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

• ἀπόκριναι δή, ἔφη ὁ Διονυσόδωροσ, ὁπότε σοι ταῦτα ὕμνηται· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 346:1)
• ὦ Κλεινία, πολλὰ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν καλῶσ ὕμνηται, σχεδὸν δὲ οὐχ ἥκιστα τὰ τῶν Μοιρῶν προσρήματα. (Plato, Laws, book 12 136:3)
• πάντα τε δεῦρο φοιτᾶν τὰ πανταχόθεν κατά τε γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλατταν, καὶ τοῦτ’ εἶναι ὑφ’ οὗ καὶ ἐκ παλαιοτάτου ἀφνειόν τε ὕμνηται χωρίον ὑπὸ τῶν ποιητῶν, ἅμα μὲν διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ τῶν παρόντων ἀγαθῶν, ἅμα δὲ καὶ διὰ τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν εὐδαιμονίαν ἐν αὐτῷ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:1)
• τὰ μὲν δὴ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνοσ εἴρηται τρόπον τινὰ καὶ ὕμνηται, οὐ μεμπτῶσ ὥσ γέ μοι δοκεῖ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:6)
• βάρδοι μὲν ὑμνηταὶ καὶ ποιηταί, ὀυάτεισ δὲ ἱεροποιοὶ καὶ φυσιολόγοι, δρυί̈δαι δὲ πρὸσ τῇ φυσιολογίᾳ καὶ τὴν ἠθικὴν φιλοσοφίαν ἀσκοῦσι· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 4 8:2)

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.