εὑρίσκω ehuriskō

Greek word for “to find/meet” · Strong’s G2147 · used 176 times in 167 verses

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Meaning

εὑρίσκω; to find, with or without previous search: absol., opposite to ζητέω;

How it is translated

Glosses given for ehuriskō in context, with how often each is used:

• found 59
• having found 21
• will find 20
• finds 12
• have found 9
• find 8
• finding 6
• may find 6
• may be found 6
• shall find 3
• finding any 2
• may have found 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 15 (7), Luke 24 (5), Mark 14 (4), Luke 11 (4), Luke 23 (4), Acts 5 (4), Acts 24 (4), Revelation 18 (4), Matthew 7 (3), Matthew 26 (3)

Forms

• εὗρον 31
• εὗρεν 16
• εὑρέθη 13
• εὑρίσκει 10
• εὑρήσετε 8
• εὑρὼν 8
• εὑρήσει 8
• εὑρόντες 8
• εὑρίσκω 6
• εὑρεῖν 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with ehuriskō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ζητέω zēteō “to seek” 19
• ἐξέρχομαι exerchomai “to go out” 15
• οὐδείς oudeis “none” 14
• ἀπολλύω apolluō “to destroy” 10
• ἐκεῖνος ekeinos “that” 11
• εἰ ei “if” 12
• αἰτέω aiteō “to ask” 7
• ἀνοίγω anoigō “to open” 7
• διέρχομαι dierchomai “to pass through” 6
• τόπος topos “place” 7
• θάνατος thanatos “death” 7
• καθεύδω katheudō “to sleep” 5

Key verses

The verses using ehuriskō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 7:7 — Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
• Matthew 11:29 — Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
• Luke 11:9 — And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
• Luke 23:2 — And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar, saying that he himself is Christ a…
• John 1:45 — Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
• Acts 24:5 — For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
• 2 Corinthians 12:20 — For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings,…
• Philippians 3:9 — And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God…
• Hebrews 9:12 — Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
• 1 Peter 1:7 — That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and…
• 2 Peter 3:10 — But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with…
• Revelation 20:11 — And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.