Quick Definition
I examine judicially
Strong's Definition
to investigate (judicially)
Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and (to test);
KJV Usage: (should have) examined(-d)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνετάζω; present passive ἀνετάζομαι; (ἐτάζω to examine, test); to investigate, examine; τινα, to examine judicially: Act_22:24; Act_22:29. (Jdg_6:29 manuscript Alex.; Susanna (i. e. Daniel (Theod.) at the beginning) 14; (Anaph. Pilati A 6, p. 417, Tischendorf edition). Not found in secular authors.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀνετάζω anetazō 2x
to examine thoroughly; to examine by torture, Act_22:24 ; Act_22:29
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀν -ετάζω
( < ἀνά , ἐτάζω , to examine; v. MM , VGT , s.v. ),
[in LXX : Jdg_6:29 ( H1875 ), Ezr_2:23 ( H1245 ), Da TH Su 1:14 * ;]
to examine judicially: Act_22:24 ; Act_22:29 .. †
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀνετάζω [page 42]
In P Oxy I. 34 i. 13 (A.D. 127) a prefect uses this word in directing Government clerks whose business it was to examine documents and glue them into τόμοι . This is one of the words which Grimm characterizes as not found in prof, auth., occurring first in LXX. The compound ( Act_22:24 ; Act_22:29 ), now vindicated as sufficiently profane, was as rare as its simplex (cf. Wis_2:19 ) : it may be suspected that the common ἐξετάζω to get out the truth, (ἐτεός see Boisacq Dict. Etym. , p. 291) was the original from which both ἐτάζω and ἀνετάζω (and παρετάζω in Arcadian) were devised.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀνετάζω "to examine closely", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀν-ετάζω
(ἀνά, ἐτάζω, to examine; see MM, VGT, see word), [in LXX: Jdg.6:29 (דָּרַשׁ), Est.2:23 (בָּקַשׁ), Da TH Su 1:14 * ;]
to examine judicially: Act.22:24, 29..†
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