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verb

Greekὠνέομαι (ōneomai)
Biblang

ōnomō

Strong’sG5608

I buy, purchase

stem ōn-once in the New Testament1 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* ὠνέομαι, -οῦμαι

to buy: ὠνήσατο (= cl. ἐπρίατο; v. Rutherford, NPhr., 210 ff.; Veitch, s.v.), c. gen. pret., Ac 7:16.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5608 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saido-neh'-om-ahee

to purchase (synonymous with the earlier G4092)

Frommiddle voice from an apparently primary ὦνος (a sum or price);

King Jamesbuy.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
ὠνέομαι,
Refs: future -ήσομαι Refs 5th c.BC+:—in Attic dialect usually with the syllabic augment, ἐωνούμην Refs 5th c.BC+: aorist 1 ἐωνησάμην Refs 5th c.BC+; participle ὠνησάμενος Refs 2nd c.BC+ not in Attic inscriptions earlier than Refs 1st c.BC+ being used in Attic dialect; ὠνησάμην in the proverbial Χῖος δεσπότην ὠνήσατο Refs 5th c.BC+perfect ἐώνημαι in active sense, Refs 5th c.BC+ (so pluperfect ἐώνητο Refs 4th c.BC+; also as passive (see. below 11): aorist in passive sense (see. below 11) ἐωνήθη; future in passive sense ἀπ-ωνηθήσεται Refs 5th c.BC+:—buy, purchase, opposed to πωλέω, πιπράσκ; πῶ τις ὦν ὄνον ὠνασεῖτα; Refs 5th c.BC+; 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+; ὠνέεσθαι τῶν φορτίων wished to buy some of their wares, began to bargain for them, Refs 5th c.BC+; Κροῖσός σφι ὠνεομένοισι ἔδωκε gave it them when they offered to buy, Refs; ὀκτὼ λάβοις ἄν (i.e. ὀβολούς); Answ. εἴπερ ὠνεῖ τὸν ἕτερον if you are willing to buy the other fish, Refs 5th c.BC+: with dative person, buy from.., Refs 5th c.BC+; also ὠ. ἐκ Κορίνθου buy goods from Corinth, Refs 5th c.BC+; metaphorically, καιρόν, σπονδάς ὠ., Refs 4th c.BC+; with genitive pretii, buy for so much, Refs 5th c.BC+; ψυχῆς at the price of life, Refs 1st c.AD+: also with dative, buy with.., τἄχθιστα τοῖσι φιλτάτοις ὠνούμεθα Refs 5th c.BC+by purchase, Refs; also ὁ ὠνούμενος the buyer, purchaser, ὁρῶντος τοῦ ὠνουμένου Refs 1st c.AD+; ὁ ἐωνημένος the owner by purchase (of a slave), Refs 5th c.BC+; ὁ ὠνησόμενος the intending purchaser, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 bid for, purchase the farming of public taxes or properties, λ ταλάντων Refs 5th c.BC+; τέλη παρὰ τῆς πόλεως Refs 5th c.BC+
3 buy off, avert by giving hush-money, ὠ. τὸν κίνδυνον Refs 4th c.BC+; τὰ ἐγκλήματα Refs; ταλάντου τὸ πλημμέλημα (i.e. its penalty) παρά τινος Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 ὠ. τινα to buy a person, of one who bribes, Refs 4th c.BC+
II sometimes used as passive, uncertain in present since [ὠνούμενά τε καὶ πιπρασκόμενα] is interpolated in Refs 5th c.BC+; occasionally in perfect, participle ἐωνημένος Refs 4th c.BC+ (but indicative ἐώνηνται Refs 4th c.BC+: pluperfect ἐώνητο Refs 5th c.BC+; also in aorist ἐωνήθην Refs 5th c.BC+; participle ὠνηθείς Refs 5th c.BC+
III active perfect participle ἐωνηκώς, ={ἐωνημένος}, Refs 5th c.BC+aorist ὠνῆσαι· ἀγοράσαι, Refspresent ὠνεῖν· πωλεῖν, ἀπολαύειν, Refs 5th c.AD+ they shall sell the property, Refs; 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+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

bought1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.

Form and the Greek behind itWhat it isUsuallyTimes
ōnetaὠνήσατοhappened · he/she/itaorist middle indicative 3rd person singularbought1×

Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.

Every form the system can build — all 86, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses
Statements — indicative mood, 1 occurrence

acts on itself, or is acted on middle or passive voice

Who personhappening now presentwas happening imperfecthas happened perfecthad happened pluperfect
I 1st person singularōnomōōnomeōnomēōnomelē
you 2nd person singularōnosōōnoseōnosēōnoselē
he/she/it 3rd person singularōnotōōnoteōnotēōnotelē
we 1st person pluralōnonōōnoneōnonēōnonelē
ye 2nd person pluralōnovōōnoveōnovēōnovelē
they 3rd person pluralōnolōōnoleōnolēōnolelē

acts on or for itself middle voice

Who personwill happen futurehappened aorist
I 1st person singularōnemiōnema
you 2nd person singularōnesiōnesa
he/she/it 3rd person singularōnetiōneta1×ὠνήσατο
we 1st person pluralōneniōnena
ye 2nd person pluralōneviōneva
they 3rd person pluralōneliōnela
May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences

acts on itself, or is acted on middle or passive voice

Who personhappening now presenthas happened perfect
I 1st person singularōnomeiōōnomeiē
you 2nd person singularōnoseiōōnoseiē
he/she/it 3rd person singularōnoteiōōnoteiē
we 1st person pluralōnoneiōōnoneiē
ye 2nd person pluralōnoveiōōnoveiē
they 3rd person pluralōnoleiōōnoleiē

acts on or for itself middle voice

Who personhappened aorist
I 1st person singularōnemeia
you 2nd person singularōneseia
he/she/it 3rd person singularōneteia
we 1st person pluralōneneia
ye 2nd person pluralōneveia
they 3rd person pluralōneleia
Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences

acts on itself, or is acted on middle or passive voice

Who personhappening now presenthas happened perfect
you 2nd person singularōnosōrōnosēr
he/she/it 3rd person singularōnotōrōnotēr
ye 2nd person pluralōnovōrōnovēr
they 3rd person pluralōnolōrōnolēr

acts on or for itself middle voice

Who personhappened aorist
you 2nd person singularōnesar
he/she/it 3rd person singularōnetar
ye 2nd person pluralōnevar
they 3rd person pluralōnelar
Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences

acts on itself, or is acted on middle or passive voice

Who personhappening now present
I 1st person singularōnomoiō
you 2nd person singularōnosoiō
he/she/it 3rd person singularōnotoiō
we 1st person pluralōnonoiō
ye 2nd person pluralōnovoiō
they 3rd person pluralōnoloiō

acts on or for itself middle voice

Who personhappened aorist
I 1st person singularōnemoia
you 2nd person singularōnesoia
he/she/it 3rd person singularōnetoia
we 1st person pluralōnenoia
ye 2nd person pluralōnevoia
they 3rd person pluralōneloia
The “to …” form — infinitive, no occurrences
Who is acting voicehappening now presentwill happen futurehappened aoristhas happened perfect
acts on itself, or is acted on middle or passive voiceōnorōōnorē
acts on or for itself middle voiceōneriōnera
Used as an adjective — participle, no occurrences
Who is acting voicehappening now presentwill happen futurehappened aoristhas happened perfect
acts on itself, or is acted on middle or passive voiceōnorōntosōnorēntos
acts on or for itself middle voiceōnerintosōnerantos

Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.

How every form is built — the slots that make them
ōnstem+aoeiwho is acting voice+mstnvl—who person+—eiroistatement, command, wish mood+ōeiaēelēwhen tense+—ntthen it declines+—ogender+—sits job in the sentence case

ōn is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ōneta“bought”happened · he/she/itaorist middle indicative 3rd person singular1×

Acts 7:16… kai tithila en te mnēme he ōneta Abraam timau argurieu para toiu huioiu …… in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at …