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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #198 - ἀκριβόω

Transliteration

akribóō

Phonetics

ak-ree-bo'-o

Origin

from the same as (G196)

Parts of Speech

verb

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to know accurately, to do exactly
to investigate diligently

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (3)

Matthew 3

BSB (2)

Matthew 2

CSB (2)

Matthew 2

ESV (2)

Matthew 2

KJV (3)

Matthew 3

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (0)

The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

N95 (0)

The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number

NAS (0)

The New American Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

NLT (2)

Matthew 3

WEB (3)

Matthew 3

YLT (2)

Matthew 2

ASV (3)

and learned 1

exactly 1

he had exactly learned 1

BSB (2)

and learned 1

he had learned 1

CSB (2)

asked 1

learned 1

ESV (2)

ascertained 2

KJV (3)

diligently 1

enquired 2

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (0)

The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

N95 (0)

The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number

NAS (0)

The New American Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

NLT (2)

learned 1

report 1

WEB (3)

and learned 1

exactly 1

he had learned 1

YLT (2)

did inquire exactly 1

he inquired exactly 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

V-AAI-3S 2

ANT

V-AAI-3S 2

BEZ

V-AAI-3S 2

BGB

V-AAI-3S 2

BMT

V-AAI-3S 2

BYZ

V-AAI-3S 2

ELZ

V-AAI-3S 2

NA26

V-3AAIS 2

SBL

V-AAI-3S 2

SCV

V-AAI-3S 2

STV

V-AAI-3S 2

TIS

V-AAI-3S 2

TRG

V-AAI-3S 2

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἀκρῑβ-όω, fut. -ώσω,

1. make exact or accurate, E. Hipp. 469; ἀ. τάδε to be perfect in bearing these hardships, X. Cyr. 2.3.13; arrange precisely, Ar. Ec. 274: — Pass., to be exact or perfect, Ar. Ra. 1483; ἠκριβῶσθαι πρὸς πᾶσαν ἀρετήν Arist. Pol. 1279b1. — Later in Med., J. AJ 17.2.2, Eust. 1799.33, etc.

2. investigate accurately, understand thoroughly, οἱ τάδ' ἠκριβωκότες E. Hec. 1192, cf. X. Cyr. 2.2.9; τοὔνομά μου σὺ ἀκριβοῖς; are you sure of..? Pl. Chrm. 156a; inquire carefully of, τὸν χρόνον Matthew 2:7 : — Pass., Vett.Val. 265.3.

3. describe accurately, τι Phld. Lib. p.47 O.

4. abs., to be exact, ἡ φύσις οὐκ ἀκριβοῖ Arist. GA 778a6; [ ὁ ἄνθρωπος] κατὰ τὴν ἁφὴν διαφερόντως ἀκριβοῖ Id. de An. 421a22; ἀ. περί τι GA 780b26.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἀκριβόω, (ῶ: 1 aorist ἠκρίβωσα); (ἀκριβής);

1. in secular writings, to know accurately, to do exactly.

2. to investigate diligently: Matthew 2:7, 16 (ἀκριβῶς ἐξετάζειν, Matthew 2:8); Aristotle, gen. anim. 5, 1; Philo, m. opif. § 25 μετά πάσης ἐξετάσεως ἀκριβοῦντες. (Al. to learn exactly, ascertain; cf. Fritzsche or Meyer on Matthew, as above.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

** ἀκριβόω , -ῶ

(< ἀκριβής ),

[in Aq.: Isaiah 30:8; Isaiah 49:16*;]

to enquire with exactness, learn carefully: Matthew 2:7; Matthew 2:16 (for similar ex., v. MM, VGT, sv.).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

This fairly common classical and Hellenistic verb does not happen to occur in the papyri, so far as we have noticed We might add to the literary record Vettius Valens p. 265.3 τούτων οὕτως κατ᾽ ἐξέτασιν ἠκριβωμένων, which has exactly the same sense as in Matthew 2:16.

List of Word Forms

ηκρίβωσε ηκριβωσεν ἠκρίβωσεν ekribosen ekríbosen ēkribōsen ēkríbōsen