STRONGS G2477:
ἱστορέω: 1 aorist infinitive
ἱστορῆσαι; (
ἴστωρ [allied with
οἶδα (
ἱστῶ), videre (visus), etc.; Curtius, § 282],
-ορος, 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),
τὴν χώραν, Plutarch, Thes. 30; Pomp. 40;
τινά, 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].
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