γίνεσθε (ginesthe)

γίνεσθε is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 2nd person plural present middle/passive imperative.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica 32.8: Ἀργείου δέ τινος λέγοντος, ὡς φαυλότεροι γίνονται κατὰ τὰς ἀποδημίας οἱ Λάκωνες ἐξιστάμενοι τῶν πατρίων νόμων, ἀλλʼ οὐχ ὑμεῖς γε ἔφη εἰς τὴν Σπάρτην ἐλθόντες χείρονες ἀλλὰ βελτίονες γίνεσθε.

New Testament, Luke 6.36: Γίνεσθε οἰκτίρμονες καθὼς ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν οἰκτίρμων ἐστίν·

All forms of γίγνομαι (conjugation 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.