Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /eŋɡíz̚zo/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /eɲɟíz̚zo/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ẽɟízo/

Verb

ἐγγίζω • ‎(engízō)

1. to bring near, bring up to
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ezekiel 7.4
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 3.2
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 8.4.7
   • 50 CE – 150 CE, Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon 2.37
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 48.10
2. (mostly intransitive) to come near, approach
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Marvellous Things Heard 845.A.20
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 18.4.1
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 4.62.5
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 19.21
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Job 33.22
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Sirach 37.30
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Philippians 2.30
   • New Testament, Epistle of James 5.8
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, Herculaneum Papyri 1457.4

Inflection

References

• ἐγγίζω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «ἐγγίζω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἐγγίζω» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1448”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979