Checking a value against every value in a table

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Back with another LUA question:

I am interested if LUA inherently supports checking a value against ANY value in a table. Let me explain.

Let us say we have a table with some values:

local myTable = {
    "Value1",
    "Value2",
    "Value3"
}

Is there any way I can check some variable against the whole table as in:

if some variable == ANY value in myTable then code here end

I am curious because using a

for k, v in pairs(myTable)

loop seems a bit bulky just to decide if the variable matches any value in said table.

Thank you for your time and assistance!