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εὔχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔχομαι εὔξομαι ηὐξάμην ηὖγμαι

Structure: εύ̓χ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: v. sub fin.

Sense

  1. to pray, offer prayers
  2. I pray for, wish for, long for
  3. to vow or promise to do
  4. to profess loudly, to boast, vaunt

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist 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

  • νῦν δὲ λάβετε ἑπτὰ μόσχουσ καὶ ἑπτὰ κριοὺσ καὶ πορεύθητε πρὸσ τὸν θεράποντά μου Ἰώβ, καὶ ποιήσει κάρπωσιν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν. Ἰὼβ δὲ ὁ θεράπων μου εὔξεται περὶ ὑμῶν, ὅτι εἰ μὴ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ λήψομαι. εἰ μὴ γὰρ δἰ αὐτόν, ἀπώλεσα ἂν ὑμᾶσ. οὐ γὰρ ἐλαλήσατε ἀληθὲσ κατὰ τοῦ θεράποντόσ μου Ἰώβ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 42:8)
  • τίσ ἔτι ποτ’ ἐν τοῖσδ’ ἀνὴρ θεῶν βέλη εὔξεται ψυχᾶσ ἀμύνειν; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 22)
  • φέρε γάρ, ἐὰν νυνὶ Ἀνδοκίδησ ἀθῷοσ ἀπαλλαγῇ <δι’> ὑμᾶσ ἐκ τοῦδε τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ καὶ ἔλθῃ κληρωσόμενοσ τῶν ἐννέα ἀρχόντων καὶ λάχῃ βασιλεύσ, ἄλλο τι ἢ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν καὶ θυσίασ θύσει καὶ εὐχὰσ εὔξεται κατὰ τὰ πάτρια, τὰ μὲν ἐν τῷ ἐνθάδε Ἐλευσινίω, τὰ δὲ ἐν τῷ Ἐλευσῖνι ἱερῷ, καὶ τῆσ ἑορτῆσ ἐπιμελήσεται μυστηρίοισ, ὅπωσ ἂν μηδεὶσ ἀδικῇ μηδὲ ἀσεβῇ τὰ ἱερά; (Lysias, Speeches, 7:1)
  • Εὔξεταί τε, φασίν, ὁ σοφόσ, αἰτούμενοσ τὰ ἀγαθὰ παρὰ τῶν θεῶν, καθά φησι Ποσειδώνιοσ ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ Περὶ καθηκόντων καὶ Ἑκάτων ἐν τρίτῳ Περὶ παραδόξων. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 124:1)

Synonyms

  1. to pray

  2. I pray for

  3. to vow or promise to do

  4. to profess loudly

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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