Strong G5346φημί
to assert
- Transliteration
- phēmi
- Pronunciation
- fay-mee'
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
φημί
[in LXX chiefly for נָאַם, also for אָמַר; frequently in 2-4 Mac;]
to declare, say: frequently in quoting the words of another, Mat.13:29 26:61, Luk.7:40 22:58, Jhn.1:23, al.; interjected into the recorded words (cl.), Mat.14:8, Act.23:35, al.; φησί, impersonal (Bl., § 30, 4), 1Co.6:16 (Lft., Notes, 217; but cf. Bl., l.with), 2Co.10:10 (WH, mg., φασίν), Heb.8:5; joined with syn. verb (cf. LS, see word, II, 2), ἀποκριθεὶς αὐτῷ ἔφη, Luk.23:3; before -πρός, Luk.22:70, al.; with accusative of thing(s), 1Co.10:15 10:19; accusative and inf., Rom.3:8; before ὅτι (Bl., § 70, 3), 1Co.10:19 15:50 (cf. σύν-φημι)
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for נָאַם, also for אָמַר; frequently in 2-4 Mac;]
to declare, say: frequently in quoting the words of another, Mat.13:29 26:61, Luk.7:40 22:58, Jhn.1:23, al.; interjected into the recorded words (cl.), Mat.14:8, Act.23:35, al.; φησί, impersonal (Bl., § 30, 4), 1Co.6:16 (Lft., Notes, 217; but cf. Bl., l.with), 2Co.10:10 (WH, mg., φασίν), Heb.8:5; joined with syn. verb (cf. LS, see word, II, 2), ἀποκριθεὶς αὐτῷ ἔφη, Luk.23:3; before -πρός, Luk.22:70, al.; with accusative of thing(s), 1Co.10:15 10:19; accusative and inf., Rom.3:8; before ὅτι (Bl., § 70, 3), 1Co.10:19 15:50 (cf. σύν-φημι)
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5346 appears in 57 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- say51
- saith5
- affirm1
First verses
- Matthew 4:7Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
- Matthew 8:8The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
- Matthew 13:28He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
- Matthew 13:29But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
- Matthew 14:8And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.
- Matthew 17:26Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
- Matthew 19:21Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
- Matthew 21:27And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
- Matthew 25:21His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
- Matthew 25:23His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
- Matthew 26:34Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
- Matthew 26:61And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
- Matthew 27:11And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
- Matthew 27:23And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
- Matthew 27:65Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
- Mark 14:29But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.
- Luke 7:40And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.
- Luke 7:44And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
- Luke 22:58And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.
- Luke 22:70Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
φημί, φῄς, φηις
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 316.1 (3rd c.BC), “PSI” 7.846.7 (Papyrus of 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus (?), 2nd-3rd c.AD))], cf. Hdn.Gr.2.147, 419; φησί (apocopation φή [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 40))]; plural φᾰμέν, φᾰτέ, φᾱσ; Doric dialect φᾱμί, φᾱσί or φᾱτί [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 771, Anonymus in “PSI” 9.1091.11, 18))], 3rd.pers. plural φαντ; Aeolic dialect φᾶμι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 32)], 2nd pers. singular φαῖσθα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 20.6, _3rd.pers._ _sing._ φαῖσι [prev. work]26.5, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 66)], 3rd.pers. plural φαῖσι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 5.2:)]aorist 2 ἔφην, Epic dialect φῆν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.326; ἔφησθα 1.397, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 132, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 438a, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.164, etc. (rarely ἔφης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.280, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.23))], Epic dialect φῆσθα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.186, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.149 (variant{φῇσθα}), φῆς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.473, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.239 (variant))]; ἔφη, Epic dialect φῆ, Doric dialect φᾶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.11)]; 1st pers. plural ἔφᾰμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.26 (ἔφημεν 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 184.7, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.158, 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 524.16, 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.341 H.))]; 2nd pers. plural ἔφᾰτε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.25)]; 3rd.pers. plural ἔφασαν, Epic dialect φάσαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.278, also ἔφᾰν, φάν, 3.161, 6.108; _imperative_ φαθί (on the accent see Hdn.Gr. 1.431, +others, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 264.4)]; φάθι is found in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 475e, +others))]; subjunctive φῶ, φῇς, φῇ, Epic dialect φῇσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.168, φήῃ 11.128, 23.275)]; Doric dialect 3rd.pers. plural subjunctive φᾶντι [Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 1.116)]; optative φαίην, 1st pers. plural φαῖμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.81, 24.222, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.87)], 3rd.pers. plural φαῖεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.68, etc.)]; infinitive φάναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27, etc., poetry φάμεν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.19)]; participle φάς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.35, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.63, 141, “SIG” 279.18 (Zeleia, 4th c.BC), φᾶσα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.135, _plural_ φάντες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.44, 14.126, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.139b:)]future φήσω, Doric dialect φασῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 739, etc.)]; 1st pers. plural φασοῦμες [Refs 5th c.AD+ (Diotogenes Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.1.133)]: aorist 1 ἔφησα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus in “PSI” 11.1212.9, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.153, “PCair.Zen.” 19.3 (3rd c.BC) (ἔφασεν is uncertain [prev. work] 140.7))]; Doric dialect 3rd.pers. singular φᾶσε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.66)]; 2nd pers. singular subjunctive (Doric dialect) φάσῃς [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 32 (φήσῃς etc. codices 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes, corr. Bgk.); _optative_ φήσειε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.69, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 503)], participle φήσας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.239)], infinitive φῆσαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 2.7:)] —middle (chiefly poetry in early writers), imperfect and aorist 2 ἐφάμην, ἔφατο (also [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 437.6 (Delph., 3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” 343.8 (3rd c.BC), “PSI” 4.437.8 (3rd c.BC), 1st c.BC: Parthenius Mythographus 4.5, etc.))], Epic dialect φάτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.262, φάσθε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.200, 10.562, ἔφαντο,)] Epic dialect φάντο [Refs (24.460; _imperative_ φάο 16.168, 18.171)], φάσθω, φάσθ; infinitive φάσθα; participle φάμενος (also [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “Spir. Prooem., Eratosth.Prooem.”, “SIG” 364.83 (Ephesus, 3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” 236.4 (3rd c.BC), “PHamb.” 4.14 (1st c.AD), 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 17.12.2, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.228, etc.): _Doric dialect_)]future φάσομαι [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.43)]:—passive, perfect 3rd.pers. singular πέφαται [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.500)]; 3rd.pers. singular imperative πεφάσθω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 72d)]; but participle πεφασμένος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.127, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 843 should be referred to φαίνω:)]aorist ἐφάθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((ἀπ-, κατ-) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Interpretatione” 18b39. The)]present indicative φημί is enclitic, except in 2nd pers. singular present φῄς: φαμέν is 1st pers. plural present, φάμεν poetry infinitive: φαντί is 3rd.pers. plural, φάντι participle
II φάσκω supplied all moods of present except the indicative, also imperfect ἔφασκο; compare ἠμί. [ᾰ, except in φᾱσι, and in masculine and feminine participle φάς, φᾶσα: in infinitive φάναι ᾰ always; φᾶναι is corrupt in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 119.11 codices 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus])]:—say, affirm, assert, either absolutely, or followed by infinitive, e. g. Λυσίθευς Μικίωνα φιλῖν (={-εῖν}) φησι [Refs (“IG” 12.924)], compare 57.48, or accusative et infinitive; the infinitive is frequently omitted, σὲ κακὸν καὶ ἀνάλκιδα φήσει (i.e. εἶναι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.153)]; also Κορινθίους τί φῶμε; what shall we say of them? [NT+8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.5.12; φ. πρός τινα, πρὸς ξεῖνον φάσθαι ἔπος ἠδ᾽ ἐπακοῦσαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.584: less frequently with _dative_, αὐτοῖς NT.Matt.13.28)]; κατά τινος φ. to speak against him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 25: sometimes followed by ὡς, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.19, variant in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.3.7)]; by ὅτι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 487d, 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 30)]; by an interrogative clause, μή ποτε φάσῃς ὅ τι γίνεται αὔριον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus)] [same place]; by participle, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 481c (perhaps to be read θῶμεν))]; also parenthetic, τίνες, φῄς, ἦσαν οἱ λόγο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 59c.)]
II.b since what one says commonly expresses a belief or opinion, think, deem, suppose, φῆ γὰρ ὅ γ᾽ αἱρήσειν Πριάμου πόλιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.37)]; φαίης κε ζάκοτόν τέ τιν᾽ ἔμμεναι ἄφρονά τε you would say, would think, he was.., [Refs (3.220)]; ἶσον ἐμοὶ φάσθαι to say he is (i. e. fancy himself) equal to me, [Refs (1.187, 15.167)]; μὴ.. φαθὶ λεύσσειν think not that you see, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.56)]; τί φῄ; what say you? i.e. what think you? (see.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (below 11.5); λέγ᾽ ἀνύσας ὅ τι φῄς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 349:)] —so φ. δεῖν, φ. χρῆναι, deem it right, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.34, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.48.)]
II.c say, i.e. write, of an author, ὡς ἔφημεν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.158, etc.)] —The middle has all these senses as well as the active
II Special Phrases:
II.1 φασί, they say, it is said, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.638, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.42, etc.; parenthetically, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1109a35, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 223, etc.: Prose writers use φησί when quoting, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.89, etc.)]; φησίν saith He, [NT (NT.1Cor.6.16)]; especially of an opponent's objection, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.112c; even after a plural, ὅ τοίνυν μέγιστον ἔχειν οἴονται.. καὶ αὐτός, φησί, τῶν εἰσιόντων ἦσθα 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 52.39)]; “τὸν δὲ μετ᾽ εἰσενόησα, ἔφη Ὅμηρος as H. said, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 315b.)]
II.2 joined with a synonymous Verb, ἔφη λέγων, ἔφησε λέγων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.156, 6.137, etc.; ἔλεγε φάς [prev. author] 1.122)]; λέγει οὐδέν, φαμένη.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.22; τί ἐροῦμεν ἢ τί φήσομε; 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.37, compare 25.100; τί φ; τί λέξ; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 483.)]
II.3 in repeating dialogues the Verb commonly goes before its subject, ἔφην ἐγώ, ἔφη ὁ Σωκράτης, said I, said [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, but the order is sometimes inverted, ἐγὼ ἔφην, ὁ Σωκράτης ἔφη,)] I said, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)] said.
II.4 inserted parenthetically, though the sentence has been introduced by λέγει, εἶπεν, etc., ὁ Ἰσχόμαχος.. εἶπεν· ἀλλὰ παίζεις μὲν σύ γε, ἔφη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 17.10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 164e; ἡ κρίσις.. διαρρήδην λέγει διότι, φησίν, ἔδοξε τἀληθῆ εἰσαγγεῖλαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.50.)]
II.5 τί φημ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1471, and τί φῄ; “Ph.” 804, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 706 (uncertain), are used extra metrum, as exclamations.)]
II.6 κυριώτατα φάναι, in parenthesis, strictly speaking, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.374)]; ὡς οὕτω φάναι, ={ὡς εἰπεῖν, ἅπασαι ὡς οὕτω φάναι} practically all, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ λεπτυνούσης διαίτης - CMG” 9)]; συνελόντα (variant{-όντι}) φάναι, ={συνελόντι εἰπεῖν}, [Refs ([prev. author] 16.502.)]
II.7 Οἰδίπουν.. ἂν μόνον φῶ if I only mention Oedipus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 191.6, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 411a, 435a.)]
III like{κατάφημι}, say yes, affirm, assert, καὶ τοὺς φάναι and they said yes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.88; καί φημι κἀπόφημι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 317; ἔγωγέ φημι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 526c; φάναι τε καὶ ἀπαρνεῖσθαι [prev. author] “Tht.” 165a)]: with infinitive, φῂς ἢ καταρνεῖ μὴ δεδρακέναι τάδ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 442)]; but οὔ φημι means say no, deny, refuse, with infinitive, ἡ Πυθίη οὐκ ἔφη χρήσειν said she would not.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.19, compare 8.2; οὐκ ἔφασαν ἐπιτρέψαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.15, 47 (to be read -τρέψειν))]: with accusative et infinitive, οὔ φημ᾽ Ὀρέστην σ᾽ ἐνδίκως ἀνδρηλατεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 221, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.63: _absolutely_, κἂν μὲν μὴ φῇ)] if he says no, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 555 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἢ φάθι ἢ μὴ ἃ ἐρωτῶ answer me yes or no, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 475e)]; so in answers, φημί or οὕτως φημί yes, [Refs ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 270c, +others, “Grg.” 500e)]; οὐκ ἔφη he said no, [Refs ([prev. author] “Phd.” 118a.)] — In this sense _Attic dialect_ writers, besides present, mostly use future φήσω and aorist ἔφησα, but in imperfect, infinitive, and participle present, to avoid ambiguity, they prefer ἔφασκον, φάσκειν, φάσκων (see. φάσκω): φάναι is distinguished from φάσκειν, e.g. ἔφη σπουδάζειν he said he was in haste, ἔφασκε σπουδάζειν he alleged he was in haste; but ἔφησθα is found in this sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.7.)]
IV command, order, ἔφην τῷ Ὀρθοβούλῳ ἐξαλεῖψαί με [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.13 (so ἔφασαν, see l. for ἔφρασαν in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.11).)]
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 316.1 (3rd c.BC), “PSI” 7.846.7 (Papyrus of 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus (?), 2nd-3rd c.AD))], cf. Hdn.Gr.2.147, 419; φησί (apocopation φή [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 40))]; plural φᾰμέν, φᾰτέ, φᾱσ; Doric dialect φᾱμί, φᾱσί or φᾱτί [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 771, Anonymus in “PSI” 9.1091.11, 18))], 3rd.pers. plural φαντ; Aeolic dialect φᾶμι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 32)], 2nd pers. singular φαῖσθα [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 20.6, _3rd.pers._ _sing._ φαῖσι [prev. work]26.5, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 66)], 3rd.pers. plural φαῖσι [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 5.2:)]aorist 2 ἔφην, Epic dialect φῆν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.326; ἔφησθα 1.397, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 132, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 438a, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.164, etc. (rarely ἔφης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.280, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.23))], Epic dialect φῆσθα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.186, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.149 (variant{φῇσθα}), φῆς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.473, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.239 (variant))]; ἔφη, Epic dialect φῆ, Doric dialect φᾶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.11)]; 1st pers. plural ἔφᾰμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.26 (ἔφημεν 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 184.7, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.158, 3rd c.AD(?): Pappus Mathematicus 524.16, 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.341 H.))]; 2nd pers. plural ἔφᾰτε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.25)]; 3rd.pers. plural ἔφασαν, Epic dialect φάσαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.278, also ἔφᾰν, φάν, 3.161, 6.108; _imperative_ φαθί (on the accent see Hdn.Gr. 1.431, +others, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 264.4)]; φάθι is found in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 475e, +others))]; subjunctive φῶ, φῇς, φῇ, Epic dialect φῇσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.168, φήῃ 11.128, 23.275)]; Doric dialect 3rd.pers. plural subjunctive φᾶντι [Refs (“Tab.Heracl.” 1.116)]; optative φαίην, 1st pers. plural φαῖμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.81, 24.222, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 7.87)], 3rd.pers. plural φαῖεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.68, etc.)]; infinitive φάναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27, etc., poetry φάμεν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.19)]; participle φάς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.35, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.63, 141, “SIG” 279.18 (Zeleia, 4th c.BC), φᾶσα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.135, _plural_ φάντες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.44, 14.126, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.139b:)]future φήσω, Doric dialect φασῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 739, etc.)]; 1st pers. plural φασοῦμες [Refs 5th c.AD+ (Diotogenes Philosophus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 4.1.133)]: aorist 1 ἔφησα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus in “PSI” 11.1212.9, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.153, “PCair.Zen.” 19.3 (3rd c.BC) (ἔφασεν is uncertain [prev. work] 140.7))]; Doric dialect 3rd.pers. singular φᾶσε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.66)]; 2nd pers. singular subjunctive (Doric dialect) φάσῃς [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 32 (φήσῃς etc. codices 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes, corr. Bgk.); _optative_ φήσειε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.69, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 503)], participle φήσας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.239)], infinitive φῆσαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 2.7:)] —middle (chiefly poetry in early writers), imperfect and aorist 2 ἐφάμην, ἔφατο (also [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 437.6 (Delph., 3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” 343.8 (3rd c.BC), “PSI” 4.437.8 (3rd c.BC), 1st c.BC: Parthenius Mythographus 4.5, etc.))], Epic dialect φάτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.262, φάσθε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.200, 10.562, ἔφαντο,)] Epic dialect φάντο [Refs (24.460; _imperative_ φάο 16.168, 18.171)], φάσθω, φάσθ; infinitive φάσθα; participle φάμενος (also [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “Spir. Prooem., Eratosth.Prooem.”, “SIG” 364.83 (Ephesus, 3rd c.BC), “PCair.Zen.” 236.4 (3rd c.BC), “PHamb.” 4.14 (1st c.AD), 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 17.12.2, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.228, etc.): _Doric dialect_)]future φάσομαι [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.43)]:—passive, perfect 3rd.pers. singular πέφαται [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.500)]; 3rd.pers. singular imperative πεφάσθω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 72d)]; but participle πεφασμένος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.127, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 843 should be referred to φαίνω:)]aorist ἐφάθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((ἀπ-, κατ-) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Interpretatione” 18b39. The)]present indicative φημί is enclitic, except in 2nd pers. singular present φῄς: φαμέν is 1st pers. plural present, φάμεν poetry infinitive: φαντί is 3rd.pers. plural, φάντι participle
II φάσκω supplied all moods of present except the indicative, also imperfect ἔφασκο; compare ἠμί. [ᾰ, except in φᾱσι, and in masculine and feminine participle φάς, φᾶσα: in infinitive φάναι ᾰ always; φᾶναι is corrupt in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 119.11 codices 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus])]:—say, affirm, assert, either absolutely, or followed by infinitive, e. g. Λυσίθευς Μικίωνα φιλῖν (={-εῖν}) φησι [Refs (“IG” 12.924)], compare 57.48, or accusative et infinitive; the infinitive is frequently omitted, σὲ κακὸν καὶ ἀνάλκιδα φήσει (i.e. εἶναι) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.153)]; also Κορινθίους τί φῶμε; what shall we say of them? [NT+8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.5.12; φ. πρός τινα, πρὸς ξεῖνον φάσθαι ἔπος ἠδ᾽ ἐπακοῦσαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.584: less frequently with _dative_, αὐτοῖς NT.Matt.13.28)]; κατά τινος φ. to speak against him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 25: sometimes followed by ὡς, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.19, variant in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.3.7)]; by ὅτι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 487d, 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 30)]; by an interrogative clause, μή ποτε φάσῃς ὅ τι γίνεται αὔριον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus)] [same place]; by participle, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 481c (perhaps to be read θῶμεν))]; also parenthetic, τίνες, φῄς, ἦσαν οἱ λόγο; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 59c.)]
II.b since what one says commonly expresses a belief or opinion, think, deem, suppose, φῆ γὰρ ὅ γ᾽ αἱρήσειν Πριάμου πόλιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.37)]; φαίης κε ζάκοτόν τέ τιν᾽ ἔμμεναι ἄφρονά τε you would say, would think, he was.., [Refs (3.220)]; ἶσον ἐμοὶ φάσθαι to say he is (i. e. fancy himself) equal to me, [Refs (1.187, 15.167)]; μὴ.. φαθὶ λεύσσειν think not that you see, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.56)]; τί φῄ; what say you? i.e. what think you? (see.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (below 11.5); λέγ᾽ ἀνύσας ὅ τι φῄς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 349:)] —so φ. δεῖν, φ. χρῆναι, deem it right, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.34, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.48.)]
II.c say, i.e. write, of an author, ὡς ἔφημεν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.158, etc.)] —The middle has all these senses as well as the active
II Special Phrases:
II.1 φασί, they say, it is said, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.638, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.42, etc.; parenthetically, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1109a35, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 223, etc.: Prose writers use φησί when quoting, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.89, etc.)]; φησίν saith He, [NT (NT.1Cor.6.16)]; especially of an opponent's objection, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.112c; even after a plural, ὅ τοίνυν μέγιστον ἔχειν οἴονται.. καὶ αὐτός, φησί, τῶν εἰσιόντων ἦσθα 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 52.39)]; “τὸν δὲ μετ᾽ εἰσενόησα, ἔφη Ὅμηρος as H. said, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 315b.)]
II.2 joined with a synonymous Verb, ἔφη λέγων, ἔφησε λέγων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.156, 6.137, etc.; ἔλεγε φάς [prev. author] 1.122)]; λέγει οὐδέν, φαμένη.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.22; τί ἐροῦμεν ἢ τί φήσομε; 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.37, compare 25.100; τί φ; τί λέξ; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 483.)]
II.3 in repeating dialogues the Verb commonly goes before its subject, ἔφην ἐγώ, ἔφη ὁ Σωκράτης, said I, said [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, but the order is sometimes inverted, ἐγὼ ἔφην, ὁ Σωκράτης ἔφη,)] I said, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)] said.
II.4 inserted parenthetically, though the sentence has been introduced by λέγει, εἶπεν, etc., ὁ Ἰσχόμαχος.. εἶπεν· ἀλλὰ παίζεις μὲν σύ γε, ἔφη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 17.10, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 164e; ἡ κρίσις.. διαρρήδην λέγει διότι, φησίν, ἔδοξε τἀληθῆ εἰσαγγεῖλαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.50.)]
II.5 τί φημ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1471, and τί φῄ; “Ph.” 804, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 706 (uncertain), are used extra metrum, as exclamations.)]
II.6 κυριώτατα φάναι, in parenthesis, strictly speaking, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.374)]; ὡς οὕτω φάναι, ={ὡς εἰπεῖν, ἅπασαι ὡς οὕτω φάναι} practically all, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “περὶ λεπτυνούσης διαίτης - CMG” 9)]; συνελόντα (variant{-όντι}) φάναι, ={συνελόντι εἰπεῖν}, [Refs ([prev. author] 16.502.)]
II.7 Οἰδίπουν.. ἂν μόνον φῶ if I only mention Oedipus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 191.6, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 411a, 435a.)]
III like{κατάφημι}, say yes, affirm, assert, καὶ τοὺς φάναι and they said yes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.88; καί φημι κἀπόφημι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 317; ἔγωγέ φημι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 526c; φάναι τε καὶ ἀπαρνεῖσθαι [prev. author] “Tht.” 165a)]: with infinitive, φῂς ἢ καταρνεῖ μὴ δεδρακέναι τάδ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 442)]; but οὔ φημι means say no, deny, refuse, with infinitive, ἡ Πυθίη οὐκ ἔφη χρήσειν said she would not.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.19, compare 8.2; οὐκ ἔφασαν ἐπιτρέψαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.15, 47 (to be read -τρέψειν))]: with accusative et infinitive, οὔ φημ᾽ Ὀρέστην σ᾽ ἐνδίκως ἀνδρηλατεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 221, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.63: _absolutely_, κἂν μὲν μὴ φῇ)] if he says no, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 555 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἢ φάθι ἢ μὴ ἃ ἐρωτῶ answer me yes or no, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 475e)]; so in answers, φημί or οὕτως φημί yes, [Refs ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 270c, +others, “Grg.” 500e)]; οὐκ ἔφη he said no, [Refs ([prev. author] “Phd.” 118a.)] — In this sense _Attic dialect_ writers, besides present, mostly use future φήσω and aorist ἔφησα, but in imperfect, infinitive, and participle present, to avoid ambiguity, they prefer ἔφασκον, φάσκειν, φάσκων (see. φάσκω): φάναι is distinguished from φάσκειν, e.g. ἔφη σπουδάζειν he said he was in haste, ἔφασκε σπουδάζειν he alleged he was in haste; but ἔφησθα is found in this sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.7.)]
IV command, order, ἔφην τῷ Ὀρθοβούλῳ ἐξαλεῖψαί με [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.13 (so ἔφασαν, see l. for ἔφρασαν in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.11).)]