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ὑπισχνέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπισχνέομαι ὑποσχήσομαι ὑπεσχόμην ὑπέσχημαι

Structure: ὑπ (Prefix) + ἰσχνέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a collat. form of u(pe/xomai

Sense

  1. to promise or engage, to take upon oneself, to undertake to do, to promise
  2. to promise, make promises
  3. to profess that, profess, to profess

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect 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

  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ὑπισχνεῖτο καὶ ἕτερα διαγράψαι πεντήκοντα πρὸσ τοῖσ ἑκατόν, ἐὰν συγχωρηθῇ διὰ τῆσ ἐξουσίασ αὐτοῦ γυμνάσιον καὶ ἐφηβεῖον αὐτῷ συστήσασθαι καὶ τοὺσ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοισ Ἀντιοχεῖσ ἀναγράψαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:9)
  • καὶ ἀσφαλῶσ βοηθήσειν, ὡσ μὴ γένοιτό τι τούτων, αὐτὸσ ὑπισχνεῖτο αὐτοῖσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 36:2)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν παρόντεσ ἄγχειν με καὶ παίειν ἐπειρῶντο ὡσ ἱερόσυλον, καὶ πρότερον ἔτι ἀγανακτήσαντεσ ὅτι Ἀλέξανδρον αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ μὴ προφήτην προσεῖπον ὁ δὲ πάνυ γεννικῶσ καρτερήσασ κατέπαυέν τε αὐτοὺσ καὶ ὑπισχνεῖτο τιθασόν με ῥᾳδίωσ ἀποφανεῖν καὶ δείξειν τὴν Γλύκωνοσ ἀρετήν, ὅτι καὶ τοὺσ πάνυ τραχυνομένουσ φίλουσ ἀπεργάζεται. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 55:4)
  • ἐπακούων δὲ ὁ Ζεὺσ καὶ τὴν εὐχὴν ἑκάστην ἀκριβῶσ ἐξετάζων οὐ πάντα ὑπισχνεῖτο, ἀλλ’ ἕτερον μὲν ἔδωκε πατήρ, ἕτερον δ’ ἀνένευσε· (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 25:9)
  • ὑπισχνεῖτο γάρ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:12)

Synonyms

  1. to promise or engage

  2. to promise

  3. to profess that

Similar forms

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

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