φέρειν (pherein)

φέρειν is an Ancient Greek form of φέρω, meaning “to carry, bring, bear”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 889 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.300: τλῆθι φέρειν· θάρσει δὲ συνημοσύνῃσιν Ἀθήνης,

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi meretricii 12.3: … οὖσαν, ἀλλὰ διὰ σέ, ὡς μὴ καταγιγνώσκῃς ἐμοῦ καὶ λέγῃς, Ἄτεγκτος ὁ Λυσίας ἐστίν. Ἀμέλει καὶ ἔλεγον, ὦ Λυσία. Φέρειν οὖν ἐθέλεις, ὦ Πυθιάς, Ἰόεσσαν ταύτην τὴν νῦν δακρύουσαν αὐτὸν ἐπιστάντα αὐτῇ ποτε μετὰ νεανίου καθευδούσῃ ἐμ …

Procopius, De Bellis 2.8.1: Χοσρόης δέ ʽκαὶ γάρ οἱ Μέγας χρήματα ἔφασκεν οὐδαμῆ πεπεικέναι Ἀντιοχέας φέρειν’ παντὶ τῷ στρατῷ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺς ᾔει.

All forms of φέρω (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.