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To question

ἀνετάζωStrong’s G0426

anetazō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Anetazō is the Greek word usually translated “examined” and “examine”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.”
Acts 22:24 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • to be examined 1
  • to examine 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Acts 2

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἀνετάζω anetazō · to question

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)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

QUESTION, noun

ques'chun. [Latin quaestio. See Quest.]

  1. The act of asking; an interrogatory; as, to examine by question and answer.
  2. That which is asked; something proposed which is to be solved by answer.
  3. Inquiry; disquisition; discussion.
  4. Dispute or subject of debate.“There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews, about purifying” John 3:25
All definitions and other forms of “question”
  1. Doubt; controversy; dispute.
  2. Trial; examination; judicial trial or inquiry.“Of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question” Acts 23:6
  3. Examination by torture.
  4. Endeavor; effort; act of seeking. [Not in use.]
  5. In logic, a proposition stated by way of interrogation.

QUES'TION, verb intransitive

  1. To ask a question or questions; to inquire by interrogatory or proposition to be answered.
  2. To debate by interrogatories.

QUES'TION, verb transitive

  1. To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
  2. To doubt of; to be uncertain of.
  3. To have no confidence in; to treat as doubtful.

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

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.