλ ]λων μαρτυριῶν . For its use in Byzantine literature = painting, owing to the development of picture histories, see Birt Buchrolle , p. 307 f.

ἱστορέω [Etym: ἵστωρ] "to inquire into" a thing, "to learn by inquiry", Hdt. , Aesch. , etc.; "to examine", and in perf. sense, "to know", Aesch. c. acc. pers. "to inquire of, ask", Hdt. , Eur. :—Pass. "to be questioned", Eur. c. acc. pers. also "to inquire about" one, Soph. , Eur. c. dupl. acc. "to inquire of" one "about" a thing, Eur. absol. "to inquire", Hdt. "to narrate what one has learnt", Arist. , Luc.

ἱστορέω, -ῶ (ἵστωρ, one learned or skilled in) [in LXX: 1Es.1:33 Est.1:42 * ;] __1. with accusative of thing(s), to inquire into, learn by inquiry. __2. C. accusative of person(s), to inquire of or about. __3. to narrate, record. __4. In late writers, to visit, become acquainted with: Gal.1:18 (see Ellic., in l, and cf. MM, Exp., xv).† (AS)