ἵνα

See also: -ινα and -ίνα

Ancient Greek

The stem ἵ- (hí-) is probably from Proto-Indo-European *Hyós (“that, who, which”), while the ending is an instrumental ending found in Sanskrit येन (yena, “by which, by that”), Old High German hina (“thither”), Old Irish cen (“on this side”).^[1]

ῐ̔́νᾰ • (hína)

Subordinating conjunction
1. final, introducing a subordinate clause expressing a purpose: in order that, so that, so
2. introducing a clause of effort, indicating what someone is trying to accomplish: that
3. (usually poetic) where

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἵνα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 592

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“ἵνα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἵνα 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
ἵνα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ἵνα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2443 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- master idem, page 517.
- order idem, page 578.
- short idem, page 768.
- that idem, page 863.
- where idem, page 975.
- whither idem, page 977.
Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part IV: Syntax”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 2193, 2209, 2498