Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • καὶ οὐκ ἐχρόνισεν ὁ νεανίσκοσ τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ ρῆμα τοῦτο. ἐνέκειτο γὰρ τῇ θυγατρὶ Ἰακώβ. αὐτὸσ δὲ ἦν ἐνδοξότατοσ πάντων τῶν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 34:19)
  • οἱ γὰρ ἄρχοντεσ τῶν σατραπῶν καὶ οἱ τύραννοι καὶ οἱ βασιλικοὶ γραμματεῖσ ἐτίμων τοὺσ Ἰουδαίουσ. ὁ γὰρ φόβοσ Μαρδοχαίου ἐνέκειτο αὐτοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 9:3)
  • οἳ δή τοι τὰ μὲν ἄλλα θεοῖσ ἐναλίγκιοι ἦσαν, μοῦνοσ δ’ ὀφθαλμὸσ μέσσῳ ἐνέκειτο μετώπῳ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 15:2)
  • Κύκλωπεσ δ’ ὄνομ’ ἦσαν ἐπώνυμον, οὕνεκ’ ἄρα σφέων κυκλοτερὴσ ὀφθαλμὸσ ἑείσ ἐνέκειτο μετώπῳ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 15:3)
  • Ἀννίβασ φοβερὸσ μὲν καὶ δεινὸσ ἐνέκειτο Ῥωμαίοισ, ὥσπερ ἀμέλει Λακεδαιμόνιοι τότε Θηβαίοισ, ἐνδοῦναι δὲ τούτουσ μὲν Πελοπίδᾳ καὶ περὶ Τεγύρασ καὶ περὶ Λεῦκτρα βέβαιόν ἐστιν, Ἀννίβαν δὲ Μάρκελλοσ, ὡσ μὲν οἱ περὶ Πολύβιον λέγουσιν, οὐδὲ ἅπαξ ἐνίκησεν, ἀλλ’ ἀήττητοσ ὁ ἁνὴρ δοκεῖ διαγενέσθαι μέχρι Σκηπίωνοσ· (Plutarch, Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus, chapter 1 4:1)

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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