ὤφειλεν (opheilen)

ὤφειλεν is an Ancient Greek form of ὀφείλω, meaning “owe, ought”.

It can also be a form of ὀφέλλω, “increase, help”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Titus Flamininus 14.2: … είους δὲ χρυσοῦς μυρίους τετρακισχιλίους πεντακοσίους δεκατέσσαρας, χωρὶς δὲ τούτων τὰ χίλια τάλαντα Φίλιππος ὤφειλεν. ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὕστερον ἐπείσθησαν Ῥωμαῖοι, μάλιστα τοῦ Τίτου συμπράξαντος, ἀφεῖναι τῷ Φιλίππῳ, καὶ σύμμαχον …

All forms of ὀφείλω (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.