Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • καὶ ἔσται ἐὰν ἀκούσῃ τὰ ρήματα τῆσ ἀρᾶσ ταύτησ καὶ ἐπιφημίσηται ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ λέγων. ὅσιά μοι γένοιτο, ὅτι ἐνῇ ἀποπλανήσει τῆσ καρδίασ μου πορεύσομαι, ἵνα μὴ συναπολέσῃ ὁ ἁμαρτωλὸσ τὸν ἀναμάρτητον. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 29:18)
  • Πρῶτον ἔνη τετράσ τε καὶ ἑβδόμη ἱερὸν ἦμαρ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 94:2)
  • οὐ δῆτ’, ἤν γ’ ἐκείναισ νοῦσ ἐνῇ, πρίν γ’ ἂν ἀπενέγκῃσ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 4:12)
  • πέμπτη, τετράσ, τρίτη, μετὰ ταύτην δευτέρα, εἶθ’ ἣν ἐγὼ μάλιστα πασῶν ἡμερῶν δέδοικα καὶ πέφρικα καὶ βδελύττομαι, εὐθὺσ μετὰ ταύτην ἔσθ’ ἕνη τε καὶ νέα. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene1)
  • ἕνη γάρ ἐστι καὶ νέα τισ ἡμέρα; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics3)

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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