To investigate

Usually translated “having examined”, “examining” and “inquiring”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• having examined 4
• examining 2
• inquiring 2
• are being examined 1
• they are discerned 1
• judges 1
• is judged 1
• i may be examined 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• 1 Corinthians 8
• Acts 5
• Luke 1

3 books in all.

• To recognize (nakhar)
• To investigate (embateuō)

• Acts 4:9If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
• Acts 12:19And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
• Acts 17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
• Acts 24:8Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
• Acts 28:18Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
• 1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “investigate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.