Strong G3633οἴομαι
to suppose
- Transliteration
- oiomai oimai
- Pronunciation
- oy'-om-ahee oy'-mahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Middle voice apparently from G3634; to make like (oneself) that is imagine (be of the opinion): - suppose think.
Detailed definition
οἴομαι, οἶμαι
[in LXX for הִנֵּה, Gen.37:7, al.;]
to suppose, expect, imagine; with accusative and inf., Jhn.21:25; with inf., Php.1:17; before ὅτι, Jas.1:7.†
οἶμαι, see: οἴομαι
SYN.. see: ἡγέομαι (AS)
[in LXX for הִנֵּה, Gen.37:7, al.;]
to suppose, expect, imagine; with accusative and inf., Jhn.21:25; with inf., Php.1:17; before ὅτι, Jas.1:7.†
οἶμαι, see: οἴομαι
SYN.. see: ἡγέομαι (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3633 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- suppose2
- think1
First verses
- John 21:25And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
- Philippians 1:16The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
- James 1:7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Occurrences by book
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
οἴομαι,
in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] always un contraction ὀΐομαι (except οἴομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.193, οἴοιτο 17.580, 22.12))], see below:—the shortened form οἶμαι is the one chiefly used in Trag., οἴομαι only in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 758, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 28)]; but οἴομαι is frequently in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus (“Eq.” 407, +others); 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)] does not use either form; in Attic dialect Prose codices vary, but οἶμαι prevails, and was exclusively used in parenthesis (see. infr. IV): imperfect ᾠόμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 270, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 791, etc.; also 1 _person_ ᾤμην [prev. author] “fragment” 636, etc.)]: future οἰήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 30.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 397a, etc., later οἰηθήσομαι 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ τῆς ἀρίστης διδασκαλίας” 42)]:—Epic dialect aorist ὠϊσάμην (see. below): aorist ὠΐσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.453, 16.475)]; participle ὀϊσθείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.453)]; Attic dialect and Ionic dialect aorist ᾠήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 14, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.8, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.130, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 178c, etc.)]; but rare in Comedy texts and Trag., οἰηθῇς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 860, οἰηθείς, -εῖσα, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 194.2, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 986)]; also aorist infinitive οἰήσασθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 896)]:—active, Epic dialect present ὀΐω and οἴω, but only in 1st pers. singular (see. below); Laconian dialect οἰῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 81, 156, 998, 5th-6th c.BC(?): Epilycus Comicus 3)]. [In the un contraction forms, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses ῑ in ὀΐομαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.644, ὀΐεαι 1.561, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.380, ὀΐεται 17.586, ὀϊόμεθ᾽ 21.322, 22.165, ὀϊόμενος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.728, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.351, +others (οἰόμενος 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 8.2), ὠΐετο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.248, ὀΐσατο 1.323, 9.213, 19.390, ὀϊσάμενος 15.443 (but the variant{ὀϊσσατο},{ὀϊσσάμενος} in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] can be supported by ὀϊσσάμενος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.1135, compare “Epica Alexandrina Adespota” 2.41, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1006, by ὑποίζεσθαι (: ὑπονοεῖν) 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, and by ὠῐσάμην 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.291, ὠΐσατο [ῐ] 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.8, etc.))]; active present ὀΐω has ῑ when it stands at the end of a line, also in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.215 (in fourth foot), 18.259 (before caesura in third foot))]; but ῐ in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.558, 13.153, 23.467, etc.; οἴω as _disyllable_ is always at the end, except in 15.298, 21.533, 23.310)].]:—forebode, presage, with accusative, κῆρας ὀϊομένῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.283; γόον δ᾽ ὠΐετο θυμός 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.248)]; expect, ἐελδομένοισι μάλ᾽ ἡμῖν, οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ὀϊομένοισι [Refs (24.401)]; suspect, ἤ τι ὀϊσάμενος, ἢ καὶ θεὸς ὣς ἐκέλευσεν [Refs (9.339; ἦ τινά που δόλον ἄλλον ὀΐεαι 10.380)]; fear, κατὰ θυμὸν ὀΐσατο, μή ἑ λαβοῦσα οὐλὴν ἀμφράσσαιτο [Refs (19.390; τῷ ἑπόμην.., ὀϊόμενός περ, ἀνάγκῃ 14.298: _absolutely_, αἰεὶ μὲν ὀΐεαι, οὐδέ σε λήθω)] thou art ever suspecting, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.561; πατὴρ δ᾽ ἐμὸς αὐτίκ᾽ ὀϊσθεὶς πολλὰ κατηρᾶτο 9.453, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.443: followed by ὡς, καὐτὸς ὀΐεαι ὥς κεν ἐτύχθη)] you can guess how it would have happened, [Refs (3.255, compare 17.586: with _accusative_ et)]future infinitive, ὀΐομαι ἄνδρα χολωσέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.78; ἅ τιν᾽ οὐ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω [prev. work] 289, compare 5.252, 284, +others)]; τὸ καὶ τελέεσθαι ὀΐω [Refs (1.204; ἀλλ᾽ οὐ νῦν ἐρύεσθαι ὀΐομαι 20.195)]: with accusative et present infinitive, referring to present time, οὐδέ τι θυμῷ ὠΐσθη δόλον εἶναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.453, compare 10.232; ὀΐσατο γὰρ θεὸν εἶναι 1.323; τῶ δ᾽ ὀΐω κείνης τάδε πάσχειν ἐννεσίῃσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.894)]: with accusative et aorist infinitive, referring to past time, τῇ δ᾽ ὀΐω κατανεῦσαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.558, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.27, +others: the)]subjunctive of the infinitive must frequently be supplied from the context, διωκέμεναι γὰρ ὀΐω I fear [they] are pursuing me, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.278, compare 1.201, 12.212, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.66, +others: with)]infinitive alone, when both Verbs have the same subject, as κιχήσεσθαι δέ δ᾽ ὀΐω I think I shall catch you, [Refs (6.341)]; mean, intend, with future infinitive, οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγ᾽ ἔτι σοὶ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.296, compare 170, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.215)]: with present infinitive, οὐ γὰρ ὀΐω ἀνδρῶν δυσμενέων ἑκὰς ἱστάμενος πολεμίζειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.262.)]
II impersonal, only [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.312, ἀλλά μοι ὧδ᾽ ἀνὰ θυμὸν ὀΐεται)] there comes a boding into my heart.
III think, suppose, believe, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, as 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.59, 5.644, etc.; οἶμαι βοὴν ἄμικτον ἐν πόλει πρέπειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 321)]; οἶμαι γάρ νιν ἱκετεύσειν (ἱκετεῦσαι codices) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 462)]; κτήσεσθαι (-σασθαι codices) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.19)]; διαπράξεσθαι (-ξασθαι codices) [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 13.53; ἤδη γὰρ αὐτοὺς οἴομαι δεδειπνάναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 464)]; opposed to εἰδέναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 506c4; οἴονται, ἴσασι δ᾽ οὐδέν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1389b17, compare “APo.” 75a15: followed by ὅτι.., 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.90b)]:—passive, μάρτυρας δύο παρεχέτω ὀμνύντας οἰόμενον that he is the putative father, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Schwyzer 784a (Tenos, 4th c.BC).)]
IV parenthetically, mostly in first person, ἐν πρώτοισιν, ὀΐω, κείσεται among the first, I ween, will he be lying, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.536; ἔπειτά γ᾽, ὀΐω, γνώσεαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.309, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.153, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.255, etc.: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in _active_ form ὀΐω, except ὀΐομαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.140, and perhaps 14.363, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 758)]; in Attic dialect this parenthetic use is probably confined to the shorter form οἶμαι, imperfect ᾤμη; rarely in other persons than the first, as οὐκ οἴει ἀναγκασθήσετα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 486c, compare “Tht.” 147b)]; πόσης οἴεσθε γέμει σωφροσύνη; [Refs ([prev. author] “Smp.” 216d.)]
IV.2 expressive of modesty or courtesy, to avoid over-great bluntness of assertion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Grg.” 483c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.11, etc.)]: even between a preposition and its case, ἐξ οἶμαι τῆς ἀκροτάτης ἐλευθερίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 564a; ἐν οἶμαι πολλοῖς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.3)]; or between Article and substantive, οἱ γὰρ οἶμαι βέλτιστοι [Refs ([prev. author] 54.38.)]
V answering a question, I think so, I should think so, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 919, etc.; νὴ τὸν Ἡρακλέα, οἶμαί γε [prev. author] “Th.” 27; οἶμαι ἔγωγε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 47d, etc.)]; οἴεσθαί γε χρή one must think so, it would seem so, [Refs ([prev. author] “Prt.” 325c, “Cri.” 53d, “Phd.” 68b, “Grg.” 522a.)]
VI Attic dialect phrases:
VI.1 πῶς οἴε; you can't think how, to add force, like{πῶς δοκεῖς}; πόθος τὴν καρδίαν ἐπάταξε πῶς οἴει σφόδρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 54.)]
VI.2 οἴομαι δεῖν I think it my duty, think fit, hence sometimes, intend, purpose, λέγειν οἴεται δεῖν ποιεῖν δεινούς his object is to train orators, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 95c, compare 86b, “Tht.” 207e; βδελυρὸς καὶ ὑβριστὴς ᾤετο δεῖν εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.143; τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἀμυνόμενοι τεθνάναι δεῖν ᾤοντο [prev. author] 60.31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 316c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.26, “Mem.” 4.6.3, 6)]; [ὁ ἀκόλαστος] οἰόμενος δεῖν [διώκει τὰ ἡδέα] intentionally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1152a6, compare 1136b8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hipparchus” 225b)]; but οἴομαι δὲ δεῖν οὐδέν methinks there is no need, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 28; and in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.144d ἆρ᾽ οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον.. οἰηθῆναι δεῖν.. ἡμᾶς εἰδέναι ἢ τῷ ὄντι εἰδέναι)]; must we not either think we know or really know? (δεῖν being superfluous).
VI.3 οἴομαι without δεῖν I mean to, intend, οὐκ οἴει.. δοῦναι δίκη; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.26, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 62d, “Ly.” 200b, “Ep.” 324b)]; οὐ βαλεῖν (variant{βάλλειν}).. ᾠήθη [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1135b14, compare 1172a7.)]
in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] always un contraction ὀΐομαι (except οἴομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.193, οἴοιτο 17.580, 22.12))], see below:—the shortened form οἶμαι is the one chiefly used in Trag., οἴομαι only in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 758, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 28)]; but οἴομαι is frequently in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus (“Eq.” 407, +others); 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)] does not use either form; in Attic dialect Prose codices vary, but οἶμαι prevails, and was exclusively used in parenthesis (see. infr. IV): imperfect ᾠόμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 270, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 791, etc.; also 1 _person_ ᾤμην [prev. author] “fragment” 636, etc.)]: future οἰήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 30.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 397a, etc., later οἰηθήσομαι 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ τῆς ἀρίστης διδασκαλίας” 42)]:—Epic dialect aorist ὠϊσάμην (see. below): aorist ὠΐσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.453, 16.475)]; participle ὀϊσθείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.453)]; Attic dialect and Ionic dialect aorist ᾠήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 14, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.8, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.130, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 178c, etc.)]; but rare in Comedy texts and Trag., οἰηθῇς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 860, οἰηθείς, -εῖσα, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 194.2, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 986)]; also aorist infinitive οἰήσασθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 896)]:—active, Epic dialect present ὀΐω and οἴω, but only in 1st pers. singular (see. below); Laconian dialect οἰῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 81, 156, 998, 5th-6th c.BC(?): Epilycus Comicus 3)]. [In the un contraction forms, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses ῑ in ὀΐομαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.644, ὀΐεαι 1.561, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.380, ὀΐεται 17.586, ὀϊόμεθ᾽ 21.322, 22.165, ὀϊόμενος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.728, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.351, +others (οἰόμενος 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 8.2), ὠΐετο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.248, ὀΐσατο 1.323, 9.213, 19.390, ὀϊσάμενος 15.443 (but the variant{ὀϊσσατο},{ὀϊσσάμενος} in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] can be supported by ὀϊσσάμενος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.1135, compare “Epica Alexandrina Adespota” 2.41, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1006, by ὑποίζεσθαι (: ὑπονοεῖν) 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, and by ὠῐσάμην 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.291, ὠΐσατο [ῐ] 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.8, etc.))]; active present ὀΐω has ῑ when it stands at the end of a line, also in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.215 (in fourth foot), 18.259 (before caesura in third foot))]; but ῐ in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.558, 13.153, 23.467, etc.; οἴω as _disyllable_ is always at the end, except in 15.298, 21.533, 23.310)].]:—forebode, presage, with accusative, κῆρας ὀϊομένῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.283; γόον δ᾽ ὠΐετο θυμός 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.248)]; expect, ἐελδομένοισι μάλ᾽ ἡμῖν, οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ὀϊομένοισι [Refs (24.401)]; suspect, ἤ τι ὀϊσάμενος, ἢ καὶ θεὸς ὣς ἐκέλευσεν [Refs (9.339; ἦ τινά που δόλον ἄλλον ὀΐεαι 10.380)]; fear, κατὰ θυμὸν ὀΐσατο, μή ἑ λαβοῦσα οὐλὴν ἀμφράσσαιτο [Refs (19.390; τῷ ἑπόμην.., ὀϊόμενός περ, ἀνάγκῃ 14.298: _absolutely_, αἰεὶ μὲν ὀΐεαι, οὐδέ σε λήθω)] thou art ever suspecting, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.561; πατὴρ δ᾽ ἐμὸς αὐτίκ᾽ ὀϊσθεὶς πολλὰ κατηρᾶτο 9.453, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.443: followed by ὡς, καὐτὸς ὀΐεαι ὥς κεν ἐτύχθη)] you can guess how it would have happened, [Refs (3.255, compare 17.586: with _accusative_ et)]future infinitive, ὀΐομαι ἄνδρα χολωσέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.78; ἅ τιν᾽ οὐ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω [prev. work] 289, compare 5.252, 284, +others)]; τὸ καὶ τελέεσθαι ὀΐω [Refs (1.204; ἀλλ᾽ οὐ νῦν ἐρύεσθαι ὀΐομαι 20.195)]: with accusative et present infinitive, referring to present time, οὐδέ τι θυμῷ ὠΐσθη δόλον εἶναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.453, compare 10.232; ὀΐσατο γὰρ θεὸν εἶναι 1.323; τῶ δ᾽ ὀΐω κείνης τάδε πάσχειν ἐννεσίῃσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.894)]: with accusative et aorist infinitive, referring to past time, τῇ δ᾽ ὀΐω κατανεῦσαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.558, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.27, +others: the)]subjunctive of the infinitive must frequently be supplied from the context, διωκέμεναι γὰρ ὀΐω I fear [they] are pursuing me, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.278, compare 1.201, 12.212, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.66, +others: with)]infinitive alone, when both Verbs have the same subject, as κιχήσεσθαι δέ δ᾽ ὀΐω I think I shall catch you, [Refs (6.341)]; mean, intend, with future infinitive, οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγ᾽ ἔτι σοὶ πείσεσθαι ὀΐω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.296, compare 170, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.215)]: with present infinitive, οὐ γὰρ ὀΐω ἀνδρῶν δυσμενέων ἑκὰς ἱστάμενος πολεμίζειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.262.)]
II impersonal, only [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.312, ἀλλά μοι ὧδ᾽ ἀνὰ θυμὸν ὀΐεται)] there comes a boding into my heart.
III think, suppose, believe, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, as 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.59, 5.644, etc.; οἶμαι βοὴν ἄμικτον ἐν πόλει πρέπειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 321)]; οἶμαι γάρ νιν ἱκετεύσειν (ἱκετεῦσαι codices) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 462)]; κτήσεσθαι (-σασθαι codices) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.19)]; διαπράξεσθαι (-ξασθαι codices) [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 13.53; ἤδη γὰρ αὐτοὺς οἴομαι δεδειπνάναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 464)]; opposed to εἰδέναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 506c4; οἴονται, ἴσασι δ᾽ οὐδέν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1389b17, compare “APo.” 75a15: followed by ὅτι.., 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.90b)]:—passive, μάρτυρας δύο παρεχέτω ὀμνύντας οἰόμενον that he is the putative father, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Schwyzer 784a (Tenos, 4th c.BC).)]
IV parenthetically, mostly in first person, ἐν πρώτοισιν, ὀΐω, κείσεται among the first, I ween, will he be lying, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.536; ἔπειτά γ᾽, ὀΐω, γνώσεαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.309, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.153, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.255, etc.: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus only in _active_ form ὀΐω, except ὀΐομαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.140, and perhaps 14.363, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 758)]; in Attic dialect this parenthetic use is probably confined to the shorter form οἶμαι, imperfect ᾤμη; rarely in other persons than the first, as οὐκ οἴει ἀναγκασθήσετα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 486c, compare “Tht.” 147b)]; πόσης οἴεσθε γέμει σωφροσύνη; [Refs ([prev. author] “Smp.” 216d.)]
IV.2 expressive of modesty or courtesy, to avoid over-great bluntness of assertion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Grg.” 483c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.11, etc.)]: even between a preposition and its case, ἐξ οἶμαι τῆς ἀκροτάτης ἐλευθερίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 564a; ἐν οἶμαι πολλοῖς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.3)]; or between Article and substantive, οἱ γὰρ οἶμαι βέλτιστοι [Refs ([prev. author] 54.38.)]
V answering a question, I think so, I should think so, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 919, etc.; νὴ τὸν Ἡρακλέα, οἶμαί γε [prev. author] “Th.” 27; οἶμαι ἔγωγε 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 47d, etc.)]; οἴεσθαί γε χρή one must think so, it would seem so, [Refs ([prev. author] “Prt.” 325c, “Cri.” 53d, “Phd.” 68b, “Grg.” 522a.)]
VI Attic dialect phrases:
VI.1 πῶς οἴε; you can't think how, to add force, like{πῶς δοκεῖς}; πόθος τὴν καρδίαν ἐπάταξε πῶς οἴει σφόδρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 54.)]
VI.2 οἴομαι δεῖν I think it my duty, think fit, hence sometimes, intend, purpose, λέγειν οἴεται δεῖν ποιεῖν δεινούς his object is to train orators, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 95c, compare 86b, “Tht.” 207e; βδελυρὸς καὶ ὑβριστὴς ᾤετο δεῖν εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.143; τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἀμυνόμενοι τεθνάναι δεῖν ᾤοντο [prev. author] 60.31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 316c, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.26, “Mem.” 4.6.3, 6)]; [ὁ ἀκόλαστος] οἰόμενος δεῖν [διώκει τὰ ἡδέα] intentionally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1152a6, compare 1136b8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hipparchus” 225b)]; but οἴομαι δὲ δεῖν οὐδέν methinks there is no need, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 28; and in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.144d ἆρ᾽ οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον.. οἰηθῆναι δεῖν.. ἡμᾶς εἰδέναι ἢ τῷ ὄντι εἰδέναι)]; must we not either think we know or really know? (δεῖν being superfluous).
VI.3 οἴομαι without δεῖν I mean to, intend, οὐκ οἴει.. δοῦναι δίκη; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.26, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 62d, “Ly.” 200b, “Ep.” 324b)]; οὐ βαλεῖν (variant{βάλλειν}).. ᾠήθη [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1135b14, compare 1172a7.)]