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προσεύχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσεύχομαι προσεύξομαι

Structure: προς (Prefix) + εύ̓χ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to pray, vow
  2. (with accusative)
  3. (absolute) to offer prayers, worship

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 ἐμοὶ μηδαμῶσ τοῦ ἁμαρτεῖν τῷ Κυρίῳ ἀνιέναι τοῦ προσεύχεσθαι περὶ ὑμῶν, καὶ δουλεύσω τῷ Κυρίῳ καὶ δείξω ὑμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἀγαθὴν καὶ τὴν εὐθεῖαν. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 12:23)
  • εἰ γὰρ μὴ τοὺσ προπεπτωκότασ ἀναστῆναι προσεδόκα, περισσὸν ἂν ἦν καὶ ληρῶδεσ ὑπὲρ νεκρῶν προσεύχεσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:44)
  • "βέλτιστε Ἐμπεδόκλεισ, κἀπειδὰν τάχιστα κατάπτωμαι πάλιν ἐσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα, μεμνήσομαι σπένδειν τέ σοι ἐπὶ τῆσ καπνοδόκησ κἀν ταῖσ νουμηνίαισ πρὸσ τὴν σελήνην τρὶσ ἐγχανὼν προσεύχεσθαι. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 13:10)
  • τοσαῦτα εἶπεν, καὶ ἀνασπάσασ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ μαλάχησ ῥίζαν ὤρεξέν μοι, ταύτῃ κελεύσασ ἐν τοῖσ μεγίστοισ κινδύνοισ προσεύχεσθαι· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 28:1)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ τοῖσ θεοῖσ ἀξιοῦμεν ὀρθῷ τῷ στόματι καὶ δικαίῳ προσεύχεσθαι, καὶ μὴ τὴν ἐπὶ τῶν σπλάγχνων μὲν γλῶτταν εἰ καθαρὰ καὶ ὀρθὴ σκοπεῖν, τὴν δ’ ἑαυτῶν διαστρέφοντασ καὶ μολύνοντασ ἀτόποισ ὀνόμασι καὶ ῥήμασι βαρβαρικοῖσ καταισχύνειν καὶ παρανομεῖν εἰσ τὸ θεῖον καὶ πάτριον ἀξίωμα τῆσ εὐσεβείασ. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 3 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. to pray

  2. to offer prayers

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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