gravfw gravfw; (imperfect e[grafon); future gravyw; 1 aorist e[graya; perfect gevgrafa; passive (present gravfomai); perfect gegrammai; (pluperfect 3 person singular ejgevgrapto, Lachmann); 2 aorist ejgravfhn; (properly, to grave, scrape, scratch, engrave; cf. German graben, eingraben; grayen dev oiJ ojstevon a[cri" aijcmhv, Homer, Iliad 17, 599; shmata gravya" ejn pivnaki, ibid. 6, 169; hence, to draw letters), to write;1. with reference to the form of the letters; to delineate (or form) letters on a tablet, parchment, paper, or other material: tw'/ daktuvlw/ e[grafen eij" thvn gh'n made figures on the ground, Rec.; ou{tw gravfw so I am accustomed to form my letters, ; phlivkoi" grammasi e[graya with how large (and so, ill-formed (?)) letters I have written, ; cf. Winer, R?ckert, Hilgenfeld at the passage (for the views of those who regard e[graya as covering the close of the Epistle only, see Lightfoot and Meyer; cf. Winer's Grammar, 278 (261); Buttmann, 198 (171f)).2. with reference to the contents of the writing; a. to express in written characters, followed by the words expressed: e[graye levgwn. !Iwavnnh" ejsti tov o[noma aujtou', ; mhv gravfe. oJ basileuv" tw'n !Ioudaivwn ktl., ; gravyon makavrioi ktl., . gravfw tiv, ; passive ; ejpiv tiv, ; ; tiv ejpiv tina, ; ejpiv tivno", . b. to commit to writing (things not to be forgotten), write dozen, record: (gravyon a{ ei\de"); ; gravfein eij" biblivon, ; ejpiv tov biblivon th'" zwh'", ; gegrammevnwn ejn tw'/ biblivw/ (or th'/ bivblw/), ejn toi'" biblivoi", ; ,; ; ,; tav ojnovmata uJmw'n ejgravfh (ejggrafhv (ejggrafhv Tr see Nu) gegrammevnon T Tr WH) ejn toi'" oujranoi'", i. e. that ye have been enrolled with those for whom eternal blessedness has been prepared, ; gravfein tiv tivni, to record something for someone's use, . c. ejgravfh and gevgraptai (in the Synoptists and Paul), and gegrammevnon ejsti (in John), are used of those things which stand written in the sacred books (of the O. T.); absolutely gevgraptai, followed by the quotation from the sacred vol.: ,f,10; ; ; ; ; ; ; kaqwv" gevgraptai, , very often in Paul, as ; ; (see below); ; ; ; ; kaqavper gegrammevnon, T Tr WH; ( T Tr WH); gevgraptai gavr, ; ; <<ref:BHS/GNT_Act 23:5$$Acts