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ἀφαιρεῖ (aphairei)

ἀφαιρεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφαιρέω, meaning “take away, remove”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative or 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracles 99: πηγὰς ἀφαίρει καὶ παρευκήλει λόγοις,

Plutarch, Demetrius 30.4: … βασιλεῦσι καὶ δυνάσταις τεκμήριόν ἐστιν ὑπερβολὴ τιμῶν, ἧς ἐν τῇ προαιρέσει τῶν ἀποδιδόντων ἐχούσης τὸ καλὸν ἀφαιρεῖ τὴν πίστιν ὁ φόβος· τὰ γὰρ αὐτὰ καὶ δεδιότες ψηφίζονται καὶ φιλοῦντες.

All forms of ἀφαιρέω (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.