βέβαιοι (bebaioi)

βέβαιοι is an Ancient Greek form of βέβαιος, meaning “firm, steady, reliable”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of βεβαιόω, “confirm, make firm, establish”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.12.1: … δεδιότες ἐθεράπευον, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἐκείνους ἐν τῇ ἡσυχίᾳ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐποιοῦμεν· ὅ τε τοῖς ἄλλοις μάλιστα εὔνοια πίστιν βεβαιοῖ, ἡμῖν τοῦτο ὁ φόβος ἐχυρὸν παρεῖχε, δέει τε τὸ πλέον ἢ φιλίᾳ κατεχόμενοι ξύμμαχοι ἦμεν· καὶ ὁποτέροις θᾶσσον …

Aesop, Fables 309: … ὕρηκα ἔλεγες, οὐχ εὑρήκαμεν.“ Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, ὅτι οἱ μὴ μεταλαμβάνοντες τῶν εὐτυχημάτων οὐδʼ ἐν ταῖς συμφοραῖς βέβαιοί εἰσι φίλοι.

All forms of βέβαιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.