Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πρόσκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσκειμαι πρόσκείσομαι

Structure: προς (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: on the ionic forms v. kei=mai

Sense

  1. to be placed or laid by or upon, to lie by or upon, were upon, to keep close to, lying near, the inside
  2. to lie beside, cling to, to be given to wife
  3. to be involved in or bound up with
  4. to be attached or devoted to, to put faith in, to be addicted to
  5. to press upon, be urgent with, with zeal
  6. to press close or hard, pursue closely, to follow close, the enemy
  7. to fall to, belong to, to be laid upon
  8. to be added or attached to

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

  • πλὴν Χάλεβ υἱὸσ Ἰεφοννή, οὗτοσ ὄψεται αὐτήν, καὶ τούτῳ δώσω τὴν γῆν, ἐφ̓ ἣν ἐπέβη, καὶ τοῖσ υἱοῖσ αὐτοῦ διὰ τὸ προσκεῖσθαι αὐτὸν τὰ πρὸσ Κύριον. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 1:36)
  • ἀλλὰ φυλάξασθε σφόδρα ποιεῖν τὰσ ἐντολὰσ καὶ τὸν νόμον, ὃν ἐνετείλατο ἡμῖν ποιεῖν Μωυσῆσ ὁ παῖσ Κυρίου, ἀγαπᾶν Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν ἡμῶν, πορεύεσθαι πάσαισ ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ αὐτοῦ, φυλάξασθαι τὰσ ἐντολὰσ αὐτοῦ καὶ προσκεῖσθαι αὐτῷ καὶ λατρεύειν αὐτῷ ἐξ ὅλησ τῆσ διανοίασ ὑμῶν καὶ ἐξ ὅλησ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 22:5)
  • ἅπερ ὕστερον αἰσθόμενοσ, καὶ ὅτι Ῥουτιλιανὸν ἐγὼ ἀπέτρεπον τοῦ γάμου καὶ τοῦ πάνυ προσκεῖσθαι ταῖσ τοῦ χρηστηρίου ἐλπίσιν, ἐμίσει, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, καὶ ἔχθιστον ἡγεῖτο. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 54:7)
  • ἀλλὰ φυλάττου καὶ πρὶν ἐκεῖνον προσκεῖσθαί σοι πρότεροσ σὺ τοὺσ δελφῖνασ μετεωρίζου καὶ τὴν ἄκατον παραβάλλου. (Aristotle, Agon, 1)
  • θεωρήσεισ ὕστερον τὰ τοιαῦτα δὲ πολλὰ προσκεῖσθαι ἄμεινον. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 49:7)

Synonyms

  1. to be involved in or bound up with

  2. to press upon

  3. to press close or hard

  4. to fall to

  5. to be added or attached to

Derived

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

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