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σέβομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σέβομαι σεβήσομαι ἐσέφθην

Structure: σέβ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: mostly in pres.

Sense

  1. to feel awe or fear before God, especially when about to do something disgraceful; to feel shame, religious awe, (post-Homeric) to honour with pious awe, to worship, venerate

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 δῴη ὑμῖν καρδίαν πᾶσιν εἰσ τὸ σέβεσθαι αὐτὸν καὶ ποιεῖν αὐτοῦ τὰ θελήματα καρδίᾳ μεγάλῃ καὶ ψυχῇ βουλομένῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 1:3)
  • ἄξια δ’ ἡμῖν προμεμοχθήκασι σέβεσθαι. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, anapests2)
  • ἀνὴρ νομίζει σέβεσθαι τῇ γαμετῇ καὶ γιγνώσκειν μόνουσ προσήκει, περιέργοισ δὲ θρησκείαισ καὶ ξέναισ δεισιδαιμονίαισ ἀποκεκλεῖσθαι τὴν αὔλειον, οὐδενὶ γὰρ θεῶν ἱερὰ κλεπτόμενα καὶ λανθάνοντα δρᾶται κεχαρισμένωσ ὑπὸ γυναικόσ. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 19 1:1)
  • τιμῶσι δὲ καὶ Κιτιεῖσ τάφον τινὰ Κίμωνοσ, ὡσ Ναυσικράτησ ὁ ῥήτωρ φησίν, ἐν λοιμῷ καὶ γῆσ ἀφορίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ προστάξαντοσ αὐτοῖσ μὴ ἀμελεῖν Κίμωνοσ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ κρείττονα σέβεσθαι καὶ γεραίρειν. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 4:2)
  • "τιμᾶν δὲ καὶ τὴν εἰκόνα τήνδε καὶ σέβεσθαι τὸ περὶ αὐτὴν γόνιμον, ὡσ ἀνυστόν ἐστιν αἰσθητῷ νοητοῦ καὶ φερομένῳ μένοντοσ, ἐμφάσεισ τινὰσ καὶ εἴδωλα διαλάμπουσαν ἁμωσγέπωσ τῆσ περὶ ἐκεῖνον εὐμενείασ καὶ μακαριότητοσ. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 213)
  • τίνα γὰρ ἔτι πάροσ οἶκον ἕτερον ἢ τὸν ἀπὸ θεογόνων γάμων, τὸν ἀπὸ Ταντάλου, σέβεσθαί με χρή; (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 15)

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