δέξαι (dexai)

δέξαι is an Ancient Greek form of δέχομαι, meaning “receive, accept, welcome”. It is the 2nd person singular aorist middle imperative.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 56: δέξαι θηλαῖσι σπορὰς

Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Delian and Pythian Apollo 274: δέξαιʼ ἱερὰ καλὰ περικτιόνων ἀνθρώπων.

New Testament, Luke 16.6: ὁ δὲ εἶπεν Ἑκατὸν βάτους ἐλαίου· ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Δέξαι σου τὰ γράμματα καὶ καθίσας ταχέως γράψον πεντήκοντα.

All forms of δέχομαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.