Search:
surch: Some peculiar senses are:
(1) In the books of Moses, especially in Nu, "searching out the land" means to spy out (raggel), to investigate carefully, to examine with a view to giving a full and accurate report on.
(2) When applied to the Scriptures, as in Ezr 4:15,19 (baqqer); Joh 5:39; 1Pe 1:11 (eraunao), it means to examine, to study out the meaning. In Ac 17:11, the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "examining" for the "searched" of the King James Version. See SEARCHINGS.
(3) "Search out" often means to study critically, to investigate carefully, e.g. Job 8:8; 29:16; Ec 1:13; La 3:40; Mt 2:8; 1Co 2:10; 1Pe 1:10.
(4) When the word is applied to God's searching the heart or spirit, it means His opening up, laying bare, disclosing what was hidden, e.g. 1Ch 28:9; Ps 44:21; 139:1; Pr 20:27; Jer 17:10; Ro 8:27.
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Search:
an earlier form, "to search, examine," is used
(a) of God, as "searching" the heart, Rom 8:27;
(b) of Christ, similarly, Rev 2:23;
(c) of the Holy Spirit, as "searching" all things, 1Cr 2:10, acting in the spirit of the believer;
(d) of the OT prophets, as "searching" their own writings concerning matters foretold of Christ, testified by the Spirit of Christ in them, 1Pe 1:11 (cp. No. 2);
(e) of the Jews, as commanded by the Lord to "search" the Scriptures, Jhn 5:39, AV, and RV marg., "search," RV text, "ye search," either is possible grammatically;
(f) of Nicodemus as commanded similarly by the chief priests and Pharisees, Jhn 7:52.
2Strong's Number: g1830Greek: exeraunaoSearch:
a strengthened form of No. 1 (ek, or ex, "out"), "to search out," is used in 1Pe 1:10, "searched diligently;" cp. No. 1 (d).
3Strong's Number: g1833Greek: exetazoSearch:
"to examine closely, inquire carefully" (from etazo, "to examine"), occurs in Mat 2:8, RV, "search out;" so Mat 10:11, RV: see INQUIRE, No. 4.
Note: For anakrino, rendered "searched" in Act 17:11, AV, see EXAMINE.
Searchings:
sur'-chingz (chiqre (lebh), from chaqar, to "search," "explore," "examine thoroughly"): In the song of Deborah the Reubenites are taunted because their great resolves of heart, chiqeqe lebh, led to nothing but great "searchings" of heart, chiqre lebh, and no activity other than to remain among their flocks (Jud 5:15 f). The first of the two Hebrew expressions so emphatically contrasted (though questioned by commentators on the authority of 5 manuscripts as a corruption of the second) can with reasonable certainty be interpreted "acts prescribed by one's understanding" (compare the expressions chakham lebh, nebhon lebh, in which the heart is looked upon as the seat of the understanding). The second expression may mean either irresolution or hesitation based on selfish motives, as the heart was also considered the seat of the feelings, or answerability to God (compare Jer 17:10; Pr 25:3); this rendering would explain the form liphelaghoth in Jud 5:16, literally, ‘for the water courses of Reuben, great the searchings of heart!'
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