Strong G5585ψηφίζω
to calculate
- Transliteration
- psēphizō
- Pronunciation
- psay-fid'-zo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G5586; to use pebbles in enumeration that is (genitive case) to compute: - count.
Detailed definition
ψηφίζω
(ψῆφος), [in LXX: 3Ki.3:8 8:5 A (סָפַר ni..) *;]
to count (prop., with pebbles), reckon, calculate: τ. δαπάνην, Luk.14:28; τ. ἀριθμόν (i.e. calculate the number's meaning), Rev.13:18 (in cl. chiefly mid., to vote by casting a pebble; cf. συγ-κατα-, συμ-φηφίζω).†
(AS)
(ψῆφος), [in LXX: 3Ki.3:8 8:5 A (סָפַר ni..) *;]
to count (prop., with pebbles), reckon, calculate: τ. δαπάνην, Luk.14:28; τ. ἀριθμόν (i.e. calculate the number's meaning), Rev.13:18 (in cl. chiefly mid., to vote by casting a pebble; cf. συγ-κατα-, συμ-φηφίζω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5585 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- count1
- counteth1
First verses
- Luke 14:28For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
- Revelation 13:18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ψηφ-ίζω,
future Attic dialect -ιῶ (ἐπι-) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.84)]: aorist ἐψήφισα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.141c, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.24:)]perfect ἐψήφικα (ἐπ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.35, (κατ-) 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.8)]:— middle, see below [Refs (11)]:—passive, see below [Refs (111)]:—count, reckon, properly with pebbles (ψῆφοι), [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.26.13, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.168 (1st c.AD: Antiphanes Macedo Epigrammaticus), 171 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus))]; ψ. δακτύλοις Plu. [prev. cited]
2 ἐὰν ψηφίσῃς τὸ ἓν ἐν γράμμασιν, i.e. if you add up the numerical values of the letters in the word ἕν, [Refs (“Theologumena Arithmeticae” 64.)]
II more frequently in middle ψηφίζομαι: future Attic dialect ψηφιοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 769, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.48, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 177d, etc. (ψηφίσομαι)] is falsa lectio where found, e.g. in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.44, 14.47, (κατα-) 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.12, 6.10, (ἀπο-) [prev. passage]): _aorist_ ἐψηφισάμην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.97, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.48, etc.: _perfect_ ἐψήφισμαι)] in middle sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 591 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, etc.)]:—properly, cast one's vote with a pebble:
II.1 absolutely, εἰς ὑδρίαν ψ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.7.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 755 (_anapaest meter_))]: generally, vote, ψήφῳ ψηφίζεσθαι μὴ φεύγειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.55)]; τοῖς νόμοις ψηφίσασθαι vote in support of the laws, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.188; ἐναντία ψ. τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 177d.)]
II.2 with accusative, vote for, carry by vote, τὸν πόλεμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.86)]; ψηφίσασθαί τινι τὸν πλοῦν vote him the voyage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.29; ψ. παρασκευήν [prev. author] 6.25, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 951; ἐπιβολὴν ψ. [prev. author] “V.” 769; δίκην 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.7; ἄδειαν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.12; διαδίκασμα ψ. τινι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 17.10)]; κλῆρόν τινι ψ. to adjudge it to.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.6: with double _accusative_, ψ. τινα θεόν)] vote him a god, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.187e.)]
II.3 with infinitive, vote, resolve to do something, with infinitive present, ψ. μένειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.207, compare 9.55 (above quoted))]; ψ. τι δρᾶν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1353)]: with infinitive aorist, ψ. νέας ἀποστεῖλαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.97, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 591 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 516e: with)]infinitive future, ψ. πάντας ἀποσφάξειν (better ἀποσφάξαι as codex P) [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.72)]: with accusative et infinitive, vote that.., ψ. τὰς σπονδὰς λελύσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.88; ψ. ὥστε μὴ ἴσων ἕκαστον τυγχάνειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.20: ψ. ὅπως τις ἄρχοι μόνος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 54.)]
II.4 ψ. περί, ὑπέρ τινος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Demodocus” 382d, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.154.)]
III active is used in signification decide by vote, δίκην κατ᾽ ἄλλου.. ἐψήφισαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 449)], and is also found in [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IGRom.” 4.293a ii 57 (Pergam., 2nd c.BC))]; ψηφίζομεν is uncertain in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.3.4 (ἐπευφημίζομεν Schwartz):)] —passive, aorist ψηφισθῆναι be voted, τοῖς στρατηγοῖς εἴ του προσδέοιντο ψηφισθῆναι ἐς τὸν ἔκπλουν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.8; τὸ ψήφισμα ἐψηφίσθη 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.29; τὰ ψηφισθέντα πλοῖα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.2.1)]: future, τὰ ψηφισθησόμενα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.92)]: perfect, ἐψηφισμένοι θανεῖν condemned by vote, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 141; τοῖς ἰχθυοπώλαις ἐστὶν ἐψηφισμένον.. στῆσαι 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 56.)]
future Attic dialect -ιῶ (ἐπι-) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.84)]: aorist ἐψήφισα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.141c, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.24:)]perfect ἐψήφικα (ἐπ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.35, (κατ-) 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.8)]:— middle, see below [Refs (11)]:—passive, see below [Refs (111)]:—count, reckon, properly with pebbles (ψῆφοι), [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.26.13, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.168 (1st c.AD: Antiphanes Macedo Epigrammaticus), 171 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus))]; ψ. δακτύλοις Plu. [prev. cited]
2 ἐὰν ψηφίσῃς τὸ ἓν ἐν γράμμασιν, i.e. if you add up the numerical values of the letters in the word ἕν, [Refs (“Theologumena Arithmeticae” 64.)]
II more frequently in middle ψηφίζομαι: future Attic dialect ψηφιοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 769, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.48, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 177d, etc. (ψηφίσομαι)] is falsa lectio where found, e.g. in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.44, 14.47, (κατα-) 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.12, 6.10, (ἀπο-) [prev. passage]): _aorist_ ἐψηφισάμην 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.97, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.48, etc.: _perfect_ ἐψήφισμαι)] in middle sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 591 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, etc.)]:—properly, cast one's vote with a pebble:
II.1 absolutely, εἰς ὑδρίαν ψ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.7.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 755 (_anapaest meter_))]: generally, vote, ψήφῳ ψηφίζεσθαι μὴ φεύγειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.55)]; τοῖς νόμοις ψηφίσασθαι vote in support of the laws, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.188; ἐναντία ψ. τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 177d.)]
II.2 with accusative, vote for, carry by vote, τὸν πόλεμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.86)]; ψηφίσασθαί τινι τὸν πλοῦν vote him the voyage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.29; ψ. παρασκευήν [prev. author] 6.25, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 951; ἐπιβολὴν ψ. [prev. author] “V.” 769; δίκην 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 3.7; ἄδειαν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.12; διαδίκασμα ψ. τινι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 17.10)]; κλῆρόν τινι ψ. to adjudge it to.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 43.6: with double _accusative_, ψ. τινα θεόν)] vote him a god, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.187e.)]
II.3 with infinitive, vote, resolve to do something, with infinitive present, ψ. μένειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.207, compare 9.55 (above quoted))]; ψ. τι δρᾶν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1353)]: with infinitive aorist, ψ. νέας ἀποστεῖλαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.97, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 591 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 516e: with)]infinitive future, ψ. πάντας ἀποσφάξειν (better ἀποσφάξαι as codex P) [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 12.72)]: with accusative et infinitive, vote that.., ψ. τὰς σπονδὰς λελύσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.88; ψ. ὥστε μὴ ἴσων ἕκαστον τυγχάνειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.20: ψ. ὅπως τις ἄρχοι μόνος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 54.)]
II.4 ψ. περί, ὑπέρ τινος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Demodocus” 382d, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.154.)]
III active is used in signification decide by vote, δίκην κατ᾽ ἄλλου.. ἐψήφισαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 449)], and is also found in [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IGRom.” 4.293a ii 57 (Pergam., 2nd c.BC))]; ψηφίζομεν is uncertain in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.3.4 (ἐπευφημίζομεν Schwartz):)] —passive, aorist ψηφισθῆναι be voted, τοῖς στρατηγοῖς εἴ του προσδέοιντο ψηφισθῆναι ἐς τὸν ἔκπλουν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.8; τὸ ψήφισμα ἐψηφίσθη 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.29; τὰ ψηφισθέντα πλοῖα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.2.1)]: future, τὰ ψηφισθησόμενα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.92)]: perfect, ἐψηφισμένοι θανεῖν condemned by vote, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 141; τοῖς ἰχθυοπώλαις ἐστὶν ἐψηφισμένον.. στῆσαι 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 56.)]