Bible Lexicons

κρεμ-άννῡμι,

Pl. Lg. 830b, etc.; κρεμ-ύω, Arist. HA 612a10, Thphr. CP 4.3.3; κρεμάω, Arist. Mir. 831a8, Ael. NA 5.3, etc.; κρεμνάω, Demetr. Eloc. 216, Gp. 4.15.15; κρεμάζω, LXX Job 26:7 (v.l. κρεμνῶν): pres. part. κρεμάντες Ath. 1.25d: fut. κρεμάσω [ᾰ ] Alc.Com. 8, LXX Genesis 40:19; Att. κρεμῶ, ᾷς, ᾷ, Ar. Pl. 312 (lyr.); κρεμόω Il. 7.83: aor. 1 ἐκρέμᾰσα Ar. Th. 1028, and Lyr. κρέμασα Od. 8.67, Pi. P. 4.192; Dor. inf. κραμάσαι IG 42(1).122.3 (Epid.); pf. κεκρέμᾰκα Corn. ND 17: —

Med., aor. inf. κρεμάσασθαι Hes. Op. 629, subj. ἐκ-κρεμάσωμαι AP 5.91 (Rufin.): —

Pass., κρέμαμαι, Pi. P. 5.34, Ar. Av. 1387 (also κρεμᾶται Anacreont. 16.17); inf. κρέμασθαι Hp. VM 10, Acut. 30, Antiph. 74.4; subj. κρέμωμαι Hp. Art. 70, Arist. Rh. 1415a13; opt. κρεμαίμην Ar. Ach. 945, V. 298, Nu. 870: impf. ἐκρεμάμην, ω, ατο, Il. 15.21, etc.: fut. κρεμήσομαι in pass. sense, Ar. Ach. 279, V. 808, PCair.Zen. 202.9 (iii B. C.): aor. ἐκρεμάσθην Ar. Th. 1053, etc.: pf. imper. κεκρεμάσθω Apollod. Poliorc. 181.7, v.l. in Archim. Quadr. 13: plpf. κατα-κεκρέμαστο D.S. 18.26. (Cf. κρημνός, Goth. hramjan 'crucify'):

I

1. hang up, σειρὴν.. ἐξ οὐρανόθεν κρεμάσαντες Il. 8.19; τόξον ἐκ πίτυος A. Fr. 251; ἀπὸ κάλω κ. σαυτόν Ar. Ra. 122; καὶ κρεμόω προτὶ νηόν will bring them to the temple and hang them up there as an offering, Il. 7.83; κ. τινὰ τῶν ὄρχεων Ar. Pl. 312; κ. [τὰς ὗς] τῶν ὀπισθίων σκελῶν by the hind legs, Arist. HA 632a23; κρεμάσας τὸ νόημα, in allusion to Socrates in his basket, Ar. Nu. 229, cf. Alex. 126.17; κρεμάσαι τὴν ἀσπίδα hang up one's shield, i.e. have done with war, Ar. Ach. 58; τὴν πανοπλίαν Id. Av. 436: — so in Med., πηδάλιον κρεμάσασθαι hang up one's rudder, i.e. give up the sea, Hes. Op. 629.

2. hang, τινα Arist. Pol. 1311b39, Oec. 1352a11; crucify, Plu. Caes. 2, etc.

II

1. Pass., to be hung up, suspended, ὅτε τ' ἐκρέμω (2 sg. impf.) ὑψόθεν when thou wert hanging, Il. 15.18, cf. 21; μηδ' ὁ Ταντάλου λίθος τῆσδ' ὑπὲρ νήσου κρεμάσθω Archil. 53; to be hung up as a votive offering, Pi. P. 5.34, cf. Hdt. 1.34, 66, etc.; τὰ σπλάγχνα οἱ δοκέει κρέμασθαι Hp. VM 10; κάτω κρέμανται S. Fr. 431; κρεμήσεται.. ἐπὶ τοῦ παττάλου Ar. V. 808; κ. ἐφ' ἵππων X. An. 3.2.19; ἐκ ποδῶν κατωκάρα κ. Ar. Ach. 945; αἱ μέλιτται κ. ἐξ ἀλλήλων Arist. HA 627b13: metaph., ἀμφὶ φρασὶν ἀμπλακίαι κρέμανται Pi. O. 7.25; μῶμος κρέματαί τινι censure hangs over him, ib. 6.74; δόλιος αἰὼν ἐπ' ἀνδράσι κ. Id. I. 8(7).14; κρέμασθαι ἔκ τινος to be wholly taken up with a thing, Pl. Lg. 831c; ὁ ἐκ τοῦ σώματος κρεμάμενος X. Smp. 8.19.

2. to be hanged, of persons, E. Hipp. 1252, Aristopho 9.10, PCair.Zen. l.c.

3. metaph., to be in suspense, ἵνα μὴ κρέμηται ἡ διάνοια Arist. Rh. 1415a13; κ. [ὁλόγος ] Gal. 18(2).754.

4. = ὀκλάζω, Arat. 65 (ubi v. Sch.).