# ἡγέομαι
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ᾱ̔γέομαι (hāgéomai) — Doric
* ἡγηλάζω (hēgēlázō) — Epic

### Etymology

Beekes prefers to derive the word as an iterative present from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”); cognates include English seek, Latin sagiō (“to perceive keenly”).
Other theories consider the word as a deponent, intensified form of ᾰ̓́γω (ắgō, “to lead, to guide, to command”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti (“to be driving”), in -ομαι with the Indo-European thematic vowel retained.
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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɛː.ɡé.o.mai̯/ → /iˈʝe.o.mɛ/ → /iˈʝe.o.me/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /hɛː.ɡé.o.mai̯/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /(h)e̝ˈɡe.o.mɛ/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /iˈʝe.o.mɛ/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /iˈʝe.o.me/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /iˈʝe.o.me/

### Verb

ἡγέομαι • (hēgéomai)
* to go before, precede; to lead the way, guide
** 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 834
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.93
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.144
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.96
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.125
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 6.300
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.65
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.48
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.4.5
* to lead (dative) in (genitive)
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.134
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 5.25
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.248
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Alc. 1.125d
** 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 281a
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 730c
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 97c
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.7.1
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.3.15
* (with accusative) to be leader (in a thing)
** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 174
** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 226
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 99
* to lead, command in war
** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1360
** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 282.24
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.687
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.864
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.211
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.169
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.238
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Nicocles 567
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Evagoras 45
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 101
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panathenaicus 180
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Antidosis 311
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, On the Team of Horses 21
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.10
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.2.6
** to rule, to have dominion
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1363
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.95
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.148
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.1
*** New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 15:22
*** 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, Index Academicorum 107
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 386
* (post-Homeric) to believe, hold
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1020
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.126
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 278
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.89
** to hold, regard (as something)
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 902
*** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1035
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 164
*** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 454
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.115
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.52
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Aegineticus 10
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, On the Olive Stump 26
*** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 1167
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 108
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1442
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.10

#### Derived terms

* ἀνηγέομαι (anēgéomai)
* ἀρχηγός (arkhēgós)
* ἀφηγέομαι (aphēgéomai)
* εἰσηγέομαι (eisēgéomai)
* ἐνηγέομαι (enēgéomai)
* ἐξηγέομαι (exēgéomai)
* ἐφηγέομαι (ephēgéomai)
* ἡγεμών (hēgemṓn)
* Ἡγησίνους (Hēgēsínous)
* Ἡγήσιππος (Hēgḗsippos)
* Ἡγησιπύλη (Hēgēsipúlē)
* ἥγησις (hḗgēsis)
* ἡγήτωρ (hēgḗtōr)
* καθηγέομαι (kathēgéomai)
* παρηγέομαι (parēgéomai)
* περιηγέομαι (periēgéomai)
* προηγέομαι (proēgéomai)
* σκυλακαγέτις (skulakagétis)
* συνηγέομαι (sunēgéomai)
* ὑφηγέομαι (huphēgéomai)
* χορηγός (khorēgós)

#### Related terms

* ἡγεσία (hēgesía)
* ἡγέτης (hēgétēs)
* ἥγημα (hḗgēma)
* ἡγητέον (hēgētéon)
* ἡγητήρ (hēgētḗr)
* ἡγητής (hēgētḗs)
* ἡγητικός (hēgētikós)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἡγέομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 508-9

### Further reading

* “ἡγέομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἡγέομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἡγέομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἡγέομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* ἡγέομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* G2233 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* “ἡγέομαι”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011