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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

  • καὶ ἔκλαιον καὶ ἐνήστευον καὶ ηὔχοντο ἐναντίον Κυρίου (Septuagint, Liber Baruch 1:5)
  • ἱκανὴ γὰρ ἔσται καὶ ἡ γενομένη τύχη τοῦτο πορίζειν ‐ ἀλλ’ ἰωμένουσ καὶ πραύ̈νοντασ ἀναμιμνῄσκειν αὐτοὺσ ὅτι ὧν ηὔχοντο τὰ μέγιστα αὐτοῖσ οἱ θεοὶ ἐπήκοοι γεγόνασιν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 89:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀθανάτουσ σφίσι παῖδασ ηὔχοντο γενέσθαι ἀλλ’ ἀγαθοὺσ καὶ εὐκλεεῖσ, ὧν ἔτυχον, μεγίστων ἀγαθῶν ὄντων· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 89:2)
  • οἱ δὲ καὶ τῇ σκηνῇ τῇ βασιλικῇ πελάζοντεσ ηὔχοντο Ἀλεξάνδρῳ πολλὰ καὶ ἀγαθά, ὅτι πρὸσ σφῶν μόνων νικηθῆναι ἠνέσχετο. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 5, chapter 29 1:2)
  • ἤδη δὲ τῆσ τριακοντόρου καταλαμβανομένησ οἱ βάρβαροι μὲν ἐπηλάλαξαν, οἱ δ’ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀδυνατοῦντεσ βοηθεῖν τοῖσ θεοῖσ ηὔχοντο περὶ τῆσ σωτηρίασ τῶν καταπλεόντων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 16 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. to pray

  2. I pray for

  3. to vow or promise to do

  4. to profess loudly

Related

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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