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Notes: ἱστορέω can perhaps best be interpreted as combining two different domains: (1) the domain of Association (34) involving visiting and (2) the domain of Communication (33) involving the soliciting of information. This is a typical example of a meaning which overlaps two domains.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to visit and get information

Semantic entry: 34.52

Semantic domains: Association

Subdomains: Visit

Definition: to visit, with the purpose of obtaining information{N:001}

Notes: In rendering ‘to get information from him’ it may be more satisfactory to say ‘to learn something from him’ or ‘to have him tell me what I needed to know.’

Show passage in OET: GAL 1:18

OET-RV GAL 1:18

18 Then finally, after three years, I went to Yerushalem to get to know Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros), and stayed with him for just over two weeks.

OET-LV GAL 1:18

18 Then after three years, I _went _up to Hierousalaʸm to _become _acquainted with _Kaʸfas, and I _remained _on with him fifteen days.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἱστορέω

Form 1

Sense 1: to visit and get information