Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐκδέχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκδέχομαι ἐκδέξομαι

Structure: ἐκ (Prefix) + δέχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to take or receive from
  2. to take up, succeeded
  3. to take up the argument
  4. to wait for, expect
  5. to await
  6. to come next

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

  • Ὁ φοβούμενοσ Κύριον ἐκδέξεται παιδείαν, καὶ οἱ ὀρθρίζοντεσ εὑρήσουσιν εὐδοκίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 32:14)
  • ὅτι ἀνεμόφθορα ἔσπειραν, καὶ ἡ καταστροφὴ αὐτῶν ἐκδέξεται αὐτά. δράγμα οὐκ ἔχον ἰσχὺν τοῦ ποιῆσαι ἄλευρον. ἐὰν δὲ καὶ ποιήσῃ, ἀλλότριοι καταφάγονται αὐτό. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 8:7)
  • διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ πορεύσονται ἐκ ταλαιπωρίασ Αἰγύπτου, καὶ ἐκδέξεται αὐτοὺσ Μέμφισ, καὶ θάψει αὐτοὺσ Μαχμάσ. τὸ ἀργύριον αὐτῶν ὄλεθροσ κληρονομήσει αὐτό, ἄκανθαι ἐν τοῖσ σκηνώμασιν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 9:6)
  • διάπυροσ γὰρ οὖσ1’ ἔτι ἕλξει δι’ αὑτῆσ νοτίδα καὶ ζυμουμένη ὥσπερ κίσηρισ λήψεται διεξόδουσ σομφάσ, δι’ ὧν τὴν ὑγρασίαν ἐκδέξεται τὰ κρεᾴδι’ ἔσται τ’ οὐκ ἀπεξηραμμένα, ἔγχυλα δ’ ἀτρεμεὶ καὶ δροσώδη τὴν σχέσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 30 2:3)
  • Εἰ δ’ ἄρα τισ καὶ τῶνδε πάντων καταφρονεῖ, ὅπωσ δ’ αὐτὸσ ἐκδέξεται τὴν Σκιπίωνοσ ἀρχήν, τὸ ἑαυτοῦ μόνον σκοπεῖ, καὶ πιστεύει καὶ τὰ τῆσ τύχησ αὐτῷ ἐσ τέλοσ ἀπαντήσειν, τί καὶ χρησόμεθα τῇ πόλει λαβόντεσ αὐτήν, ἢν καὶ λάβωμεν; (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. to take or receive from

  2. to take up the argument

  3. to wait for

  4. to await

  5. to come next

Derived

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

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