Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /isxýo/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /isxýo/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /isxío/

Verb

ἰσχύω • ‎(iskhúō)

1. to be physically strong
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 234
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.1.24
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 502
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.7.7
   • 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, On the Murder of Herodes 93
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 357
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.4.18
2. to be strong, mighty, powerful, to prevail
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 510
   • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 1188
   • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1607
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Psalms 12.4
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Maccabees 10.49
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 903
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.46
   • 349 BCE, Demosthenes, Second Olynthiac 9
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.143
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.13
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.47
   • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 2
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes 20
   1. (not of persons) to prevail
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 621
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 356
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Pantaenetus 59
      • 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 241
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristogiton 1 71
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1280.A.28
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Accession of Alexander 9
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Chronicles 2.6
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pompey 58
      • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 14.2.28
      • New Testament, The Gospel of Mark 5.4
      • 40 CE – 115 CE, Dio Chrysostom, Collected Works 33.22
3. to be worth
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 14.7.1
   • 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos 134
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.26.13

Inflection

References

• ἰσχύω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἰσχύω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἰσχύω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἰσχύω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2480”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979