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βασανίζω?

Non-contract Verb; Transliteration: basanizō

Principal Part: βασανίζω

Structure: βασανίζ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to rub, upon the touch-stone, to try the genuineness of, to put to the test, make proof of
  2. to examine closely, cross-question
  3. to question by applying torture, to torture, to be put to the torture, to be tormented

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular βασανίζω βασανίζεις βασανίζει
Dual βασανίζετον βασανίζετον
Plural βασανίζομεν βασανίζετε βασανίζουσι(ν)
SubjunctiveSingular βασανίζω βασανίζῃς βασανίζῃ
Dual βασανίζητον βασανίζητον
Plural βασανίζωμεν βασανίζητε βασανίζωσι(ν)
OptativeSingular βασανίζοιμι βασανίζοις βασανίζοι
Dual βασανίζοιτον βασανιζοίτην
Plural βασανίζοιμεν βασανίζοιτε βασανίζοιεν
ImperativeSingular βασάνιζε βασανιζέτω
Dual βασανίζετον βασανιζέτων
Plural βασανίζετε βασανιζόντων, βασανιζέτωσαν
Infinitive βασανίζειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
βασανιζων βασανιζοντος βασανιζουσα βασανιζουσης βασανιζον βασανιζοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular βασανίζομαι βασανίζει, βασανίζῃ βασανίζεται
Dual βασανίζεσθον βασανίζεσθον
Plural βασανιζόμεθα βασανίζεσθε βασανίζονται
SubjunctiveSingular βασανίζωμαι βασανίζῃ βασανίζηται
Dual βασανίζησθον βασανίζησθον
Plural βασανιζώμεθα βασανίζησθε βασανίζωνται
OptativeSingular βασανιζοίμην βασανίζοιο βασανίζοιτο
Dual βασανίζοισθον βασανιζοίσθην
Plural βασανιζοίμεθα βασανίζοισθε βασανίζοιντο
ImperativeSingular βασανίζου βασανιζέσθω
Dual βασανίζεσθον βασανιζέσθων
Plural βασανίζεσθε βασανιζέσθων, βασανιζέσθωσαν
Infinitive βασανίζεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
βασανιζομενος βασανιζομενου βασανιζομενη βασανιζομενης βασανιζομενον βασανιζομενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐβασάνιζον ἐβασάνιζες ἐβασάνιζε(ν)
Dual ἐβασανίζετον ἐβασανιζέτην
Plural ἐβασανίζομεν ἐβασανίζετε ἐβασάνιζον
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐβασανιζόμην ἐβασανίζου ἐβασανίζετο
Dual ἐβασανίζεσθον ἐβασανιζέσθην
Plural ἐβασανιζόμεθα ἐβασανίζεσθε ἐβασανίζοντο

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἱδρῶν γέ τοι τὸ πρόσωπον καὶ ἐπασθμαίνων σφοδρῶς καὶ ὑπ αὐτῶν τῶν βασανιζόντων ἐθαυμάζετο ἐπὶ τῇ εὐψυχίᾳ. - (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 6:11)
  • ἐπειδὴ γὰρ κατά τὴν πρώτην πεῖραν ἐνικήθη περιφανῶς ὁ τύραννος μὴ δυνηθεὶς ἀναγκάσαι γέροντα μιαροφαγῆσαι, τότε δὴ σφόδρα περιπαθῶς ἐκέλευσεν ἄλλους ἐκ τῆς ἡλικίας τῶν Ἑβραίων ἀγαγεῖν, καὶ εἰ μὲν μιαροφαγήσαιεν, ἀπολύειν φαγόντας, εἰ δὲ ἀντιλέγοιεν, πικρότερον βασανίζειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 8:2)
  • ὥστε εἰ σοὶ δοκεῖ βασανίζειν μὴ μιαροφαγοῦντα, βασάνιζε. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 11:16)
  • ἃ δὲ θαυμάζειν ὑμῶν φησιν πολλοὺς αὐτῷ προσιόντας καὶ βασανίζειν ὡς οὐχὶ πάλαι χορὸν αἰτοίη καθ ἑαυτόν, ἡμᾶς ὑμῖν ἐκέλευε φράσαι περὶ τούτου. (Aristotle, Parabasis, parabasis3)

Synonyms

  1. to examine closely

  2. to question by applying torture

Related

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Derived

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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