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ἔνειμι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνειμι ἔνέσομαι

Structure: ἐν (Prefix) + έ̓ς (Stem) + τον (Ending)

Etym.: ei)mi/ sum

Sense

  1. to be in, to be among
  2. to be there, be in abundance, as there was, there, that were in the place
  3. to be possible
  4. it is in one's power, one may or can
  5. since it was in, was possible
  6. all things possible

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

  • ἄβυσσοσ εἶπεν. οὐκ ἔνεστιν ἐν ἐμοί. καὶ ἡ θάλασσα εἶπεν. οὐκ ἔστι μετ̓ ἐμοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 28:14)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ τοῦτο ἔνεστιν εἰπεῖν, ὅτι δι’ ἀνάγκην ἦλθεν ἐπὶ ταύτην τὴν γραφήν, ἐπιστάμενοσ μὲν ὡσ ἐκεῖνα καλλίω, βουλόμενοσ δὲ μὴ ταὐτὰ ἑτέροισ γράφειν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 6:2)
  • τοιαύτασ πολλὰσ ἰδεῖν ἔνεστιν. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 11:11)
  • ὁ δὲ ὀρχηστὴσ τὰ πάντα ἔχει συλλαβών, καὶ ἔνεστιν ποικίλην καὶ παμμιγῆ τὴν παρασκευὴν αὐτοῦ ἰδεῖν, αὐλόν, σύριγγα, ποδῶν κτύπον, κυμβάλου ψόφον, ὑποκριτοῦ εὐφωνίαν, ᾀδόντων ὁμοφωνίαν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 68:1)
  • οὐκοῦν ἄκουσον, ὦ γενναῖε, μὴ εἰ κάματοσ ἔνεστιν ἐν τῷ πράγματι μόνον ἐξετάζων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ αἰσχρὸν καὶ ταπεινὸν καὶ συνόλωσ δουλοπρεπὲσ οὐκ ἐν παρέργῳ τῆσ ἀκροάσεωσ τιθέμενοσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 22:5)

Synonyms

  1. to be in

  2. to be possible

  3. it is in one's power

  4. since it was in

  5. all things possible

Derived

Similar forms

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

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