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Strong's #143 - αἰσθάνομαι
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- to perceive
- by the bodily senses
- with the mind, understand
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αἰσθ-άνομαι
1. (cf. αἴσθομαι), Ion. 3 pl. opt. αἰσθανοίατο Ar. Pax 209: impf. ῃσθανόμην: fut. αἰσθήσομαι S. Ph. 75, etc.; later αἰσθανθήσομαι LXX Isaiah 49:26; αἰσθηθήσομαι ib. 33.11: aor. 2 ᾐσθόμην: pf. ᾔσθημαι: later, aor. 1 ᾐσθησάμην Sch. Arat. 418; ᾐσθήθην LXX Job 40:18 : (cf. ἀΐω): — perceive, apprehend by the senses, Alcmaeon 1a, Hdt. 3.87, Democr. 11, etc.; τῇ ὄψει, τῇ ἁφῇ, τῇ ἀκοῇ Hp. Off. 1; αἰ. τῇ ἀκοῇ, τῇ ὀσμῇ, Th. 6.17, X. Mem. 3.11.8; see, S. Ph. 75, etc.; hear, βοήν Id. Aj. 1318, cf. Ph. 252; οὐκ εἶδον αὐτόν, ᾐσθόμην δ' ἔτ' ὄντανιν ib. 445; τινὸς ὑποστενούσης αἰ. Id. El. 79; βοῆς E. Hipp. 603, etc.
2. of mental perception, perceive, understand, τῇ γνώμῃ αἰσθέσθαι Hp. Off. 1; τὸ πραχθέν Lys. 9.4, cf. Th. 3.36, etc.: — hear, learn, v. infr. 11: abs., αἰσθάνει you are right, E. Or. 752; ᾔσθημαι, in parenthesis, Id. Hipp. 1403. II Construct. in both senses, c. gen., take notice of, have perception of, τῶν κακῶν E. Tr. 638 s. v.l.; rarely περί τινος Th. 1.70; αἰ. ὑπό τινος learn from one, Id. 5.2; διά τινος Pl. Tht. 184e, al.: c. acc., S. El. 89, Ph. 252, E. Hel. 653, 764, etc.: — freq. with part. agreeing with subject, αἰσθάνομαι κάμνων Th. 2.51; αἰσθώμεθα γελοῖοι ὄντες Pl. Thg. 122c; agreeing with object, τυράννους ἐκπεσόντας ᾐσθόμην A. Pr. 957, cf. Th. 1.47, etc.; ἤδη τινῶν ᾐσθόμην ἀχθομένων Lys. 16.20, cf. Pl. Revelation 22:1-21 c; ᾐσθόμην τεχνωμένου Ar. V. 176: less freq. c. acc. et inf., Th. 6.59; αἰ. ὅτι.. Id. 5.2, Pl. Revelation 21:1-27 e, etc.; ᾔσθετο ὅτι τὸ στράτευμα ἦν.. X. An. 1.2.21; αἰ. ὡς.. ib. 3.1.40, etc.; οὕνεκα.. S. El. 1477: — abs., αἰσθανόμενος having full possession of one's faculties, τῇ ἡλικίᾳ Th. 5.26; sensible, of keen perception, καὶ μετρίως αἰσθανομένῳ φανερόν X. Mem. 4.1.1, cf. Th. 1.71, Pl. R. 360d. — The Pass. is supplied by αἴσθησιν παρέχω, cf. αἴσθησις 1.
III display feeling, Arist. Po. 1454b37.
αἰσθάνομαι: 2 aorist ᾐσθόμην; (from Aeschylus down); deponent middle to perceive;
1. by the bodily senses;
2. with the mind; to understand: Luke 9:45.
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This verb, in NT only Luke 9:45, is asserted by Nägeli (p. 57) to be absent from the papyri. This is a still more remarkable oversight than that noted under αἰδώς. A few examples will suffice. P Eleph 13.3 (B.C. 223–2) ἐχάρην ἐπὶ τῶι με αἰσθέσθαι τὰ κατά σε, P Oxy III. 472.3 (c. A.D. 130) οὔτ᾽ ἔφη πρός τινα αἰσθέσθαι οὐδενός (";noticed anything";), BGU II. 372i. 16 (A.D. 154) ἴ ]στωσαν [μ ]ὲν τ ̣[ὸ ]ν. . . ἐκ ταύτ [ης ] τῆς αἰτ [ίας ἔ ]τι κατεχόμενον α [ἰσ ]θήσεσθαι τῆς τοῦ μεγίστου Αὐτοκράτορος εὐ [μ ]εν [εί ]ας (see Chrest. I. p. 33), ib. 417.4 (ii/iii A.D.) αἰσθόμε (νον) τὴν τοῦ καιροῦ πικρίαν (note the accus. in a vernacular document), ib. 531ii. 19 (ii/A.D.) α [ἰ ]σθόμενος πῶς με φιλεῖς, and an ostrakon in Archiv vi. p. 220 (iii/B.C.) ἀπόστειλον τοῖς ὑπογεγραμμένοις τὰς πεταλίας κρυφῆι καὶ μηθεὶς αἰσθανέσθω. But it is hardly necessary to go on to the other five or six volumes in which the index contains this verb. It survives in MGr.
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