σιγᾶν (sigan)

σιγᾶν is an Ancient Greek form of σιγάω, meaning “be silent”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 78 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 263: σιγᾶν. γυνὴ γὰρ τἄλλα μὲν φόβου πλέα

Sophocles, Electra 1261: μεταβάλοιτʼ ἂν ὧδε σιγὰν λόγων;

New Testament, Acts 12.17: κατασείσας δὲ αὐτοῖς τῇ χειρὶ σιγᾷν διηγήσατο αὐτοῖς πῶς ὁ κύριος αὐτὸν ἐξήγαγεν ἐκ τῆς φυλακῆς, εἶπέν τε Ἀπαγγείλατε Ἰακώβῳ καὶ τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς ταῦτα. καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἐπορεύθη εἰς ἕτερον τόπον.

All forms of σιγάω (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.