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ἐπισπάω

α-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισπάω ἐπισπάσω

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + σπά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

to draw or drag after, by, having dragged, to bring on, cause
to pull to, being drawn tight
to attract, gain, win
to draw on, allure, persuade, induce
returning with a rush
to become uncircumcised

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
Indicative	Singular	ἐπίσπω	ἐπίσπᾳς	ἐπίσπᾳ
	Dual		ἐπίσπᾱτον	ἐπίσπᾱτον
	Plural	ἐπίσπωμεν	ἐπίσπᾱτε	ἐπίσπωσιν*
Subjunctive	Singular	ἐπίσπω	ἐπίσπῃς	ἐπίσπῃ
	Dual		ἐπίσπητον	ἐπίσπητον
	Plural	ἐπίσπωμεν	ἐπίσπητε	ἐπίσπωσιν*
Optative	Singular	ἐπίσπῳμι	ἐπίσπῳς	ἐπίσπῳ
	Dual		ἐπίσπῳτον	ἐπισπῷτην
	Plural	ἐπίσπῳμεν	ἐπίσπῳτε	ἐπίσπῳεν
Imperative	Singular		ἐπίσπᾱ	ἐπισπᾶτω
	Dual		ἐπίσπᾱτον	ἐπισπᾶτων
	Plural		ἐπίσπᾱτε	ἐπισπῶντων, ἐπισπᾶτωσαν
Infinitive		ἐπίσπᾱν
Participle		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Participle		ἐπισπων ἐπισπωντος	ἐπισπωσα ἐπισπωσης	ἐπισπων ἐπισπωντος
Middle/Passive
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
Indicative	Singular	ἐπίσπωμαι	ἐπίσπᾳ	ἐπίσπᾱται
	Dual		ἐπίσπᾱσθον	ἐπίσπᾱσθον
	Plural	ἐπισπῶμεθα	ἐπίσπᾱσθε	ἐπίσπωνται
Subjunctive	Singular	ἐπίσπωμαι	ἐπίσπῃ	ἐπίσπηται
	Dual		ἐπίσπησθον	ἐπίσπησθον
	Plural	ἐπισπώμεθα	ἐπίσπησθε	ἐπίσπωνται
Optative	Singular	ἐπισπῷμην	ἐπίσπῳο	ἐπίσπῳτο
	Dual		ἐπίσπῳσθον	ἐπισπῷσθην
	Plural	ἐπισπῷμεθα	ἐπίσπῳσθε	ἐπίσπῳντο
Imperative	Singular		ἐπίσπω	ἐπισπᾶσθω
	Dual		ἐπίσπᾱσθον	ἐπισπᾶσθων
	Plural		ἐπίσπᾱσθε	ἐπισπᾶσθων, ἐπισπᾶσθωσαν
Infinitive		ἐπίσπᾱσθαι
Participle		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Participle		ἐπισπωμενος ἐπισπωμενου	ἐπισπωμενη ἐπισπωμενης	ἐπισπωμενον ἐπισπωμενου

Imperfect tense

Active
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
Indicative	Singular	ἐπε͂σπων	ἐπε͂σπᾱς	ἐπε͂σπᾱν*
	Dual		ἐπέσπᾱτον	ἐπεσπᾶτην
	Plural	ἐπέσπωμεν	ἐπέσπᾱτε	ἐπε͂σπων
Middle/Passive
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
Indicative	Singular	ἐπεσπῶμην	ἐπέσπω	ἐπέσπᾱτο
	Dual		ἐπέσπᾱσθον	ἐπεσπᾶσθην
	Plural	ἐπεσπῶμεθα	ἐπέσπᾱσθε	ἐπέσπωντο

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

Ἔρωτεσ δέ τινεσ μειδιῶντεσ ὁ μὲν κατόπιν ἐφεστὼσ ἀπάγει τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τὴν καλύπτραν καὶ δείκνυσι τῷ νυμφίῳ τὴν Ῥωξάνην, ὁ δέ τισ μάλα δουλικῶσ ἀφαιρεῖ τὸ σανδάλιον ἐκ τοῦ ποδόσ, ὡσ κατακλίνοιτο ἤδη, ἄλλοσ τῆσ χλανίδοσ τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐπειλημμένοσ, Ἔρωσ καὶ οὗτοσ, ἕλκει αὐτὸν πρὸσ τὴν Ῥωξάνην πάνυ βιαιωσ ἐπισπώμενοσ, ὁ βασιλεὺσ δὲ αὐτὸσ μὲν στέφανόν τινα ὀρέγει τῇ παιδί, πάροχοσ δὲ καὶ νυμφαγωγὸσ Ἡφαιστίων συμπάρεστι δᾷδα καιομένην ἔχων, μειρακίῳ πάνυ ὡραίῳ ἐπερειδόμενοσ, Ὑμέναιοσ οἶμαί ἐστιν· (Lucian, Herodotus 9:3)
τοῦτο δὲ πάντωσ προσέθηκε τὸ Καρχηδόνα τεκμήριον οἰόμενοσ αὑτῷ γενέσθαι τῆσ ἀληθείασ ἐναργέστατον, οὐ συνῆκε δὲ καθ’ ἑαυτοῦ τὸν ἔλεγχον ἐπισπώμενοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 19:2)
ἀπαντῶντι τῷ Δεινοκράτει συμπεσόντεσ ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἐτρέψαντο, τῶν δὲ πεντακοσίων, οἳ τήν χώραν τῶν Μεσσηνίων παρεφύλαττον, ἐξαίφνησ ἐπιφερομένων καὶ τῶν πρότερον ἡττημένων, ὡσ τούτουσ κατεῖδον, αὖθισ ἀνὰ τοὺσ λόφουσ ἀθροιζομένων, δείσασ ὁ Φιλοποίμην κυκλωθῆναι καὶ τῶν ἱππέων φειδόμενοσ ἀνεχώρει διὰ τόπων χαλεπῶν, αὐτὸσ οὐραγῶν καὶ πολλάκισ ἀντεξελαύνων τοῖσ πολεμίοισ καὶ ὅλωσ ἐπισπώμενοσ ἐφ’ ἑαυτόν, οὐ τολμώντων ἀντεμβαλεῖν ἐκείνων, ἀλλὰ κραυγαῖσ καὶ περιδρομαῖσ χρωμένων ἄποθεν. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 18 5:1)
ὀλίγασ δέ τινασ ἐξ αὐτῶν εἰσ τὸ ἄντρον, ἐν ᾧ πλησίον ὄντι ἐτύγχανε τὴν δίαιταν ποιούμενοσ, ἀποκρύπτεται ἔμπαλιν τῆσ κατὰ φύσιν τοῖσ ζῴοισ πορείασ ἐπισπώμενοσ ἑκάστην κατ’ οὐράν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 39 3:1)
ἐβόα τε μέγιστον ἕπεσθαί οἱ τοὺσ ἐθέλοντασ σῴζεσθαι τὴν πατρίδα καὶ τὸ κράσπεδον τοῦ ἱματίου ἐσ τὴν κεφαλὴν περιεσύρατο, εἴτε τῷ παρασήμῳ τοῦ σχήματοσ πλέονάσ οἱ συντρέχειν ἐπισπώμενοσ, εἴτε πολέμου τι σύμβολον τοῖσ ὁρῶσιν ὡσ κόρυθα ποιούμενοσ, εἴτε θεοὺσ ἐγκαλυπτόμενοσ ὧν ἔμελλε δράσειν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 2 3:5)

Synonyms

to draw or drag after
- ἐξέλκω (to draw or drag out)
to pull to
- σπάω (to draw tight, pull)
to attract
- αἱρέω (to win, gain)
- ἐπικτάομαι (to gain or win besides)
- θιγγάνω (to reach, gain, win)
- ἀναλαμβάνω (to gain quite over, win over)
to draw on
- προάγω (to lead on, induce, persuade)
returning with a rush
- ἐφορμαίνω (to rush on)
- εἰσφέρω (to rush in)
- προσορμάω (to rush on)
- προσρέω (to rush up to)
- ἀναλύω (to return)
- ἐξαπονέομαι (to return out of)

Derived

ἀνασπάω (to draw up, pull up, he drew his)
ἀποσπάω (to tear or drag away from, to tear, from)
διασπάω (to tear asunder, part forcibly, to tear down)
ἐκσπάω (to draw out, having drawn, their)
ἐξανασπάω (to tear away from, to tear up from)
κατασπάω (to draw or pull down, to haul, down to the sea)
μετασπάω (to draw over from one side to another)
παρασπάω (to draw forcibly aside, wrest aside, to detach)
περισπάω (I draw off from around, strip off, I strip myself of)
σπάω (to draw, to be drawn, having their)
συνανασπάω (to draw up together)
συνεπισπάω (to draw on together, to draw on along with one)
συσπάω (to draw together, draw up, contract)
ὑποσπάω (to draw away from under, to withdraw secretly, withdrew)

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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ἐπισπάω

Sense

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Examples

Synonyms

to draw or drag after

to pull to

to attract

to draw on

returning with a rush

Derived

Similar forms

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ἐπισπάω

Sense

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Examples

Synonyms

to draw or drag after

to pull to

to attract

to draw on

returning with a rush

Derived

Similar forms

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