εὑρέθη (eurethe) in Matthew 1:18: Verb Third Person Singular Aorist Passive Indicative

Verb: the form names an action or state, and here it presents the finding as a reported event in the sentence.

Aorist: commonly views the action as a whole event. It should not be treated as automatically punctiliar or automatically past in every context.

Passive: presents the subject as receiving or being affected by the action.

Indicative: presents the verbal idea as an assertion or statement in the clause.

Third person: the form speaks about someone or something rather than directly as I/we or you.

Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.

Singular: the form is third person singular, so it agrees with a single understood subject in the clause.

Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.

It stands with the clause about Mary before Joseph and the phrase ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχουσα.

The passive indicative presents the situation as a reported fact within the narrative, without requiring the verb form alone to explain every cause or agent.

It marks the key narrative development: Mary was found to be pregnant before they came together.

It does not by itself identify the human actor as the finder, nor does it by itself settle every nuance of responsibility or agency.

High: The aorist passive indicative reports the key narrative discovery before Joseph and Mary came together.

Main passive narrative assertion. reports Mary's discovered state while leaving the human finder or agent unspecified. Attached to the clause about Mary being found pregnant. Governed by the narrative setting of Matthew 1:18. The passive report matters for restraint: the verse states the situation without making the verb explain every cause.

What narrative fact does the verb report? It reports that Mary was found to be pregnant before they came together, without naming every human agent.

Direct: The aorist passive directly supports an English passive such as was found or was discovered.

The passive form reports the situation but does not identify every agent, cause, or motive.

Aorist means once-for-all by itself: Do not use the aorist alone to prove a once-for-all claim; Matthew's narrative supplies the event setting. passive voice names the finder: Passive voice does not by itself identify the actor, so the explanation should stay with what the verse states.

The witness reads εὑρέθη in Matthew 1:18 within the clause πρὶν ἢ συνελθεῖν αὐτούς, εὑρέθη ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχουσα.

The lemma is εὑρίσκω, a verb meaning to find, discover, or be found, depending on context.

Here the passive form fits the narrative report that Mary was found to be pregnant before the couple came together.

The verse advances the account of Jesus' birth by stating the unexpected pregnancy as an observed fact in the story.

Within Matthew 1, the wording supports the opening explanation of Jesus' birth without making the verb itself carry the whole theological interpretation.

For readers and teachers, the form helps communicate that the verse reports a discovered condition, not merely an abstract possibility.

Do not derive a separate theological claim from the voice or tense alone, and do not let the grammatical label override the immediate clause.