ὠφελέω
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom ὄφελος (óphelos) + -έω (-éō).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɔː.pʰe.lé.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /o.pʰeˈle.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /o.ɸeˈle.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /o.feˈle.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /o.feˈle.o/
Verb
editὠφελέω • (ōpheléō)
- to help
- to be useful
- to benefit
- 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 13:1–3:
- Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ […] ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι.
- Eàn taîs glṓssais tôn anthrṓpōn lalô […] agápēn dè mḕ ékhō, oudèn ōpheloûmai.
- Though I speak with the tongues of men […] and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. (KJV)
- (literally, “I have no profit)”)
- Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ […] ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐδὲν ὠφελοῦμαι.
Conjugation
edit Present: ὠφελέω, ὠφελέομαι (Uncontracted)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ὠφέλεον | ὠφέλεες | ὠφέλεε(ν) | ὠφελέετον | ὠφελεέτην | ὠφελέομεν | ὠφελέετε | ὠφέλεον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ὠφελεόμην | ὠφελέου | ὠφελέετο | ὠφελέεσθον | ὠφελεέσθην | ὠφελεόμεθᾰ | ὠφελέεσθε | ὠφελέοντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ὠφέλουν | ὠφέλεις | ὠφέλει | ὠφελεῖτον | ὠφελείτην | ὠφελοῦμεν | ὠφελεῖτε | ὠφέλουν | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ὠφελούμην | ὠφελοῦ | ὠφελεῖτο | ὠφελεῖσθον | ὠφελείσθην | ὠφελούμεθᾰ | ὠφελεῖσθε | ὠφελοῦντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ὠφελήκειν, ὠφελήκη |
ὠφελήκεις, ὠφελήκης |
ὠφελήκει(ν) | ὠφελήκετον | ὠφεληκέτην | ὠφελήκεμεν | ὠφελήκετε | ὠφελήκεσᾰν | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ὠφελήμην | ὠφέλησο | ὠφέλητο | ὠφέλησθον | ὠφελήσθην | ὠφελήμεθᾰ | ὠφέλησθε | ὠφέληντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Descendants
edit- Greek: ωφελώ (ofeló)
Further reading
edit- “ὠφελέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὠφελέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὠφελέω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette