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Koine Greek wordlink #156527

SR GNT Rev 2:23 ἐραυνῶν (eraunōn) ‘I am the one searching kidneys and hearts’ Strongs=20450 Lemma=eraunaō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=active case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=96 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form ἐραυνῶν (V-PPA·NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐραυνῶν’ (V-PPA·NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘searching’.

Rom 8:27 ‘the one and searching our hearts has known’ SR GNT Rom 8:27 word 3

OET-LV: 27 And the one searching our hearts has _known what is the mindset of _the spirit, because according _to god, it _is _pleading for the_holy ones. (ROM_8:27)

OET-RV: 27 The one who searches our hearts knows the mindset of the spirit because the spirit intercedes for the believers as God desires. (ROM 8:27)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘eraunaō’ have 4 different glosses: ‘is searching’, ‘you_all are searching’, ‘search’, ‘searching’.

Greek words (3) other than ἐραυνῶν (V-PPA·NMS) with a gloss related to ‘searching’

YHN 5:39 Ἐραυνᾶτε (Eraunate) V-IPA2··P ‘you_all are searching the scriptures because’ SR GNT Yhn 5:39 word 1

OET-LV: 39 You _all _are _searching the scriptures, because you _all are _supposing to _be _having eternal life in them, and those are the ones testifying concerning me, (JHN_5:39)

OET-RV: 39 You look in the Jewish scriptures because you suppose that they’ll lead you to eternal life. Those very scriptures testify about me coming, (JHN 5:39)

1 COR 2:10 ἐραυνᾷ (erauna) V-IPA3··S ‘for spirit all things is searching even the depths’ SR GNT 1 Cor 2:10 word 16

OET-LV: 10 To _us for revealed it the god through the spirit, because/for the spirit all things is _searching, even the depths of_ the _god. (CO1_2:10)

OET-RV: 10 But God has revealed it to us through his spirit, because his spirit strives to know the meaning of everything, even the deep things of God. (CO1 2:10)

1 PET 1:11 ἐραυνῶντες (eraunōntes) V-PPA·NMP ‘searching into who or’ SR GNT 1 Pet 1:11 word 1

OET-LV: 11 searching into who or what time the spirit of_chosen _one /messiah in them was _making _evident, previously _testifying the sufferings for the_chosen _one /messiah, and the after these things glories. (PE1_1:11)

OET-RV: 11 They tried to discover which person or what time the messiah’s spirit within them was telling them about, having previously testified that the messiah would suffer but afterwards would be GLORIOUS. (PE1 1:11)

Key: V=verb