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 εἶπεν Ἐζεκίασ ὁ βασιλεὺσ καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντεσ τοῖσ Λευίταισ ὑμνεῖν τὸν Κύριον ἐν λόγοισ Δαυὶδ καὶ Ἀσὰφ τοῦ προφήτου. καὶ ὕμνουν ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ καὶ ἔπεσον καὶ προσεκύνησαν. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 29:30)
• τὼσ νῦν καὶ ἐμοὶ μυρία πάντᾳ κέλευθοσ ὑμετέραν ἀρετὰν ὑμνεῖν, κυανοπλοκάμου θ’ ἕκατι Νίκασ χαλκεοστέρνου τ’ Ἄρηοσ, Δεινομένευσ ἀγέρω‐ χοι παῖδεσ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 3:1)
• δόξαν, ὦ χρυσαλάκατοι Χάριτεσ, πεισίμβροτον δοίητ’, ἐπεὶ Μουσᾶν γε ϝιοβλεφάρων θεῖοσ προφάτασ εὔτυκοσ Φλειοῦντά τε καὶ Νεμεαίου Ζηνὸσ εὐθαλὲσ πέδον ὑμνεῖν, ὅθι μηλοδαί̈κταν θρέψεν ἁ λευκώλενοσ Ἥρα περικλειτῶν ἀέθλων πρῶτον Ἡρακλεῖ βαρύφθογγον λέοντα. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 9 1:1)
• τούτοισ χρὴ πειθομένουσ, καθάπερ ἐπ̓ ἄλλῳ τῳ ἔργῳ, οὕτω δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ θήρᾳ ἄρχεσθαί τε ἀπὸ θεῶν καὶ χαριστήρια θύειν εὖ πράξαντασ καὶ σπένδειν καὶ εὐφημεῖν καὶ στεφανοῦν καὶ ὑμνεῖν καὶ ἀπαρχὰσ τῶν ἁλισκομένων ἀνατιθέναι, οὐ μεῖον ἣ ἐπὶ νίκῃ πολέμου ἀκροθίνια. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 36 4:1)
• καί μ’ ἐκέλονθ’ ὑμνεῖν μακάρων γένοσ αἰὲν ἐόντων, σφᾶσ δ’ αὐτὰσ πρῶτόν τε καὶ ὕστατον αἰὲν ἀείδειν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 5:4)

Similar forms

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

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