ἐγίνετο (egineto)

ἐγίνετο is an Ancient Greek form of γίγνομαι, meaning “to become, be born, happen”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 497 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.68: … ς ὁμιλεῖν. ὀνειδιζόμενός ποτʼ ἐπὶ τῷ πολυτελῶς ζῆν, εἰ τοῦτʼ, ἔφη, φαῦλον ἦν, οὐκ ἂν ἐν ταῖς τῶν θεῶν ἑορταῖς ἐγίνετο. ἐρωτηθείς ποτε τί πλέον ἔχουσιν οἱ φιλόσοφοι, ἔφη, ἐὰν πάντες οἱ νόμοι ἀναιρεθῶσιν, ὁμοίως βιωσόμεθα.

New Testament, Acts 2.43: Ἐγίνετο δὲ πάσῃ ψυχῇ φόβος, πολλὰ δὲ τέρατα καὶ σημεῖα διὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐγίνετο.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2.43.3: … τειν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπέτρεψε, καὶ τοῦ Ῥωμύλου, ῥᾷον γὰρ ἤδη εἶχεν ἐκ τοῦ τραύματος, ἐκβοηθήσαντος ὡς εἶχε τάχους, ἐγίνετό τε ἀγχίστροφος ἡ τοῦ ἀγῶνος τύχη καὶ πολλὴν ἔχουσα τὴν ἐπὶ θάτερα μεταβολήν.

All forms of γίγνομαι (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.