Enquiry
Bible Usage:
- enquiry used twice.
- First Reference: Proverbs 20:25
- Last Reference: Acts 10:17
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Inquiry
INQUI'RY, noun
1. The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation.
The men who were sent from Cornelius, had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate. Acts 10:1.
2. Search for truth, information or knowledge; research; examination into facts or principles by proposing and discussing questions, by solving problems, by experiments or other modes; as physical inquiries; inquiries about philosophical knowledge.
The first inquiry of a rational being should be, who made me? the second, why was I made? who is my Creator, and what is his will?