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Lexicon
mimeomai: to imitate
Original Word: μιμέομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: mimeomai
Phonetic Spelling: (mim-eh'-om-ahee)
Short Definition: I imitate
Definition: I imitate, follow.

HELPS word-Studies

Cognate: 3401 miméomai – to imitate, emulating a mentor or example. See 3402 (mimētēs).

[The high level of personal (self) interest motivating 3402 (mimētḗs) accounts for why it is always in the Greek middle voice.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from mimos (a mimic)
Definition
to imitate
NASB Translation
follow...example (2), imitate (2).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 3401: μιμέομαι

μιμέομαι, μιμοῦμαι; (μῖμος (an actor, mimic)); to imitate: τινα, anyone, 2 Thessalonians 3:7, 9; τί, Hebrews 13:7; 3 John 1:11. (Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus, others.)



Strong's
follow.

Middle voice from mimos (a "mimic"); to imitate -- follow.

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