ἐφάνησαν (ephanesan)

ἐφάνησαν is an Ancient Greek form of φανάω, meaning “show”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.8.1: … πὸ Ἀθηναίων ἐν τῷδε τῷ πολέμῳ καὶ τῶν θηκῶν ἀναιρεθεισῶν ὅσαι ἦσαν τῶν τεθνεώτων ἐν τῇ νήσῳ, ὑπὲρ ἥμισυ Κᾶρες ἐφάνησαν, γνωσθέντες τῇ τε σκευῇ τῶν ὅπλων ξυντεθαμμένῃ καὶ τῷ τρόπῳ ᾧ νῦν ἔτι θάπτουσιν.

Isaeus, On the Estate of Dicaeogenes 15: δύο γὰρ διαθῆκαι 〈ἀπ〉εφάνησαν, ἡ μὲν πάλαι, ἡ δὲ πολλῷ ὕστερον· καὶ κατὰ μὲν τὴν παλαιάν, ἣν ἀπέφηνε Πρόξενος ὁ Δικαιογένους τουτουὶ πατήρ, …

All forms of φανάω (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.