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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

  • ἐγκειμένου δὲ τοῦ σοφιστοῦ καὶ ἐρωτῶντοσ, τίνα δὲ καὶ ἐφόδια ἔχων, ὦ Δημῶναξ,. (Lucian, (no name) 12:4)
  • ὁ δὲ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἡσυχίαν εἶχεν, εἶτα τοῦ πλήθουσ βιαιότερον ἐγκειμένου προσδέξασθαι μὲν ἔφησε τὴν στρατηγίαν, μὴ μέντοι γε μετ’ ἄλλων ἄρξειν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 9 3:2)
  • ἦν δὲ τὸ ὄναρ ὡσ ὀστοῦ γε ἐγκειμένου καὶ δέον ἐκβαλεῖν, ἔννοια δὲ καὶ αἵματοσ ἀφαιρέσεωσ ἀπὸ τῶν σφυρῶν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:9)
  • ὁ δὲ Κάισ ἀπορούμενοσ καὶ οὐκ ἔχων ὅ τι λέγοι πρὸσ τὸν θεὸν ἀμηχανεῖν μὲν καὶ αὐτὸσ ἔφασκε τὸ πρῶτον ἐπὶ τἀδελφῷ μὴ βλεπομένῳ, παροξυνθεὶσ δὲ τοῦ θεοῦ λιπαρῶσ ἐγκειμένου καὶ πολυπραγμονοῦντοσ οὐκ εἶναι παιδαγωγὸσ καὶ φύλαξ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ πραττομένων ἔλεγεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 68:1)
  • Μαδιηνῖται δὲ Βαλάκου σφόδρα ἐγκειμένου καὶ δέησιν λιπαρὰν προσφέροντοσ πάλιν πέμπουσι πρὸσ τὸν Βάλαμον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 137:1)

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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