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δεῖξον (deixon)

δεῖξον is an Ancient Greek form of δείκνυμι, meaning “show, point out, display”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist active imperative.

Found 92 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 838: νῦν δεῖξον οἷον παῖδά σ’ ἡ Τιρυνθία

Euripides, Electra 818: δεῖξόν τε φήμην ἔτυμον ἀμφὶ Θεσσαλῶν.

New Testament, John 14.9: λέγει αὐτῷ [ὁ] Ἰησοῦς Τοσοῦτον χρόνον μεθʼ ὑμῶν εἰμὶ καὶ οὐκ ἔγνωκάς με, Φίλιππε; ὁ ἑωρακὼς ἐμὲ ἑωρακεν τὸν πατέρα· πῶς σὺ λέγεις Δεῖξον ἡμῖν τὸν πατέρα;

All forms of δείκνυμι (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.