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 πᾶσαι αἱ γυναῖκεσ, αἷσ ἔδοξε τῇ διανοίᾳ αὐτῶν ἐν σοφίᾳ, ἔνησαν τὰσ τρίχασ τὰσ αἰγείασ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 35:26)
  • καὶ τριακόσια ὅπλα χρυσᾶ ἐλατὰ —καὶ τρεῖσ μναῖ ἐνῆσαν χρυσοῦ εἰσ τὸ ὅπλον τὸ ἓν— καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὰ ὁ βασιλεὺσ εἰσ οἶκον δρυμοῦ τοῦ Λιβάνου. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 10:15)
  • ἐνθένθε ἐσ Βάρνα κώμην σταδίουσ τετρακοσίουσ, ἵνα φοίνικέσ τε πολλοὶ ἐνῆσαν καὶ κῆποσ, καὶ ἐν τῷ κήπῳ μύρσιναι ἐπεφύκεσαν καὶ ἄλλα ἄνθεα, ἀπ̓ ὅτων στεφανώματα τοῖσι κωμήτῃσιν ἐπλέκετο· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 27 2:2)
  • ἐν αἷσ καὶ μῦθοί τινεσ ἐνῆσαν ἀπὸ τοῦ πολλοῦ πεπιστευμένοι χρόνου καὶ θεατρικαί τινεσ περιπέτειαι πολὺ τὸ ἠλίθιον ἔχειν τοῖσ νῦν δοκοῦσαι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 5 2:1)
  • Ξενοφῶν Ἀναβάσεωσ πρώτῳ ἐνῆσαν δὲ καὶ ὠτίδεσ καὶ δορκάδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 55 1:5)

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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