Original Word: ἱστορέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: historeó
Phonetic Spelling: (his-tor-eh'-o)
Short Definition: I get acquainted with, visit
Definition: I get acquainted with, visit.

2477 historéō(from histōr) – properly, learn by inquiring (doing a personal examination); to gain knowledge by "visiting" which conducts "a full interview."

STRONGS NT 2477: ἱστορέω

ἱστορέω: 1 aorist infinitive ἱστορῆσαι; (ἴστωρ (allied with οἶδα (ἱστῶ), videre (visus), etc.; Curtius, § 282), ἱστορος, one that has inquired into, knowing, skilled in); from Aeschylus and Herodotus down;

1. to inquire into, examine, investigate.

2. to find out, learn, by inquiry.

3. to gain knowledge of by visiting: something (worthy of being seen), τήν χώραν, Plutarch, Thes. 30; Pomp. 40; τινα, some distinguished person, to become personally acquainted with, know face to face: Galatians 1:18; so too in Josephus, Antiquities 1, 11, 4; b. j. 6, 1, 8 and often in the Clement. homilies; cf. Hilgenfeld, Galaterbrief, p. 122 note; (Ellicott on Galatians, the passage cited).

visit, interview

From a derivative of eido; to be knowing (learned), i.e. (by implication) to visit for information (interview) -- see.

see GREEK eido

ιστόν ιστορησαι ιστορήσαι ἱστορῆσαι ιστός ισχίων ισχνόφωνος ισχνόφωνός historesai historêsai historēsai historē̂sai istoresai istorēsaiInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts