G426 ἀνετάζω (anetázō)

Greek

Verb

Quick Definition

ἀνετάζω v. I examine judicially

Strong's Definition

to investigate (judicially)

Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and (to test);

KJV Usage: (should have) examined(-d)

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀνετάζω (G0426)

verb | ἐτάζω (examine, test)

56.16 · Courts and Legal Procedures · Judicial Hearing, Inquiry

to interrogate, to examine to interrogate a defendant during a judicial hearing, often by means of torture or lashing In the Roman legal system it was customary to use various forms of physical torture in order to extract confessions from persons who were not Romans and who had been charged with serious crimes, particularly crimes against the state.

ACT 22:24 · ACT 22:29

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀν-ετάζω ; pres. pass. ἀνετάζομαι; (ἐτάζω to examine, test); to investigate, examine; τινά, to examine judicially : Acts xxii. 24, 29. (Jude. vi. 29 cod. Alex.; Sus. [i. 6. Dan. (Theod.) init.] 14; [Anaph. Pilati A 6 p. 417 ed. Taf.]. Not found in prof. auth.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀνετάζω anetazō 2x

to examine thoroughly; to examine by torture, Acts 22:24, 29*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

† ἀν-ετάζω

(< ἀνά, ἐτάζω, to examine; v. MM, VGT, s.v.), [in LXX: Jg 6:29 (דָּרַשׁ), Es 2:23 (בָּקַשׁ), Da TH Su 14*;]

to examine judicially: Ac 22:24, 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-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀνετάζω (anetazō) — to question. ἀνετάζω, inquire of, ἀλλήλους τὴν αἰτίαν[LXX+2nd c.AD+]

II. examine documents, [Refs]; examine by torture, τινά[NT]

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..† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (2)

22:24 22:29

Acts 22:24

the commander ordered that [Paul] be brought into the barracks. He directed that [Paul] be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him.

Acts 22:29

At once... those who were about to interrogate [Paul] stepped back......, and the commander [himself] was alarmed when he realized...... that he had put a Roman citizen {in chains}.