σέβω (sebo)

σέβω means “revere, worship”.

Ancient Greek word, found 234 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.53.4: θεῶν δὲ φόβος ἢ ἀνθρώπων νόμος οὐδεὶς ἀπεῖργε, τὸ μὲν κρίνοντες ἐν ὁμοίῳ καὶ σέβειν καὶ μὴ ἐκ τοῦ πάντας ὁρᾶν ἐν ἴσῳ ἀπολλυμένους, τῶν δὲ ἁμαρτημάτων οὐδεὶς ἐλπίζων μέχρι τοῦ δίκην γενέσθαι βιο …

Euripides, Medea 395: οὐ γὰρ μὰ τὴν δέσποιναν ἣν ἐγὼ σέβω

Euripides, Heracleidae 6: ἐγὼ γὰρ αἰδοῖ καὶ τὸ συγγενὲς σέβων,

All forms of σέβω (conjugation)

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.