01510

@LINK εἰμί

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1510. εἰμί [The whole of the pres. ind. (except 2nd sg. εἶ) may be enclitic when εἰμί is the Copula; but the 3rd sg. is written ἔστι in certain cases of emphasis, e. g. ἔστι μοι, I have: when used as Verb Subst., it retains the accent in all persons.] A. as Substantive Verb, to be, to exist, οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ οὗτος ἀνήρ, οὐδ᾽ ἔσσεται Od.; τεθνηῶτος, μηδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἐόντος id=Od.; οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστι he is no more, Eur.; θεοὶ αἰὲν ἐόντες Il.; ἐσσόμενοι posterity, id=Il.; ζώντων καὶ ὄντων Ἀθηναίων Dem.:—so of cities, etc., ὄλωλεν, οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἔστι Τροία (cf. Troja fuit), Eur.
II. of things, to be, exist, εἰ ἔστιν ἀληθέως [ἡ τράπεζα] Hdt.; ἕως ἂν ὁ πόλεμος ἦι so long as it last, Thuc.
III. to be, opp. to appearing to be, as esse to videri, τὸν ἐόντα λόγον the true story, Hdt.; τὰ ὄντα ἀπαγγέλλειν Thuc.; τῶι ὄντι, Lat. revera, in reality, in fact, Plat.
IV. foll. by the Relative, οὐκ ἔστιν ὅς, no one, Il., etc.; εἰσὶν οἵ, Lat. sunt qui, Thuc., etc.; ἐστὶν ἅ some things, id=Thuc.; also ἔστιν οἵ, for εἰσὶν οἵ, Hdt., etc.:—so withrelat. Particles, ἔστιν ἔνθα, Lat. est ubi, Xen., etc.; ἔστιν ὅπη, ἔσθ᾽ ὅπου, somewhere, or somehow, Plat., etc.; ἔστιν ὅπως in some manner, Hdt., etc.; ἔστιν ὅτε, ἔσθ᾽ ὅτε, sometimes, Soph., etc.
V. ἔστι impers., c. inf., like πάρεστι, it is possible, Hom., attic
B. to be, Copula connecting predicate with subject, both being in the same case, Hom., etc.
2. sometimes εἶναι with Part. represents finite Verb, ἦν τεθνηκώς, for ἐτεθνήκει, Aesch.; πεφυκός ἐστι ῀ πέφυκε, Ar.
II. the Inf. is redundant in some phrases, ἑκὼν εἶναι (v. ἑκών II); τὸ ἐπ᾽ ἐκείνοις εἶναι quantum in illis esset, Thuc.; τὸ σύμπαν εἶναι Hdt.; τὸ νῦν εἶναι Plat., etc.

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1510. εἰμί eijmiv eimi {i-mee'}
the first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist (used only when emphatic):--am, have been, X it is I, was. See also 1488, 1498, 1511, 1527, 2258, 2071, 2070, 2075, 2076, 2771, 2468, 5600. see GREEK for 1488 see GREEK for 1498 see GREEK for 1511 see GREEK for 1527 see GREEK for 2258 see GREEK for 2071 see GREEK for 2070 see GREEK for 2075 see GREEK for 2076 see GREEK for 2771 see GREEK for 2468 see GREEK for 5600

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1510 gzerah ghez-ay-raw'

(Aramaic) from 1505 (as 1504); a decree:--decree.
see HEBREW for 01505
see HEBREW for 01504