γινώσκειν (ginoskein)

γινώσκειν is an Ancient Greek form of γιγνώσκω, meaning “to come to know, recognize, perceive”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 157 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.69: Οὕτω δʼ ἐχούσης τῆς ἐκ μέσου τομῆς αὐτῇ προσαρμοζομένης πρὸς τὰ ἔσχατα γινώσκειν τε τὰ ὄντα καὶ ἐναρμόζειν διὰ τὸ ἔχειν ἐν αὑτῇ τὰ στοιχεῖα κατὰ ἁρμονίαν. καὶ γίνεσθαι δόξαν μὲν κατὰ τὸν θατ …

New Testament, Philippians 1.12: Γινώσκειν δὲ ὑμᾶς βούλομαι, ἀδελφοί, ὅτι τὰ κατʼ ἐμὲ μᾶλλον εἰς προκοπὴν τοῦ εὐαγγελίου ἐλήλυθεν,

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 247: … υσάμην τοῦ στεναγμοῦ καὶ τῶν δακρύων, πρὸς τὸν ἐν οὐρανοῖς Δεσπότην ἀποβλέψας, οἶδα καὶ πέπεισμαι, ὃ καὶ ὑμᾶς γινῶσκειν βούλομαι, ὅτι ταχεῖα ἔσται ἡ ἀντίληψις, καὶ οὐκ εἰς τέλος ἔσται ἡ ἐγκατάλειψις. ὃ μὲν γὰρ πεπόνθαμεν διὰ τὰς …

All forms of γιγνώσκω (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.