Discover
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
see Appear , A, No. 3.
"to perceive distinctly, discern clearly, descry," is translated "discovered" in Acts 27:39 , AV, of finding a bay with a creek (RV, "perceived"). See Behold.
King James Dictionary [2]
DISCOVER, See Cover.
1. Literally, to uncover to remove a covering. Isaiah 22 . 2. To lay open to the view to disclose to show to make visible to expose to view something before unseen or concealed.
Go, draw aside the curtains and discover the several caskets to this noble prince.
He discovereth deep things out of darkness. Job 12 .
Law can discover sin, but not remove.
3. To reveal to make known.
We will discover ourselves to them. 1 Samuel 14 .
Discover not a secret to another. Proverbs 25 .
4. To espy to have the first sight of as, a man at mast-head discovered land.
When we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand. Acts 21 .
5. To find out to obtain the first knowledge of to come to the knowledge of something sought or before unknown. Columbus discovered the variation of the magnetic needle. We often discover our mistakes, when too late to prevent their evil effects. 6. To detect as, we discovered the artifice the thief, finding himself discovered, attempted to escape.
Discover differs from invent. We discover what before existed, though to us unknown we invent what did not before exist.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
DISCOVER . In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘discover’ is used in some obsolete meanings. 1 . To uncover , make to be seen, as Knox, Hist . p. 250, ‘who rashly discovering himself in the Trenches, was shot in the head.’ So Psalms 29:9 , ‘The voice of the Lord … discovereth the forests,’ and other passages. 2 . To disclose , as Shakespeare, Merry Wives , II. ii. 190, ‘I shall discover a thing to you.’ So Proverbs 25:9 , ‘discover not a secret to another,’ etc. 3. To descry , get sight of, as Acts 21:3 , ‘When we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand’; Acts 27:39 ‘they discovered a certain creek.’
Webster's Dictionary [4]
(1): ( v. i.) To discover or show one's self.
(2): ( v. t.) To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).
(3): ( v. t.) To explore; to examine.
(4): ( v. t.) To manifest without design; to show.
(5): ( v. t.) To uncover.
(6): ( v. t.) To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [5]
Micah 1:6 , to uncover, or lay bare.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [6]
dis - kuv´ẽr : In modern usage the word "discover" signifies "to get first sight or knowledge of," "to ascertain," or "to explore." Such usage appears in 1 Samuel 22:6 of the discovery of David's hiding-place, where the Hebrew uses ידע , yādha‛ ̌ . In the King James Version the word "discover" often occurs in a sense now archaic or even obsolete. (Note in the cases cited below the Hebrew word is גּלה , gālāh , except Jeremiah 13:26 ( חשׁף , ḥāshaph , "to make bare") and Habakkuk 3:13 ( ערר , ‛ārar , "to make naked").) (1) "To exhibit," "uncover" (or "betray"), in which examples the English Revised Version also reads with the King James Version "discover"; the American Standard Revised Version "uncover" ( Exodus 20:26; Job 12:22; Isaiah 57:8 ("discovered thyself" the King James Version and the English Revised Version); Jeremiah 13:26; Lamentations 2:14; Hosea 7:1; Nahum 3:5 ). (2) "To cause to be no longer a covering," "to lay bare" ( 2 Samuel 22:16 the King James Version). (3) "To bring to light," "disclose" ( 1 Samuel 14:8 , 1 Samuel 14:11 (the English Revised Version with the King James Version "discover")). (4) "To unmask" or "reveal oneself" ( Proverbs 18:2 the King James Version). (5) "To take away the covering of" ( Isaiah 22:8 the King James Version). (6) "To lay bare" ( Habakkuk 3:13 ). In Psalm 29:9 , the King James Version reads: "The voice of the Lord ... discovereth the forests," where the Revised Version (British and American) reads, "strippeth the forests bare," i.e. "strippeth the forests of their leaves" (Perowne, The Psalms , I, 248); "strippeth bare the forests" (Briggs, Psalms , I, 251, 253).
In the New Testament (the King James Version), the word "discover" occurs as a translation of the Greek anaphánantes in Acts 21:3 , and for katenóoun in Acts 27:39 , where the Revised Version (British and American) reads in the first instance "had come in sight of," and in the latter case "perceived."
