ῥώννυμι

• ῥωννύω (rhōnnúō)

Of uncertain origin. Could be related to ῥώομαι (rhṓomai, “I dart”), as well as Sanskrit सार (sāra, “strength, power, energy”), which would hypothetically trace back to a Proto-Indo-European *serh₃- (“power; to move violently”).^[1] See also English raw, Swedish rå (“raw”).

ῥώννῡμῐ • (rhṓnnūmi)

1. to strengthen
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Nutriments 2:

     αὔξει δὲ καὶ ῥώννυσι καὶ σαρκοῖ καὶ ὁμοιοῖ καὶ ἀνομοιοῖ

     aúxei dè kaì rhṓnnusi kaì sarkoî kaì homoioî kaì anomoioî

     It increases, strengthens, clothes with flesh, makes like, makes unlike

   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 19:

     οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἐποίκους Ἀθηναίων χιλίους κομίσας ἔρρωσεν εὐανδρίᾳ τὰς πόλεις

     ou gàr mónon epoíkous Athēnaíōn khilíous komísas érrhōsen euandríāi tàs póleis

     Not only did he bring thither a thousand Athenian colonists and stock the cities anew with vigorous manhood

2. (perfect in present sense) to have strength
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.4.29:

     φιλότιμον μὲν καὶ ἐρρωμένον τὴν ψυχήν

     philótimon mèn kaì errhōménon tḕn psukhḗn

     ambitious and with a stout spirit

   1. to be eager, enthusiastic
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.8:

        ὀλίγον τε ἐπενόουν οὐδὲν ἀμφότεροι, ἀλλ’ ἔρρωντο ἐς τὸν πόλεμον οὐκ ἀπεικότως:

        olígon te epenóoun oudèn amphóteroi, all’ érrhōnto es tòn pólemon ouk apeikótōs:

        On neither side were there any mean thoughts; they both were full of enthusiasm:

      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Agoratus 31:

        οὕτω ἔρρωτο ἡ βουλὴ κακόν τι ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτὸν

        hoútō érrhōto hē boulḕ kakón ti ergázesthai autòn

        so firmly determined were the Council to work some mischief

   2. to be in good health
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.15:

        καὶ γὰρ ὅτ’ ἐρρώμην πολλὰ ἐν ἡγεμονίαις ὑμᾶς εὖ ἐποίησα.

        kaì gàr hót’ errhṓmēn pollà en hēgemoníais humâs eû epoíēsa.

        as while I was in my prime I did you much good service in my commands.

      1. (imperative) be in good health, farewell, goodbye

• “ῥώννυμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥώννυμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥώννυμι 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
• G4517 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible