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Strong's #1830 - ἐξερευνάω
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ἐξερευν-άω
(later ἐξερευν-έραυν- LXX Psalms 118:2(119).2, al.), search out, examine, S. OT 258, El. 1100; τὰ περὶ τὴν πόλιν Aen.Tact. 28.4; λογισμὸς τὰς αἰτίας ἐ. Epicur. Ephesians 1 p.64U.; τὰς προσόδους Plb. 14.1.13, cf. LXX l.c., al.; τὰ πρόσφορ' ἤν πως ἐξερευνήσας λάβω E. Hel. 429: — Med., D.C. 52.6; τόπους Plb. 9.5.8, cf. 18.21.1.
ἐξεραυνάω T Tr WH for ἐξερευνάω, which see; see ἐραυνάω.]
STRONGS NT 1830: ἐξερευνάω ἐξερευνάω, ἐξερεύνω: 1 aorist ἐξηρεύνησα; to search out, search anxiously and diligently: περί τίνος, 1 Peter 1:10 (where T Tr WH ἐξεραυνάω which see). (1 Macc. 3:48 1 Macc. 9:26; the Sept.; Sophocles, Euripides, Polybius, Plutarch, others.)
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For the idea of careful, minute search, as in 1 Peter 1:10, cf., in addition to the LXX passages (1 Maccabees 9:26 al.), Pss Sol 17.11 ἐξηρεύνησε (ὁ θεὸς) τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἀφῆκεν αὐτούς : also Vett. Val. p. 267.5 διαίρεσιν ἐκ πείρας καὶ πόνου ἐξηρευνημένην. On the spelling see s.v. ἐραυνάω.
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