Lexical Definition

‎ὠνέομαι‎ ōnéomai (o-neh'-om-ahee) to buy ^G:V
middle voice from an apparently primary (a sum or price)

buy.

• to purchase (synonymous with the earlier ‎πίμπρημι‎)

Abbott-Smith

* ὠνέομαι, -οῦμαι
to buy: ὠνήσατο (= cl. ἐπρίατο; v. Rutherford, NPhr., 210 ff.; Veitch, s.v.), c. gen. pret., Ac 7:16.†

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

ὠνέομαι,

[Refs]: future -ήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—in Attic dialect usually with the syllabic augment, ἐωνούμην [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἐωνησάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle ὠνησάμενος [Refs 2nd c.BC+] not in Attic inscriptions earlier than [Refs 1st c.BC+] being used in Attic dialect; ὠνησάμην in the proverbial Χῖος δεσπότην ὠνήσατο [Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect ἐώνημαι in active sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (so pluperfect ἐώνητο [Refs 4th c.BC+]; also as passive (see. below 11): aorist in passive sense (see. below 11) ἐωνήθη; future in passive sense ἀπ-ωνηθήσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—buy, purchase, opposed to πωλέω, πιπράσκ; πῶ τις ὦν ὄνον ὠνασεῖτα; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but in present and imperfect (which are the tenses most in use), offer to buy, bargain or bid for a thing, ὄφρ᾽ ἄλλων ὠνῇ κλῆρον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὠνέεσθαι τῶν φορτίων wished to buy some of their wares, began to bargain for them, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Κροῖσός σφι ὠνεομένοισι ἔδωκε gave it them when they offered to buy, [Refs]; ὀκτὼ λάβοις ἄν (i.e. ὀβολούς); Answ. εἴπερ ὠνεῖ τὸν ἕτερον if you are willing to buy the other fish, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with dative person, buy from.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ὠ. ἐκ Κορίνθου buy goods from Corinth, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; metaphorically, καιρόν, σπονδάς ὠ., [Refs 4th c.BC+]; with genitive pretii, buy for so much, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψυχῆς at the price of life, [Refs 1st c.AD+]: also with dative, buy with.., τἄχθιστα τοῖσι φιλτάτοις ὠνούμεθα [Refs 5th c.BC+]by purchase, [Refs]; also ὁ ὠνούμενος the buyer, purchaser, ὁρῶντος τοῦ ὠνουμένου [Refs 1st c.AD+]; ὁ ἐωνημένος the owner by purchase (of a slave), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ὠνησόμενος the intending purchaser, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

__2 bid for, purchase the farming of public taxes or properties, λ ταλάντων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τέλη παρὰ τῆς πόλεως [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 buy off, avert by giving hush-money, ὠ. τὸν κίνδυνον [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐγκλήματα [Refs]; ταλάντου τὸ πλημμέλημα (i.e. its penalty) παρά τινος [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__4 ὠ. τινα to buy a person, of one who bribes, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II sometimes used as passive, uncertain in present since [ὠνούμενά τε καὶ πιπρασκόμενα] is interpolated in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; occasionally in perfect, participle ἐωνημένος [Refs 4th c.BC+] (but indicative ἐώνηνται [Refs 4th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐώνητο [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in aorist ἐωνήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle ὠνηθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III active perfect participle ἐωνηκώς, ={ἐωνημένος}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ὠνῆσαι· ἀγοράσαι, [Refs]present ὠνεῖν· πωλεῖν, ἀπολαύειν, [Refs 5th c.AD+] they shall sell the property, [Refs]; αἰ δέ τις.. τὸ νόμισμα μὴ λείοι δέκετθαι ἢ καρπῶ ὠνίοι if any one refuses the currency or sells for produce, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]