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ἔγκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκειμαι ἔγκείσομαι

Structure: ἐγ (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: used as Pass. of e)nti/qhmi

Sense

  1. to lie in, be wrapped in, clothes
  2. to be involved in
  3. to press upon, pressing upon, was, urgent, he insists
  4. to be devoted to

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • τροφὰσ δὲ ἀφθόνουσ ἔχοντεσ, εὐπορήσαντοσ καὶ προπαρασκευάσαντοσ τοῦ προπάτοροσ θεοῦ πρώτην μὲν τοῖσ πρώτοισ καὶ αὐτόχθοσι τὴν γεώδη, μαλακῆσ ἔτι καὶ πίονοσ τῆσ ἰλύοσ τότε οὔσησ, ὥσπερ ἀπὸ μητρὸσ τῆσ γῆσ λιχμωμένοισ καὶ, καθάπερ τὰ φυτὰ νῦν, ἕλκουσι τὴν ἐξ αὐτῆσ ἰκμάδα, δευτέραν δὲ τοῖσ ἤδη προϊοῦσι καρπῶν τε αὐτομάτων καὶ πόασ οὐ σκληρᾶσ ἅμα δρόσῳ γλυκείᾳ καὶ νάμασι νυμφῶν ποτίμοισ, καὶ δὴ καὶ τοῦ περιέχοντοσ ἠρτημένοι καὶ τρεφόμενοι τῇ διηνεκεῖ τοῦ πνεύματοσ ἐπιρροῇ, ἀέρα ὑγρὸν ἕλκοντεσ, ὥσπερ νήπιοι παῖδεσ, οὔποτε ἐπιλείποντοσ γάλακτοσ ἀεί σφισι θηλῆσ ἐγκειμένησ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 38:1)
  • " εἶτα, ἐπειδὴ παρήβησεν ἐγκειμένησ, εἰπεῖν, "οὐκέτι καιρόσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. QALHS 5:5)
  • ἐγκειμένησ δ’ αὐτῆσ καὶ εἰσ δάκρυα προπιπτούσησ καὶ τεκμήριον τιθεμένησ τῆσ πρὸσ αὐτὴν δυσνοίασ τὸ μὴ λέγειν αὐτῇ, μηνύει τὰ περὶ τὴν ἀναίρεσιν αὐτῇ τοῦ λέοντοσ καὶ ὡσ τὰ τρία βαστάσασ ἐξ αὐτοῦ κηρία μέλιτοσ γεγονότα κομίσειεν αὐτῇ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 379:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be involved in

  2. to press upon

  3. to be devoted to

Derived

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

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