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|strgr=[[middle]] [[voice]] prolonged from a [[primary]] putho ([[which]] occurs [[only]] as an alternate in [[certain]] tenses); to [[question]], i.e. [[ascertain]] by [[inquiry]] (as a [[matter]] of [[information]] [[merely]]; and [[thus]] differing from [[ἐρωτάω]], [[which]] [[properly]] [[means]] a [[request]] as a favor; and from [[αἰτέω]], [[which]] is [[strictly]] a [[demand]] for [[something]] [[due]]; as [[well]] as from [[ζητέω]], [[which]] implies a [[search]] for [[something]] [[hidden]]; and from [[δέομαι]], [[which]] involves the [[idea]] of [[urgent]] [[need]]); by [[implication]], to [[learn]] (by [[casual]] [[intelligence]]): [[ask]], [[demand]], [[enquire]], [[understand]]. | |strgr=[[middle]] [[voice]] prolonged from a [[primary]] putho ([[which]] occurs [[only]] as an alternate in [[certain]] tenses); to [[question]], i.e. [[ascertain]] by [[inquiry]] (as a [[matter]] of [[information]] [[merely]]; and [[thus]] differing from [[ἐρωτάω]], [[which]] [[properly]] [[means]] a [[request]] as a favor; and from [[αἰτέω]], [[which]] is [[strictly]] a [[demand]] for [[something]] [[due]]; as [[well]] as from [[ζητέω]], [[which]] implies a [[search]] for [[something]] [[hidden]]; and from [[δέομαι]], [[which]] involves the [[idea]] of [[urgent]] [[need]]); by [[implication]], to [[learn]] (by [[casual]] [[intelligence]]): [[ask]], [[demand]], [[enquire]], [[understand]]. | ||
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|txtha=[[imperfect]] ἐπυνθανομην; 2nd aorist [[ἐπυθόμην]]; (cf. [[Curtius]], § 328); a deponent [[verb]]; as in classical Greek from [[Homer]] [[down]].<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[inquire]], [[ask]]: followed by an [[indirect]] [[question]] — [[with]] the indicative R G; [[παρά]] τίνος τί (Buttmann, 167 (146)), [[παρά]] τίνος followed by an [[indirect]] [[question]] [[with]] the indicative τί [[περί]] τίνος, to [[ascertain]] by [[inquiry]]: followed by [[ὅτι]], A. V. understood). | |||
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