σέβονται (sebontai)

σέβονται is an Ancient Greek form of σέβομαι, meaning “revere, feel awe”. It is the 3rd person plural present middle/passive indicative.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Suppliants 595: δίκην σέβονται· ταῦτα γὰρ ξυνόνθʼ ὁμοῦ

New Testament, Matthew 15.9: μάτην δὲ σέβονταί με, διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων.

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.