ἵνα
See also: -ινα and -ίνα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ῐ̔́ν’ (hín’) – apocopic
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hí.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)i.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈi.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈi.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.na/
Conjunction
ῐ̔́νᾰ • (hína)
- Subordinating conjunction
- final, introducing a subordinate clause expressing a purpose: in order that, so that, so
- introducing a clause of effort, indicating what someone is trying to accomplish: that
- (usually poetic) where
Descendants
- Greek: να (na)
References
- “ἵνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἵνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἵνα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἵνα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἵνα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἵνα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2443 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- master idem, page 517.
- order idem, page 578.
- short idem, page 768.
- that idem, page 863.
- where idem, page 975.
- whither idem, page 977.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part IV: Syntax”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 2193, 2209, 2498