οἴδαμεν (oidamen)

οἴδαμεν is an Ancient Greek form of οἶδα, meaning “to know”. It is the 1st person plural present active subjunctive.

Found 91 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum 9.1·3: … ίους. ἡκόντων δὲ καὶ παρʼ Ἀντιπάτρου πρέσβεων, ἐπαινούντων τὸν Ἀντίπατρον ὡς χρηστόν, ἀπαντήσας· αὐτοῖς εἶπεν οἴδαμεν ὅτι χρηστὸς ὑπάρχει, ἀλλʼ ἡμεῖς γʼ οὐ δεόμεθα χρηστοῦ δεσπότου. λέγεται δʼ ἄνευ ὑποκρίσεως δημηγορῆσαι καὶ μό …

New Testament, John 9.20: ἀπεκρίθησαν οὖν οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπαν Οἴδαμεν ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ υἱὸς ἡμῶν καὶ ὅτι τυφλὸς ἐγεννήθη·

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 189·4: … ύταις ἐννοίαις ὑψηλαῖς τε καὶ θεοπρεπέσι συναπτόμενον Πατρὶ καὶ Υἱῷ ἐν οὐδενὶ διακεκρίσθαι νομίζειν. οὐδὲ γὰρ οἴδαμέν τινα τῶν περὶ τὴν θείαν φύσιν ἐπινοουμένων ὀνομάτων τὴν κατὰ τὸ κρεῖττον καὶ τὸ χεῖρον διαφοράν, ὡς εὐαγὲς εἶ …

All forms of οἶδα (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.