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ἐπέτρεψεν (epetrepsen)

ἐπέτρεψεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιτρέπω, meaning “turn over to, entrust, permit”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 104 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 28.11: μόνα τὰ βιβλία τοῦ βασιλέως φιλογραμματοῦσι τοῖς υἱέσιν ἐπέτρεψεν ἐξελέσθαι, καὶ διανέμων ἀριστεῖα τῆς μάχης Αἰλίῳ Τουβέρωνι τῷ γαμβρῷ φιάλην ἔδωκε πέντε λιτρῶν ὁλκήν.

New Testament, Mark 10.4: οἱ δὲ εἶπαν Ἐπέτρεψεν Μωυσῆς βιβλίον ἀποστασίου γράψαι καὶ ἀπολῦσαι.

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 1.29·3: … καὶ τὸν ἀλλόφυλον πατάξαι δώσει αὐτῷ καὶ ἐξελεῖν ὄνειδος ἐξ υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ. ὁ μὲν οὖν εἶπε ταῦτα, ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ἐπέτρεψέν οἱ πορεύεσθαι, καὶ περιέθετο τὰ οἰκεῖα ὅπλα αὐτῷ. καὶ ἦσαν ἄχθος αὐτῷ, καὶ ἀπεδύσατο ταῦτα, ἄρας δὲ τὴν βακτη …

All forms of ἐπιτρέπω (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.