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ἀγαπήσεις (agapeseis)

ἀγαπήσεις is an Ancient Greek form of ἀγαπάω, meaning “love, be fond of”.

It can also be a form of ἀγάπησις, “affection”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marius 8.3: … ὁ Μέτελλος εἰπεῖν, σὺ δὴ καταλιπὼν ἡμᾶς, ὦ γενναῖε, πλεῖν ἐπʼ οἴκου διανοῇ καὶ παραγγέλλειν ὑπατείαν; οὐ γάρ ἀγαπήσεις, ἂν τᾠμῷ παιδὶ τούτῳ συνυπατεύσῃς; ἦν δ’ ὁ παῖς τότε τοῦ Μετέλλου παντάπασι μειράκιον.

New Testament, Matthew 5.43: Ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐρρέθη Ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου καὶ μισήσεις τὸν ἐχθρόν σου.

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.