σέβεσθαι (sebesthai)

σέβεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of σέβομαι, meaning “revere, feel awe”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 76 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.120: Δοκεῖ δʼ αὐτοῖς καὶ γονέας σέβεσθαι καὶ ἀδελφοὺς ἐν δευτέρᾳ μοίρᾳ μετὰ θεούς. φασὶ δὲ καὶ τὴν πρὸς τὰ τέκνα φιλοστοργίαν φυσικὴν εἶναι αὐτοῖς καὶ …

Euripides, Orestes 347: τὸν ἀπὸ Ταντάλου, σέβεσθαί με χρή;

All forms of σέβομαι (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.