ἔπω see εἶπον.
Related entry:
εἶπον, 2 aor. act. fr. an obsol. pres.
ΕΠΩ [late Epic and in composition; see Veitch] (cf.
ἔπος [Curtius § 620]), Ion.
ΕΙΠΩ (like
ἐρωτάω,
εἰρωτ.;
ἑλίσσω,
εἱλίσσ.); subjune.
εἴπω, impv.
εἵπέ, inf.
εἰπεῖν, ptep.
εἰπών; 1 aor.
εἶπα (
John 10:34 R G T Tr WH, fr.
Psalm 81-82) 6;
Acts 26:15 L T Tr WH;
Hebrews 3:10 Lchm. fr.
Psalm 94-95 10 add [
Mark 9:18 T WH Tr thx.];
Job 29:18;
32:8, etc.; Sir. 24:31 (29); 1 Macc. 6:11, etc.; cf. Kühner i. 817, [esp. Veitch s. v. pp. 232, 233]), 2 pers. plur.
εἶπας (
Matthew 26:25, [64];
Mark 7:32 [not T WH;
John 4:17 where T WH again
-πες;
Luke 20:39]) 3 pers. plur.
εἶαν (often in L T Tr WH [i. e. out of the 127 instances in which the choice lies between 3 pers. plur.
-πον of the Rec. and
-παν, the latter ending has been adopted by L in 56, by T in 82, by Tr in 74, by WH in 104, cf.
Tdf. Proleg. p. 123], e. g.
Matthew 12:2;
27:6;
John 18:30, etc.); impv.
εἰπόν (
Mark 13:4 L T Tr WH;
Luke 10:40 T WH Tr mrg.;
Acts 28:26 G L T Tr WH, [also
Matthew 4:3 WH;
Matthew 18:17 T WH;
Matthew 17:17 T WH Tr mrg.;
Matthew 24:3 WH;
Luke 20:2 T Tr WH;
Luke 22:66-67 T Tr WH;
John 10:24 T WH], for the Attic
εἶπον, cf. W. § 6, 1 k.; [Chandler § 775]; Fritzsche on Mark p. 515 sqq.; [but Win. (p. 85 (81)) regards
εἰπόν as impv. of the 2nd aor.; cf., too,
Lob. ad Phryn. p. 348; B. 57 (50); esp. Fritz. l. c.]), in the remaining persons
εἰπάτω (
Revelation 22:17),
εἴπατε ([
Matthew 10:27;
21:15];
Matthew 22:4;
26:18, etc.; [
Mark 11:3]; Mark
Mark 14:14;
16:7; [
Luke 10:10;
13:32;
20:3;
Colossians 4:17]),
εἰπάτωσαν (
Acts 24:20) also freq. in Attic, [Veitch s. v.;
WH. App. p. 164;
Rutherford, New Phryn. p. 219]; ptep., after the form chiefly Ion.,
εἴπας ([
John 11:28; Tr WH];
Acts 7:37 L T Tr WH [also
Acts 22:24;
24:22;
27:35]); the fut.
ἐρῶ is from the Epic pres.
εἴρω [cf.
Lob. Technol. p. 137]; on the other hand, from
ΡΕΩ come pf.
εἴρηκα, 3 pers. plur.
εἰρἠκασιν (
Acts 17:28),
εἴρηκαν (
Revelation 19:3; see
λίνομαι), inf.
εἰρηκέναι,
Hebrews 10:15 L T Tr WH; Pass., pf. 3 pers. sing.
εἴρηται ptep.
εἰρημένον; plpf.
εἰρήκειν; 1 aor.
ἐρρέθην (
Revelation 6:11;
11:4 and R G T WH in
Matthew 5:21 sqq.; L T Tr WH in
Romans 9:12,
26;
Galations 3:16), [“strict” (cf. Veitch p. 575)] Attic
ἐρρήθην (
Matthew 5:21 sqq.; L Tr; R G in
Romans 9:12,
26;
Galations 3:16; [cf. B. 57 (50);
WH. App. p. 166]), ptep.
ῥηθείς,
ῥηθέν; Sept. for
אָתַר;
to speak,
say, wheather orally or by letter;
1. with an accus. of the obj.;
a. with acc. of the thing:
εἰπεῖν λόγον,
Matthew 8:8 Rec.;
John 2:22 [L T Tr WH];
John 7:36;
18:9,
32;
ῥῆμα,
Mark 14:72 [Knapp et al.];
εἰπεῖν λόγον εἴς τινα, i. q.
βλασφημεῖν,
Luke 12:10; also
κατά τινος,
Matthew 12:32;
ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν,
so to say (a phrase freq. in class. Grk., cf.
Weiske, De pleonasmis gr. p. 47; Matthiae § 545; Delitzsch on Hebrews as below; [Kühner § 585, 3; Krüger § 55, 1, 2; Goodwin § 100; W. 449 (419); 317 (298)],
Hebrews 7:9, (opp. to
ἀκριβεῖ λόγῳ, Plat. rep. 1, 341 b.);
τὴν ἀλήθειαν,
Mark 5:33;
ἀλήθειαν ἐρῶ,
2 Corinthians 12:6;
τοῦτο ἀληθὲς εἴρηκας,
John 4:18 [W. 464 (433) n.];
τί εἴπω;
what shall I say? (the expression of one who is in doubt what to say),
John 12:27;
πῶς ἐρεῖ τὸ ἀμὴν…;
1 Corinthians 14:16;
τί ἐροῦμεν; or
τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν;
what shall we say? i. e. what reply can we make? or, to what does that bring us? only in the Epistle to the Romans [W. § 40, 6] viz.
Romans 3:5;
6:1;
7:7;
9:14,
30; with
πρὸς ταῦτα added,
Romans 8:31;
εἰπεῖν τι περί τινος,
John 7:39;
10:41. Sayings fromthe Old Testament which are quoted in the New Testament are usually introduced as follows:
τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ τοὑ [L T Tr WH om.
τοῦ]
κυρίου διὰ τοῦ προφήτου Matthew 2:17 L T Tr WH,
Matthew 2:23;
4:14;
8:17;
12:17;
13:35;
21:4;
27:9;
τὸ εἰρημένον διὰ τοῦ προφ.
Acts 2:16;
τὸ εἰρημένον,
Luke 2:24;
Acts 13:40;
Romans 4:18;
ἐρρέθη Matthew 5:21, etc.;
καθὼς εἴρηκεν, Hebrews 4:3.
b. with acc. of the pers.
to speak of, designate by words:
ὅν εἶπον,
John 1:15 [(not WH txt.); B. 377 (323); cf.
Romans 4:1 WH txt. (
say of)];
ὁ ῥηθείς,
Matthew 3:3.
εἰπεῖν τινα καλῶς,
to speak well of one, praise him,
Luke 6:26, (
εὖ εἰπεῖν τινα, Home. Od. 1, 302);
κακῶς,
to speak ill of one,
Acts 23:5 fr.
Exodus 22:28; cf. Kühner § 409, 2; 411, 5; [W. § 32, 1 b. β.; B. 146 (128)].
c. with an ellipsis of the acc.
αὐτό (see
αὐτός, II. 3)
Luke 22:67;
John 9:27;
16:4, etc.
σὺεἶπας (sc.
αὐτό), i. e. you have just expressed it in words; that's it; it is just as you say:
Matthew 26:25,
64; [a rabbinical formula; for exx. cf. Schoettgen or Wetstein on verse
Matthew 26:25; al. seem to regard the answer as non-committal, e. g. Origen on verse
Matthew 26:64 (opp. iii. 910 De la Rue);
Wünsche, Erläut. der Evang. aus Talmud usw. on verse
Matthew 26:25; but cf. the
ἐγώ εἰμι of
Mark 14:62; in
Matthew 26:64 WH mrg. take it interrogatively].
2. the person, to whom a thing is said, is indicated
a. by a dat.:
εἰπεῖν τί τινι,
Luke 7:40, and very often;
εἶπον ὑμῖν sc.
αὐτό,
I (have just)
told it
you;
this is what I mean; let this be the word:
Matthew 28:7; cf. Bnhdy. p. 381; Jelf § 403, 1; Goodwin § 19, 5; esp. (for exx.)
Herm. Vig. p. 746].
τινὶ περι τινος [cf. W. § 47, 4],
Matthew 17:13;
John 18:34. to say anything to one by way of censure,
Matthew 21:3; to cast in one's teeth,
ἐρεῖτέ μοι τὴν παραβολήν,
Luke 4:23 to tell what anything means, e. g.
τὸ μυστὴριον,
Revelation 17:7.
b. by the use of a prep.:
πρός τινα [cf. B. 172 (150); Krüger § 48, 7, 13],
to say (a thing)
to one, as
Luke 4:23,
5:4,
12:16, and many other places in Luke;
to say a thing in reference to one [W. 405 (378)],
Mark 12:12;
Luke 18:9;
20:19.
3. εἶπον, to say, speak, simply and without an acc. of the obj. i. e. merely to declare in words, to use language;
a. with the addition of an adverb or of some other adjunct:
ὁμοίως,
Matthew 26:35;
ὡσαύτως,
Matthew 21:30;
καθώς,
Matthew 28:6;
Luke 24:24;
John 1:23;
7:38;
εἶπε διὰ παραβολῆς, making use of parable [see
διὰ, A. III. 3] he spake,
Luke 8:4;
ἐν παραβολαῖς,
Matthew 22:1; with an instrumental dative:
εἶπε λόγῳ, say in (using only) a (single) word, sc. that my servant shall be heald,
Matthew 8:8 (where Rec.
λόγον);
Luke 7:7.
b. with the words spoken added in direct discourse; so a hundred times in the historical books of the New Testament, as
Matthew 9:4 sq.;
Matthew 8:32; [
Matthew 15:4 L Tr WH], etc.;
1 Corinthians 12:15; [
2 Corinthians 4:6 L text T Tr WH, (cf. 4 below)];
Hebrews 1:5;
3:10;
10:7, [
Hebrews 10:15 L T Tr WH],
Hebrews 10:30;
12:21;
James 2:3,
11;
Jude 1:9;
Revelation 7:14;
πέμψας εἶπεν he said by a messenger or messengers,
Matthew 11:2 sq. The following and other phrases are freq. in the Synoptic Gospels:
ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν, as
Matthew 4:4;
15:13;
καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν,
Matthew 24:4;
ἀποκριθεῖσα ἡ μήτηρ εἶπεν,
Luke 1:60;
ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Σίμων εἶπεν,
Luke 7:43, etc.;
ἀποκριθέντες δὲ εἶπεν [
-παν T Tr WH],
Luke 20:24; but John usually writes
ἀπεκρίθη καὶ εἶπεν:
John 1:48 (
John 1:49);
John 2:19;
3:10;
4:10,
13,
17;
6:26,
29;
8:16,
20 [R G],
John 8:52;
9:11 [R G L br.]
John 9:30,
36 [L Tr mrg. om. WH br.
κ.
εἶπ.];
John 13:7;
14:23;
18:30; — [
εἶπαν αὐτῷ λέγοντες,
Mark 8:28 T WH Tr mrg., cf.
Mark 12:26].
d. followed by acc. and inf.:
τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν Ἀβραὰμ τὸν πατέρα ἡμῶν εὑρηκέναι [WH txt. om. Tr mrg. br.
ευρηκ.; cf. 1 b. above]
κατὰ σάρκα;
Romans 4:1.
4. εἰπεῖν sometimes involves in it the idea of
commanding [ cf. B. 275 sq. (237)]: followed by the inf.,
εἶπε δοθῆναι αὐτῇ φαγεῖν,
Mark 5:43;
εἰπὲ τῷ ἀδελφῷ μου μερίσασφαι μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ τὴν κληρονομίαν,
Luke 12:13;
ὅσα ἄν εἴπωσιν ὑμῖν (sc.
τηρεῖν [inserted in R G]),
τηρεῖτε,
Matthew 23:3 (Sap. ix. 8). followed by the acc. and inf.,
ὁ εἰπὼν ἐκ σκότους φῶς λάμψαι,
2 Corinthians 4:6 [R G L mrg., cf. B. 273 sq. (235); but L txt. T Tr WH read
λάμψει, thus changing the construction from the acc. with infin. to direct discourse, see 3 b. above];
εἶπεν αὐτῷ (for
ἑαυτῷ, see
αὑτοῦ)
φωνηθῆναι τοὺς δούλους τούτους, he commanded to be called for him (i. e. to him) these servants,
Luke 19:15; cf. W. § 44, 3 b.; Krüger § 55, 3, 13. followed by
ἵνα with the subjunc.:
Matthew 4:3;
20:21;
Luke 4:3; to
εἰπείν is added a dat. of the pers. bidden to do something,
Mark 3:9;
Luke 10:40; cf.
Luke 4:3;
Revelation 6:11;
9:4. “Moreover, notice that
ἵνα and
ὄφρα are often used by the later poets after verbs of commanding;”
Hermann ad Vig. p. 849; cf. W. § 44, 8; [B. 237 (204)].
6. εἰπεῖν τινα with a predicate accus.
to call, style, one:
ἐκείνους εἶπε θεούς,
John 10:35;
ὑμᾶς εἴρηκα φἰλους John 15:15; (Home. Od. 19, 334; Xen. apol. Sorc. § 15; Lcian. Tim. § 20). [Compare:
ἀντ-,
ἀπ-,
προ- εῖπον.]
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