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εἶπον

Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἶπον εἶπον

Structure:

Etym.: pres. in use is fh/mi, a)goreu/w, fut. e)re/w, e)rw=, perf. ei)/rhka

Sense

  1. I said, spoke

Conjugation

Aorist 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

  • ἡμεῖσ δέ εἴπομεν. οὐ δυνησόμεθα καταβῆναι. ἀλλ̓ εἰ μὲν ὁ ἀδελφὸσ ἡμῶν ὁ νεώτεροσ καταβαίνει μεθ̓ ἡμῶν, καταβησόμεθα. οὐ γὰρ δυνησόμεθα ἰδεῖν τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ἡμῶν τοῦ νεωτέρου μὴ ὄντοσ μεθ̓ ἡμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 44:26)
  • καὶ εἴπομεν. ἐὰν γένηταί ποτε καὶ λαλήσωσι πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ καὶ ταῖσ γενεαῖσ ἡμῶν αὔριον, καὶ ἐροῦσιν. ἴδετε ὁμοίωμα τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου Κυρίου, ὃ ἐποίησαν οἱ πατέρεσ ἡμῶν οὐχ ἕνεκεν καρπωμάτων οὐδὲ ἕνεκεν θυσιῶν, ἀλλὰ μαρτύριόν ἐστιν ἀνὰ μέσον ὑμῶν καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον ἡμῶν καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν υἱῶν ἡμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 22:28)
  • ὡσ ἐκλέλησμαί γ’ ἃ πάροσ εἴπομεν, πάτερ. (Euripides, episode 3:23)
  • Λακωνικὰσ γὰρ ἔχετε καὶ βακτηρίασ καὶ θαἰμάτια τἀνδρεῖα, καθάπερ εἴπομεν. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 2:23)
  • οὐ γὰρ τοσαύτασ οὔτ’ ἀπειλὰσ οὔτε πῦρ ἥξουσ’ ἔχοντεσ ὥστ’ ἀνοῖξαι τὰσ πύλασ ταύτασ, ἐὰν μὴ ’φ’ οἷσιν ἡμεῖσ εἴπομεν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 6:28)

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