Sense

1. to sing, laud, sing of, to celebrate, commemorate, I praised, to be sung of, have been praised, the famous
2. to sing
3. to tell over and over and over again, to repeat, recite, rehearse, wilt sing continually, ever singing of, such as oft repeated
4. to sing, chant
5. will ring

Examples

• "ὑμνεῖτο δ’ αἰσχρῶσ, κλῶνα πρὸσ καλὸν δάφνησ, ὁ Φοῖβοσ οὐ προσῳδά τὴν τ’ ἐν αὐλίῳ νόθον τισ ἐξέκλαξε σύγκοιτον φίλην. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 1616)
• "τὴν περὶ τὰ ὄμματα τύχην ἀνιαρῶσ ἔφερον, ὦ Ῥωμαῖοι, νῦν δὲ ἄχθομαι πρὸσ τῷ τυφλὸσ εἶναι μὴ καὶ κωφὸσ ὤν, ἀλλ’ ἀκούων αἰσχρὰ βουλεύματα καὶ δόγματα ὑμῶν ἀνατρέ ποντα τῆσ Ῥώμησ τὸ κλέοσ, ποῦ γὰρ ὑμῶν ὁ πρόσ ἅπαντασ ἀνθρώπουσ θρυλούμενοσ ἀεὶ λόγοσ, ὡσ, εἰ παρῆν ἐκεῖνοσ εἰσ Ἰταλίαν ὁ μέγασ Ἀλέξανδροσ καὶ συνηνέχθη νέοισ ἡμῖν καὶ τοῖσ πατράσιν ἡμῶν ἀκμάζουσιν, οὐκ ἂν ὑμνεῖτο νῦν ἀνίκητοσ, ἀλλ’ ἢ φυγὼν ἂν ἤ ποῦ πεσὼν ἐνταῦθα τὴν Ῥώμην ἐνδοξοτέραν ἀπέλιπε; (Plutarch, chapter 19 1:1)
• τὰ δὲ περὶ αὐτὸν ὄρη τότε ὑμνεῖτο πλῆθοσ καὶ μέγεθοσ καὶ κάλλοσ παρὰ πάντα τὰ νῦν ὄντα γεγονέναι, πολλὰσ μὲν κώμασ καὶ πλουσίασ περιοίκων ἐν ἑαυτοῖσ ἔχοντα, ποταμοὺσ δὲ καὶ λίμνασ καὶ λειμῶνασ τροφὴν τοῖσ πᾶσιν ἡμέροισ καὶ ἀγρίοισ ἱκανὴν θρέμμασιν, ὕλην δὲ καὶ πλήθει καὶ γένεσι ποικίλην σύμπασίν τε τοῖσ ἔργοισ καὶ πρὸσ ἕκαστα ἄφθονον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 83:2)
• ὑμνεῖτο γοῦν ἀνά τε τὰσ κώμασ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσιν Ἡρώδησ ὡσ εἰρήνην αὐτοῖσ καὶ τὰσ κτήσεισ ἀνασεσωκώσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 292:2)

Similar forms

• ὑμνεῖν (38)
• ὑμνεῖτε (34)
• ὑμνεῖ (13)
• ὕμνει (8)
• ὑμνεῖτο (4)
• ὑμνέων (3)
• ὑμνεῦσι (2)
• ὑμνείτω (1)
• ὕμνεις (1)
• ὑμνέειν (1)
• ὕμνευν (1)

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