Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

εὑρίσκω

Vocabulary form: 
euJrivskw
Definition: 

I find

Frequency: 
176
GK: 
2351
Root: 
euJr
Forms: 
(eu{riskon), euJrhvsw, eu|ron and eu|ra, eu{rhka, -, euJrevqhn
Cognates: 

Heuristic is an adjective that describes a person who learns by discovery.

Eureka, meaning "I found it," is an interjection used by Archimedes when he discovered how to measure the purity of the king's gold crown.

Mnemonic Singing: 

Lord now indeed I find
thy power and thine alone.

Notes: 

An h is inserted after the tense stem in the future active, just as in givnomai.

Biblical Concordance

Acts 5:23 saying, “We (heuromen | εὕρομεν | aor act ind 1 pl) found (heuromen | εὕρομεν | aor act ind 1 pl) the prison locked with every security and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened it we (heuromen | εὕρομεν | aor act ind 1 pl) found (heuromen | εὕρομεν | aor act ind 1 pl) no one inside.”
Acts 5:39 but if it is of God, you will not be able to stop them; lest you (heurethēte | εὑρεθῆτε | aor pass subj 2 pl) be (heurethēte | εὑρεθῆτε | aor pass subj 2 pl) found (heurethēte | εὑρεθῆτε | aor pass subj 2 pl) opposing God!” They were persuaded by him,
Acts 7:11 Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great affliction, and our fathers could (hēyriskon | ηὕρισκον | imperf act ind 3 pl) find (hēyriskon | ηὕρισκον | imperf act ind 3 pl) no food.
Acts 7:46 who found (heuren | εὗρεν | aor act ind 3 sg) favor in the sight of God and asked to find (heurein | εὑρεῖν | aor act inf ) a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
Acts 8:40 But Philip was found (heurethē | εὑρέθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) at Azotus; and as he traveled through the area he announced the good news to all the towns, until he came to Caesarea.
Acts 9:2 and requested from him letters to Damascus addressed to the synagogues, that if he (heurē | εὕρῃ | aor act subj 3 sg) found (heurē | εὕρῃ | aor act subj 3 sg) any who were of the Way, men or women, he should bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Acts 9:33 And he found (heuren | εὗρεν | aor act ind 3 sg) there a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed.
Acts 10:27 And as he talked with him, he went inside and found (heuriskei | εὑρίσκει | pres act ind 3 sg) many people gathered.
Acts 11:26 and when he had found (heurōn | εὑρών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc) him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a considerable number of people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 12:19 And after Herod searched for him and could (heurōn | εὑρών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc) not find (heurōn | εὑρών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc) him, he examined the guards and ordered them to be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.
Acts 13:6 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they met (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 3 pl) a certain man, a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus,
Acts 13:22 After removing him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he said by way of testimony: ‘I have found (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 1 sg) in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do everything I want him to.’
Acts 13:28 And though (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) they (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) found (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) no crime deserving death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
Acts 17:6 But when (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) they (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) could (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) not find (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) them, they dragged Jason and some fellow believers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,
Acts 17:23 For as I went around and observed your objects of worship, I found (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 1 sg) also an altar on which was inscribed, ‘To an unknown god.’ So what you worship without knowing, this I proclaim to you.
Acts 17:27 that they should seek God, if perhaps that they might grope for him and find (heuroien | εὕροιεν | aor act opt 3 pl) him, though indeed he is not far from each one of us.
Acts 18:2 And finding (heurōn | εὑρών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc) a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome, he approached them,
Acts 19:1 And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. There he found (heurein | εὑρεῖν | aor act inf ) some disciples
Acts 19:19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts collected their books and burned them up in the sight of all. And they calculated the value of them and found (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 3 pl) it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Acts 21:2 And finding (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) a ship bound for Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.
Acts 23:9 Then there arose a great uproar, and certain of the scribes of the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested vigorously, saying, “We (heuriskomen | εὑρίσκομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) find (heuriskomen | εὑρίσκομεν | pres act ind 1 pl) nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
Acts 23:29 I (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 1 sg) found (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 1 sg) him accused in regard to questions of their law, but with no charge deserving death or imprisonment.
Acts 24:5 For we found (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Acts 24:12 and they did not find (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 3 pl) me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in the city.
Acts 24:18 which I was doing when they found (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 3 pl) me, ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without a commotion.
Acts 24:20 Or let these men themselves tell what wrongdoing they found (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 3 pl) when I stood before the council,
Acts 27:6 There the centurion found (heurōn | εὑρών | aor act ptcp nom sg masc) a ship from Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board it.
Acts 27:28 So they (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 3 pl) took soundings and found (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 3 pl) twenty fathoms; and after a short distance they (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 3 pl) took soundings again and found (heuron | εὗρον | aor act ind 3 pl) fifteen fathoms.
Acts 28:14 where we found (heurontes | εὑρόντες | aor act ptcp nom pl masc) brethren, and were invited to stay with them seven days. And so we went toward Rome.
Romans 4:1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has (heurēkenai | εὑρηκέναι | perf act inf ) discovered (heurēkenai | εὑρηκέναι | perf act inf ) about this?
Romans 7:10 and I died. I found (heurethē | εὑρέθη | aor pass ind 3 sg) that the very commandment that promised life brought death to me!
Romans 7:21 So I find (heuriskō | εὑρίσκω | pres act ind 1 sg) it to be a law that when I want to do good, evil is present in me.
Romans 10:20 Then Isaiah very boldly says, “I was found (heurethēn | εὑρέθην | aor pass ind 1 sg) by those who were not looking for me; I became well known to those who were not asking for me.”
1 Corinthians 4:2 In this connection then, it is required of stewards that they be (heurethē | εὑρεθῇ | aor pass subj 3 sg) found (heurethē | εὑρεθῇ | aor pass subj 3 sg) trustworthy.
1 Corinthians 15:15 Beyond that, we are even found (heuriskometha | εὑρισκόμεθα | pres pass ind 1 pl) to be false witnesses about God, because we have borne witness about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
2 Corinthians 2:13 I had no relief for my spirit, because (heurein | εὑρεῖν | aor act inf ) I could (heurein | εὑρεῖν | aor act inf ) not find (heurein | εὑρεῖν | aor act inf ) my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and went on to Macedonia.
2 Corinthians 5:3 so that after we have taken off our earthly house we (heurethēsometha | εὑρεθησόμεθα | fut pass ind 1 pl) will (heurethēsometha | εὑρεθησόμεθα | fut pass ind 1 pl) not be (heurethēsometha | εὑρεθησόμεθα | fut pass ind 1 pl) found (heurethēsometha | εὑρεθησόμεθα | fut pass ind 1 pl) naked.
2 Corinthians 9:4 Lest perhaps if some Macedonians should come with me and not find (heurōsin | εὕρωσιν | aor act subj 3 pl) you ready, we — to say nothing of you — would be humiliated by this confidence.
2 Corinthians 11:12 And what I am doing I will continue to do, so as to remove any opportunity from those desiring an opportunity to be (heurethōsin | εὑρεθῶσιν | aor pass subj 3 pl) regarded (heurethōsin | εὑρεθῶσιν | aor pass subj 3 pl), in the things in which they boast, to be just as we are.
2 Corinthians 12:20 For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I (heurō | εὕρω | aor act subj 1 sg) may (heurō | εὕρω | aor act subj 1 sg) find (heurō | εὕρω | aor act subj 1 sg) you not as I would wish, and that I may be found (heurethō | εὑρεθῶ | aor pass subj 1 sg) by you not as you would wish; perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, flaring anger, selfish ambition, backbiting, gossiping, conceit, disorder.
Galatians 2:17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found (heurethēmen | εὑρέθημεν | aor pass ind 1 pl) to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Of course not!
Philippians 2:7 but emptied himself, taking on the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of man. And being (heuretheis | εὑρεθείς | aor pass ptcp nom sg masc) found (heuretheis | εὑρεθείς | aor pass ptcp nom sg masc) in appearance as a man
Philippians 3:9 and be found (heurethō | εὑρεθῶ | aor pass subj 1 sg) in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that is based on faith —
2 Timothy 1:17 but being in Rome, he earnestly searched for me and found (heuren | εὗρεν | aor act ind 3 sg) me.
2 Timothy 1:18 May the Lord grant him to find (heurein | εὑρεῖν | aor act inf ) mercy from the Lord on that day. And the services he performed in Ephesus you know very well.
Hebrews 4:16 Therefore let us approach with confidence the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find (heurōmen | εὕρωμεν | aor act subj 1 pl) grace for help when we need it.
Hebrews 9:12 he entered once for all into the Most Holy Place, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus (heuramenos | εὑράμενος | aor mid ptcp nom sg masc) obtaining (heuramenos | εὑράμενος | aor mid ptcp nom sg masc) an eternal redemption.
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he (hēyrisketo | ηὑρίσκετο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) could (hēyrisketo | ηὑρίσκετο | imperf pass ind 3 sg) not be found (hēyrisketo | ηὑρίσκετο | imperf pass ind 3 sg), because God had taken him. For before he was taken he had been approved as one who had been pleasing to God,
Hebrews 12:17 For you know that even afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he (heuren | εὗρεν | aor act ind 3 sg) found (heuren | εὗρεν | aor act ind 3 sg) no opportunity for repentance, even though he sought the blessing earnestly with tears.
1 Peter 1:7 so that the genuineness of your faith (which is more precious than gold that perishes), having been tested by fire, may be found (heurethē | εὑρεθῇ | aor pass subj 3 sg) to your praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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