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λῃστεύω?

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration: lēisteuō

Principal Part: λῃστεύω λῃστεύσω

Structure: λῃστεύ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be a robber: to carry on a piratical, to practise piracy
  2. to spoil, plunder

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular λῃστεύω λῃστεύεις λῃστεύει
Dual λῃστεύετον λῃστεύετον
Plural λῃστεύομεν λῃστεύετε λῃστεύουσι(ν)
SubjunctiveSingular λῃστεύω λῃστεύῃς λῃστεύῃ
Dual λῃστεύητον λῃστεύητον
Plural λῃστεύωμεν λῃστεύητε λῃστεύωσι(ν)
OptativeSingular λῃστεύοιμι λῃστεύοις λῃστεύοι
Dual λῃστεύοιτον λῃστευοίτην
Plural λῃστεύοιμεν λῃστεύοιτε λῃστεύοιεν
ImperativeSingular λῄστευε λῃστευέτω
Dual λῃστεύετον λῃστευέτων
Plural λῃστεύετε λῃστευόντων, λῃστευέτωσαν
Infinitive λῃστεύειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
λῃστευων λῃστευοντος λῃστευουσα λῃστευουσης λῃστευον λῃστευοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular λῃστεύομαι λῃστεύει, λῃστεύῃ λῃστεύεται
Dual λῃστεύεσθον λῃστεύεσθον
Plural λῃστευόμεθα λῃστεύεσθε λῃστεύονται
SubjunctiveSingular λῃστεύωμαι λῃστεύῃ λῃστεύηται
Dual λῃστεύησθον λῃστεύησθον
Plural λῃστευώμεθα λῃστεύησθε λῃστεύωνται
OptativeSingular λῃστευοίμην λῃστεύοιο λῃστεύοιτο
Dual λῃστεύοισθον λῃστευοίσθην
Plural λῃστευοίμεθα λῃστεύοισθε λῃστεύοιντο
ImperativeSingular λῃστεύου λῃστευέσθω
Dual λῃστεύεσθον λῃστευέσθων
Plural λῃστεύεσθε λῃστευέσθων, λῃστευέσθωσαν
Infinitive λῃστεύεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
λῃστευομενος λῃστευομενου λῃστευομενη λῃστευομενης λῃστευομενον λῃστευομενου

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 λαμβάνει ὁ ἄνθρωπος τὴν ρομφαίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκπορεύεται ἐξοδεύειν καὶ λῃστεύειν καὶ κλέπτειν καὶ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν πλεῖν καὶ ποταμούς. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 4:23)
  • καὶ γὰρ μαχιμώτατοί εἰσιν ἐς τοῦτο ἔτι καὶ τοῖς Τραπεζουντίοις ἐχθρότατοι, καὶ χωρία ὀχυρὰ οἰκοῦσιν, ἔθνος ἀβασίλευτον καὶ πάλαι μὲν καὶ φόρου ὑποτελὲς Ῥωμαίοις, ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦ λῃστεύειν οὐκ ἀκριβοῦσιν τὴν ἀποφοράν. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 11 2:1)
  • ταῦτα δέ μοι οὐ πάνυ εὐδαίμονα δοκεῖ, ἀλλ ἐοίκασιν ὑμῶν οἱ μέν τινες εὐτυχεῖς τε καὶ εὔμοιροι εἶναι, οἱ δὲ ἔμπαλιν ἐῶ γὰρ λέγειν, ὅτι καὶ λῃστεύεσθε ὥσπερ ἡμεῖς καὶ περισυλᾶσθε ὑπὸ τῶν ἱεροσύλων καὶ ἐκ πλουσιωτάτων πενέστατοι ἐν ἀκαρεῖ γίγνεσθε: (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 8:7)
  • ἐν μὲν οὖν τῇ στρατηγίᾳ μετρίως ἐπαινούμενον ἑαυτὸν παρέσχε, μετὰ δὲ τὴν στρατηγίαν κλήρῳ λαβὼν τὴν ἐκτὸς Ἰβηρίαν λέγεται καθᾶραι λῃστηρίων τὴν ἐπαρχίαν ἀνήμερον οὖσαν ἔτι τοῖς ἐθισμοῖς καὶ θηριώδη, καὶ τὸ λῃστεύειν οὔπω τότε τῶν Ἰβήρων οὐχὶ κάλλιστον ἡγουμένων, ἐν δὲ τῇ πολιτείᾳ γενόμενος οὐκ εἶχεν οὔτε πλοῦτον οὔτε λόγον, οἷς ἦγον οἱ τότε μάλιστα τιμώμενοι τὸν δῆμον. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 6 1:1)
  • τοσαύτην μέν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, διὰ ταῦτα, ὅτι οὐκ ἔνι νῦν ἡμῖν πορίσασθαι δύναμιν τὴν ἐκείνῳ παραταξομένην, ἀλλὰ λῃστεύειν ἀνάγκη καὶ τούτῳ τῷ τρόπῳ τοῦ πολέμου χρῆσθαι τὴν πρώτην: (Demosthenes, Speeches, 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. to spoil

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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