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Strong's #1867 - ἐπαινέω
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ἐπαιν-έω,
Aeol. ἐπαίνημι Simon. 5.19; Lacon. ἐπαινίω Ar. Lys. 198: impf. ἐπῄνεον Il 3.461 (tm.): fut. -έσω Semon. 7.29, S. El. 1057, E. Andr. 465 (lyr.), Heracl. [300], Pl. Smp. 214e (dub. l.), X. An. 1.4.16, 5.5.8: but more freq. -έσομαι E. Ba. 1195 (lyr.), Pl. Smp. 199a, R. 379e, 383a, X. HG 3.2.6, D. 2.31, etc.; poet. -ήσω Thgn. 93 codd., Pi. P. 10.69: aor. 1 ἐπῄνεσα S. Aj. 536, Th. 1.86, etc. (v. infr.); poet. (not Trag.) ἐπῄνησα Il. 2.335, 18.312, Thgn. 876, Pi. P. 4.168, 189: also Aeol. prose, Schwyzer 622.21, 623.31, 636.17 (but -έσαι 623.34): pf. ἐπῄνεκα Isoc. 12.207,261, Pl. Plt. 307a, etc.:
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1. — Med., aor. ἐπῃνησάμην Them. Or. 16.200c; -εσάμην Phalar. 147: — Pass., fut. ἐπαινεθήσομαι And. 2.13, Pl. R. 474d; later ἐπαινηθήσομαι Longus 4.4 codd.: aor. ἐπῃνέθην Th. 2.25, Isoc. 12.146, etc.; but ἐπῃνήθην SIG 708.20 (Istropolis, ii B. C.): pf. ἐπῄνημαι Hp. Acut. 51, Isoc. 12.233: = αἰνέω (for which it is regularly used in Att.): — approve, applaud, commend, in Hom. mostly abs., ἐπὶ δ' ᾔνεον ἄλλοι Ἀχαιοί Il. 3.461, etc.: c. acc. rei, μῦθον ἐπαινήσαντες Ὀδυσσῆος 2.335; μῦθον ἐ. πρεσβυτέροισι h.Merc. 457; σύνθεσιν Pi. P. 4.168: c. dat. pers., agree with, side with, Ἕκτορι μὲν γὰρ ἐπῄνησαν Il. 18.312: abs., assent, agree, Ar. Av. 1616; ἐπαινεσάντων δ' αὐτῶν on their assent, Th. 4.65.
2. praise, commend in any way (the usu. sense in Att. and Trag.), τινά or τι, Alc. 37 A, Hdt. 3.34, 6.130; τὸ λίαν ἧσσον ἐ. τοῦ μηδὲν ἄγαν E. Hipp. 264; ἐ. τινά τι commend one for a thing, but in this case the thing is always a neut. Pron. or Adj., τὰ μέν σ' ἐπαινῶ A. Pr. 342 (cf. 111); πάντ' ἔχω σ' ἐπαινέσαι S. Aj. 1381, cf. Pl. Smp. 222a; in Din. 3.22 ἐπαινεῖσθαι ταῖς ζητήσεσιν, [ἐπί] shd. be read; ἐπί τινι.. καὶ διότι Inscr.Prien. 44.17 (ii B. C.); εἴς τι Pl. Alc. 1.111a; κατά τι D.S. 1.37; πρός τι Pl. Tht. 145b; also ἐ. τινά τινος Plu. 2.1c, Luc. Herm. 42 (but ἐ. τί τινος praise something in some one, Pl. Prt. 361d): c.acc. cogn., ἔπαινον ἐ. Id. La. 181b: c. part., ἐπαινέσεσθαί τινα ἀνασχόμενον D. 21.73; ἐ. τινὰ ὅτι.. Pl. Grg. 471d; ἐ. τινὰ πρός τινα praise one man to another, Id. R. 501c; esp. compliment publicly, [Βρασίδας] πρῶτος τῶν κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐπῃνέθη ἐν Σπάρτῃ Th. 2.25; freq. in honorary Inscrr., cf. IG 22.102, Inscr.Prien. l.c., etc.: c. dat. pers., τῷ δήμῳ τῷ Σαμίων IG 12.101.2, cf. SIG 604.11 (Delph., ii B. C.).
3. of things, [πολιτεία] ὑπὸ πάντων -ουμένη Isoc. 12.118, cf. Arist. Pol. 1289a1; νόμοι -ούμενοι Id. Rh. 1375b24; approve, πόλις ἄλλως ἄλλοτ' ἐ. τὰ δίκαια A. Th. 1077.
4. agree to or undertake to do, ῥώμην μ' ἐπαινῶ λαμβάνειν E. Andr. 553; ἐ. εἰς τὸ λοιπόν PTeb. 8.18 (iii B. C.).
5. aor. ἐπῄνεσα in Att. in pres. sense, ἐπῄνεσ' ἔργον I commend it, S. Aj. 536: abs., well done! Id. Fr. 282, Ar. Ach. 485, cf. E. Alc. 1095, Med. 707.
II = παραινέω, recommend, advise, τοιούσδ' ἐπαινεῖς δῆτα δὺ κτᾶσθαι φίλους; S. Aj. 1360, cf. A. Th. 596, Supp. 996: c. dat. et inf., ὑμῖν δ' ἐπαινῶ γλῶσσαν εὔφημον φέρειν Id. Ch. 581; σιγᾶν ἐπῄνεσ' (cf. 1.5) S. El. 1322, cf. OC 665.
III as a civil form of declining an offer or invitation, I thank you, I am much obliged, κάλλιστ', ἐπαινῶ Ar. Ra. 508 (ubi v. Sch.), cf. A. Pr. 342; so ἐ. τὴν κλῆσιν decline it, X. Smp. 1.7, cf. An. 7.7.52. of Rhapsodists, recite, declaim publicly, Pl. Ion 536d, 541e.
ἐπαινέω, ἐπαινῶ; future ἐπαινέσω (1 Corinthians 11:22, for the more common ἐπαινέσομαι, cf. Winers Grammar, 86 (82); (Buttmann, 53 (46)); L text Tr marginal reading ἐπαινῶ); 1 aorist ἐπῄνεσα; (ἔπαινος); from Homer down; the Sept. for הִלֵּל and שִׁבַּח; to approve, to praise (with the ἐπί cf. German be- inbeloben (Passow, under the word ἐπί, IV. C. 3 cc.)): τινα, Romans 15:11; 1 Corinthians 11:22; τινα, followed by ὅτι (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 9 b.), Luke 16:8; 1 Corinthians 11:2; absolutely, followed by ὅτι, 1 Corinthians 11:17.
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ἐπ -αινέω , -ῶ ,
[in LXX for H1984 pi., H7623 pi.;]
to praise: c. acc, Romans 15:11, 1 Corinthians 11:22; seq. ὅτι , Luke 16:8, 1 Corinthians 11:2; absol., seq. ὅτι , 1 Corinthians 11:17.†
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Syll 192.62 (B.C. 290–87) καὶ ] ἐπὶ πᾶσι τούτοις ἐπείνεκε (for form see Meisterhans Gr. p. 171) καὶ ἐστεφάνωκεν αὐτὸν ὁ δῆμος [οὐθὲν ἐλλείποντα ] σπονδῆς πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, Magn 115 a. .13 (ii/A.D.) ὅτι μὲν γὰ [ρ τ ]ὴν ἐμὴν ἐκπονεῖς [γ ]ῆν. . . ἐπαι [ν ]ῶ σὴν πρόθεσιν. According to Meisterhans Gr. p. 211 the construction with the acc. prevails from B.C. 350 : previous to that the verb is found also with the dative. For the constr. in Luke 16:8 with the acc. of the person and the gen. of the thing we may compare IMAe iii. 910 Θ. τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα. . . στοργῆς καὶ καλοκἀγαθίας ἧς ἔσχεν ἰς ἐμὲ ἀφηρόϊσεν (";canonized as a hero";). In P Eleph 13.4 (B.C. 223–2) ἐγὼ οὖν ἐπυνθανόμην τοῦ Σανῶτος, εἴ τι βούλοιτο ἐν τοῖς καθ ̣̕ ἡ ̣μ ̣ᾶς τόποις, ὁ δὲ ἐπήινει μόνον, ἐπέταξεν δ᾽ οὐθέν, ἐπήινει is = ";approbabat,"; ";assentiebatur,"; almost = ";thanked me,"; ";said he was obliged"; (cf. the classical formula, κάλλιστ᾽ ἐπαινῶ), a sense which apparently does not occur elsewhere in the papyri : see Witkowski’s note, Epp..2, p. 43. MGr παινῶ retains the meaning ";praise.";
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