Lexical Summary
anazéteó: To seek carefully, to search diligently
Original Word: ἀναζητέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: anazéteó
Pronunciation: an-ad-zay-teh'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (an-ad-zay-teh'-o)
KJV: seek
NASB: looking, look
Word Origin: [from G303 (ἀνά - each) and G2212 (ζητέω - seek)]
1. to search out
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
seek.
From ana and zeteo; to search out -- seek.
see GREEK ana
see GREEK zeteo
HELPS Word-studies
327 anazētéō (from 303 /aná, "up to down," intensifying 2212 /zētéō, "seek") – properly, search up and down; fully inquire (thoroughly investigate).
327 /anazētéō ("search up-and-down") conveys persistent seeking – "not easily put off by difficulties" (Souter) because driven by the felt (personal) need of the seeker.
[The intensifying prefix (ana, "again/up") implies "determined seeking" (as also in the papyri, MM).]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
ana and
zéteóDefinitionto seek carefully
NASB Translationlook (1), looking (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 327: ἀναζητέωἀναζητέω,
(ῶ; (imperfect
ἀνεζήτουν); 1 aorist
ἀνεζήτησα; 'to run through with the eyes any series or succession of men or things, and so
to seek out, search through, make diligent search, German
daranhinsuchen,
aufsuchen' (
Winer's De verb. comp. etc. Part 3, p. 14):
τινα,
Luke 2:44 (and
Luke 2:45 L text
T Tr WH);
Acts 11:25. (See examples from Greek writings (from
Plato on) in
Winer's, the passage cited.)
