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

• καὶ εὐλογητὸν τὸ ὄνομα τῆσ δόξησ αὐτοῦ εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνοσ, καὶ πληρωθήσεται τῆσ δόξησ αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ. γένοιτο, γένοιτο. ̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̓Εξέλιπον οἱ ὕμνοι Δαυί̈δ τοῦ υἱοῦ Ἰεσσαί. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 71:19)
• τῆσ δὲ ἐγκωμιαστικῆσ, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἔξω ζητημάτων ἐστίν, αἱ ὑποθέσεισ εἰσὶν ἢ ἀπὸ προσώπων, ἢ ἀπὸ πραγμάτων, ἀφ’ ὧν καὶ οἱ ἔπαινοι καὶ τὰ ἐγκώμια καὶ οἱ ὕμνοι καὶ τὰ ἀντικείμενα τούτοισ, οἱ ψόγοι. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 11:1)
• ἀναξιφόρμιγγεσ ὕμνοι, τίνα θεόν, τίν’ ἡρ́ωα, τίνα δ’ ἄνδρα κελαδήσομεν; (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 2 1:1)
• εἰ δὲ σὺν πόνῳ τισ εὖ πράσσοι, μελιγάρυεσ ὕμνοι ὑστέρων ἀρχὰ λόγων τέλλεται καὶ πιστὸν ὁρ́κιον μεγάλαισ ἀρεταῖσ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 11 1:2)
• εἰ δὲ σώφρων ἄντρον ἔναι’ ἔτι Χείρων, καί τί οἱ φίλτρον ἐν θυμῷ μελιγάρυεσ ὕμνοι ἁμέτεροι τίθεν· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 3 19:2)

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.