Strong G5608ὠνέομαι
to buy
- Transliteration
- ōneomai
- Pronunciation
- o-neh'-om-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Middle voice from an apparently primary word ὦνος ōnos (a sum or price); to purchase (synonymous with the earlier G4092): - buy.
Detailed definition
ὠνέομαι, -οῦραι
to buy: ὠνήσατο (= cl. ἐπρίατο; see Rutherford, NPhr., 210 ff.; Veitch, see word), with genitive pret., Act.7:16.†
(AS)
to buy: ὠνήσατο (= cl. ἐπρίατο; see Rutherford, NPhr., 210 ff.; Veitch, see word), with genitive pret., Act.7:16.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5608 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- buy1
First verses
- Acts 7:16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
ὠνέομαι,
[Refs (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 341, etc.)]: future -ήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 360, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 815, “Pax” 1261, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 22.22, _Doric dialect_ ὠνασοῦμαι (see. below))]:—in Attic dialect usually with the syllabic augment, ἐωνούμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 184, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.134, ἀντ-εωνεῖτο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.26, etc.: but ὠνέετο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.139, ὠνέοντο [prev. author] 1.69, ὠνούμην 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.4 codices, ἀντ-ωνεῖτο 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.134, ἐξ-ωνεῖτο 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.91)]: aorist 1 ἐωνησάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 3; ὠνησάμην 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 17, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Nicias” 10, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 81)]; participle ὠνησάμενος [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.50.3, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.20: ὠνήσασθαι)] not in Attic inscriptions earlier than [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“IG” 22.1035.8 (1st c.BC), ἐπριάμην)] being used in Attic dialect; ὠνησάμην in the proverbial Χῖος δεσπότην ὠνήσατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 269:)]perfect ἐώνημαι in active sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 7, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.2)] (so pluperfect ἐώνητο [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.5))]; also as passive (see. below 11): aorist in passive sense (see. below 11) ἐωνήθη; future in passive sense ἀπ-ωνηθήσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 84: this verb is usually replaced in later Gr. by ἀγοράζω)]:—buy, purchase, opposed to πωλέω, πιπράσκ; πῶ τις ὦν ὄνον ὠνασεῖτα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 125)]; but in present and imperfect (which are the tenses most in use), offer to buy, bargain or bid for a thing, ὄφρ᾽ ἄλλων ὠνῇ κλῆρον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 341)]; ὠνέεσθαι τῶν φορτίων wished to buy some of their wares, began to bargain for them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1)]; Κροῖσός σφι ὠνεομένοισι ἔδωκε gave it them when they offered to buy, [Refs ([prev. work] 69; τὰς νήσους οὐκ ἐβούλοντο ὠνευμένοισι πωλέειν [prev. work] 165, compare 3.139, 6.121)]; ὀκτὼ λάβοις ἄν (i.e. ὀβολούς); Answ. εἴπερ ὠνεῖ τὸν ἕτερον if you are willing to buy the other fish, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 16.10, compare 78.7; ὠνεῖσθαι καὶ πωλεῖν πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 741b; ὠ. τὰς γυναῖκας παρὰ τῶν γονέων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.6, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313d, 313e, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.48; ἀπό τινος 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 5.17)]: with dative person, buy from.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 815, “Pax” 1261)]; also ὠ. ἐκ Κορίνθου buy goods from Corinth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.17: ὠ. ἐξ ἀγορᾶς [prev. author] “An.” 3.2.21)]; metaphorically, καιρόν, σπονδάς ὠ., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sertorius” 6, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 6.7.9; ὠ. μὴ ἀδικεῖσθαι τοὺς ἐμπόρους 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.25)]; with genitive pretii, buy for so much, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.6, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 360, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.24)]; ψυχῆς at the price of life, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 85)]: also with dative, buy with.., τἄχθιστα τοῖσι φιλτάτοις ὠνούμεθα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1170: _absolutely_, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.10.4, “Ages.” 1.18: especially in participle, ὠνουμένους ἕξειν τὰ ἐπιτήδεια)]by purchase, [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 2.3.27, compare 5.5.14, etc.)]; also ὁ ὠνούμενος the buyer, purchaser, ὁρῶντος τοῦ ὠνουμένου [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Eq.” 3.2, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 36)]; ὁ ἐωνημένος the owner by purchase (of a slave), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 7; ὁ ὠνησάμενος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.242d)]; ὁ ὠνησόμενος the intending purchaser, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 3.10: _metaphorically_, χάριτας πονηρὰς ὠ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 902; ὅσα ἄνθρωποι ἄθλων ὠνοῦνται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 9.11; εὔνοιαν παρά τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.20; ὠ. τὰς αὑτῶν ψυχὰς παρὰ τῶν ἐχθρῶν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 28.9:—in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 337 Robortello restored ὄνοιτο.)]
2 bid for, purchase the farming of public taxes or properties, λ ταλάντων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.134, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.2 (in _participle_ _perfect_ _passive_ with _transitive_ sense))]; τέλη παρὰ τῆς πόλεως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.19, etc.; ὠ. μέταλλα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.293; τὸν ἐωνημένον τὴν ἰλὺν ἐκκομίσασθαι “IG” 12.94.20, compare ὠνή 11.)]
3 buy off, avert by giving hush-money, ὠ. τὸν κίνδυνον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.20)]; τὰ ἐγκλήματα [Refs ([prev. work]8)]; ταλάντου τὸ πλημμέλημα (i.e. its penalty) παρά τινος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 81.)]
4 ὠ. τινα to buy a person, of one who bribes, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.247; ὠνεῖται καὶ διαφθείρει τινάς [prev. author] 9.45, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 15.)]
II sometimes used as passive, uncertain in present since [ὠνούμενά τε καὶ πιπρασκόμενα] is interpolated in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 69b)]; occasionally in perfect, participle ἐωνημένος [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 563b, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 11.42, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.209)] (but indicative ἐώνηνται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Anonymus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1410a19 is _active_ in sense))]: pluperfect ἐώνητο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1182 (troch.))]; also in aorist ἐωνήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.7.12, ὠνηθῇ [prev. author] “Vect.” 4.19)]; participle ὠνηθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 224a, “Lg.” 850a.)]
III active perfect participle ἐωνηκώς, ={ἐωνημένος}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 135S.:)]aorist ὠνῆσαι· ἀγοράσαι, [Refs (12th c.AD: Zonaras Legal icographus:)]present ὠνεῖν· πωλεῖν, ἀπολαύειν, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus: the sense πωλεῖν is Cretan, ὠνῆν τὰ χρήματα)] they shall sell the property, [Refs (“Leg.Gort.” 5.47)]; αἰ δέ τις.. τὸ νόμισμα μὴ λείοι δέκετθαι ἢ καρπῶ ὠνίοι if any one refuses the currency or sells for produce, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 525.8 (Crete, 3rd c.BC).)]
[Refs (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 341, etc.)]: future -ήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 360, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 815, “Pax” 1261, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 22.22, _Doric dialect_ ὠνασοῦμαι (see. below))]:—in Attic dialect usually with the syllabic augment, ἐωνούμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 184, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.134, ἀντ-εωνεῖτο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 20.26, etc.: but ὠνέετο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.139, ὠνέοντο [prev. author] 1.69, ὠνούμην 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.4 codices, ἀντ-ωνεῖτο 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.134, ἐξ-ωνεῖτο 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.91)]: aorist 1 ἐωνησάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 3; ὠνησάμην 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 17, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Nicias” 10, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 81)]; participle ὠνησάμενος [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.50.3, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.20: ὠνήσασθαι)] not in Attic inscriptions earlier than [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“IG” 22.1035.8 (1st c.BC), ἐπριάμην)] being used in Attic dialect; ὠνησάμην in the proverbial Χῖος δεσπότην ὠνήσατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 269:)]perfect ἐώνημαι in active sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 7, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.2)] (so pluperfect ἐώνητο [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 37.5))]; also as passive (see. below 11): aorist in passive sense (see. below 11) ἐωνήθη; future in passive sense ἀπ-ωνηθήσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 84: this verb is usually replaced in later Gr. by ἀγοράζω)]:—buy, purchase, opposed to πωλέω, πιπράσκ; πῶ τις ὦν ὄνον ὠνασεῖτα; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 125)]; but in present and imperfect (which are the tenses most in use), offer to buy, bargain or bid for a thing, ὄφρ᾽ ἄλλων ὠνῇ κλῆρον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 341)]; ὠνέεσθαι τῶν φορτίων wished to buy some of their wares, began to bargain for them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1)]; Κροῖσός σφι ὠνεομένοισι ἔδωκε gave it them when they offered to buy, [Refs ([prev. work] 69; τὰς νήσους οὐκ ἐβούλοντο ὠνευμένοισι πωλέειν [prev. work] 165, compare 3.139, 6.121)]; ὀκτὼ λάβοις ἄν (i.e. ὀβολούς); Answ. εἴπερ ὠνεῖ τὸν ἕτερον if you are willing to buy the other fish, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 16.10, compare 78.7; ὠνεῖσθαι καὶ πωλεῖν πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 741b; ὠ. τὰς γυναῖκας παρὰ τῶν γονέων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.6, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313d, 313e, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.48; ἀπό τινος 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 5.17)]: with dative person, buy from.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 815, “Pax” 1261)]; also ὠ. ἐκ Κορίνθου buy goods from Corinth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.17: ὠ. ἐξ ἀγορᾶς [prev. author] “An.” 3.2.21)]; metaphorically, καιρόν, σπονδάς ὠ., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sertorius” 6, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 6.7.9; ὠ. μὴ ἀδικεῖσθαι τοὺς ἐμπόρους 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.25)]; with genitive pretii, buy for so much, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.6, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 360, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.24)]; ψυχῆς at the price of life, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 85)]: also with dative, buy with.., τἄχθιστα τοῖσι φιλτάτοις ὠνούμεθα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1170: _absolutely_, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.10.4, “Ages.” 1.18: especially in participle, ὠνουμένους ἕξειν τὰ ἐπιτήδεια)]by purchase, [Refs ([prev. author] “An.” 2.3.27, compare 5.5.14, etc.)]; also ὁ ὠνούμενος the buyer, purchaser, ὁρῶντος τοῦ ὠνουμένου [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Eq.” 3.2, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 36)]; ὁ ἐωνημένος the owner by purchase (of a slave), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 7; ὁ ὠνησάμενος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.242d)]; ὁ ὠνησόμενος the intending purchaser, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 3.10: _metaphorically_, χάριτας πονηρὰς ὠ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 902; ὅσα ἄνθρωποι ἄθλων ὠνοῦνται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 9.11; εὔνοιαν παρά τινος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.20; ὠ. τὰς αὑτῶν ψυχὰς παρὰ τῶν ἐχθρῶν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 28.9:—in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 337 Robortello restored ὄνοιτο.)]
2 bid for, purchase the farming of public taxes or properties, λ ταλάντων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.134, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.2 (in _participle_ _perfect_ _passive_ with _transitive_ sense))]; τέλη παρὰ τῆς πόλεως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.19, etc.; ὠ. μέταλλα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.293; τὸν ἐωνημένον τὴν ἰλὺν ἐκκομίσασθαι “IG” 12.94.20, compare ὠνή 11.)]
3 buy off, avert by giving hush-money, ὠ. τὸν κίνδυνον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 38.20)]; τὰ ἐγκλήματα [Refs ([prev. work]8)]; ταλάντου τὸ πλημμέλημα (i.e. its penalty) παρά τινος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 81.)]
4 ὠ. τινα to buy a person, of one who bribes, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.247; ὠνεῖται καὶ διαφθείρει τινάς [prev. author] 9.45, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 15.)]
II sometimes used as passive, uncertain in present since [ὠνούμενά τε καὶ πιπρασκόμενα] is interpolated in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 69b)]; occasionally in perfect, participle ἐωνημένος [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 563b, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 11.42, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.209)] (but indicative ἐώνηνται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Anonymus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1410a19 is _active_ in sense))]: pluperfect ἐώνητο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1182 (troch.))]; also in aorist ἐωνήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.7.12, ὠνηθῇ [prev. author] “Vect.” 4.19)]; participle ὠνηθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 224a, “Lg.” 850a.)]
III active perfect participle ἐωνηκώς, ={ἐωνημένος}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 135S.:)]aorist ὠνῆσαι· ἀγοράσαι, [Refs (12th c.AD: Zonaras Legal icographus:)]present ὠνεῖν· πωλεῖν, ἀπολαύειν, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus: the sense πωλεῖν is Cretan, ὠνῆν τὰ χρήματα)] they shall sell the property, [Refs (“Leg.Gort.” 5.47)]; αἰ δέ τις.. τὸ νόμισμα μὴ λείοι δέκετθαι ἢ καρπῶ ὠνίοι if any one refuses the currency or sells for produce, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“SIG” 525.8 (Crete, 3rd c.BC).)]