εὔχομαι: Difference between revisions

|txtha=[[imperfect]] ηὐχόμην (εὐχόμην (T Tr, [[see]] [[εὐδοκέω]] at the [[beginning]] (cf. Veitch, [[under]] the [[word]]; Tdf. Proleg., p. 121)); (1st aorist [[middle]] [[εὐξάμην]] Tdf., [[where]] others [[read]] the optative ἐυχαιμην; deponent [[verb]], cf. Winer's Grammar, § 38,7);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[pray]] to God (the Sept. in [[this]] [[sense]] for הִתְפַּלֵּל and עָתַר): τῷ Θεῷ (as [[very]] [[often]] in classical Greek from [[Homer]] [[down]] (cf. Winer s Grammar, 212 (199); Buttmann, 177 (154))), followed by the accusative [[with]] an infinitive, [[πρός]] [[τόν]] Θεόν ([[Xenophon]], mem. 1,3, 2; symp. 4,55; [[often]] in the Sept.), followed by the accusative [[with]] infinitive [[ὑπέρ]] [[with]] the genitive of [[person]], for [[one]], L WH [[text]] Tr marginal [[reading]] προσεύχεσθε ([[Xenophon]], mem. 2,2, 10). (Synonym: [[see]] [[αἰτέω]], at the [[end]])<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[wish]]: τί, to [[pray]], [[pray]] for, in [[both]] the [[preceding]] passages); ηὐχόμην (on [[this]] [[use]] of the [[imperfect]] cf. Winer s Grammar, 283 (266); Buttmann, § 139,15; (Lightfoot on [[εἶναι]], I could [[wish]] to be, [[προσεύχομαι]].)