δεήσει (deesei)

δεήσει is an Ancient Greek form of δέω, meaning “lack, need; (mid.) need, ask for”. It is the 3rd person singular future active indicative.

It can also be a form of δεῖ, “it is necessary, one must”.

Found 359 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.81.3: εἰ δ’ αὖ τοὺς ξυμμάχους ἀφιστάναι πειρασόμεθα, δεήσει καὶ τούτοις ναυσὶ βοηθεῖν τὸ πλέον οὖσι νησιώταις.

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 38: … ρευνώμενος τοὺς ἄλλους· οὐ γὰρ δῆλόν που εἰ αὐτὴ ἦν ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ. ἢ οὐκ οἴει πολλὰς φιάλας εἶναι χρυσᾶς; Ἔγωγε. Δεήσει δὴ ἐπὶ πάντας ἰέναι ἐρευνῶντα καὶ τὰ παρ' ἑκάστῳ εὑρεθέντα πάντα εἰς μέσον καταθέντα εἰκάζειν ὅ τι ποτὲ αὐτῶν …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 6.96: … άνοντο καὶ σιδηροφορεῖν χρῆσθαί τε καθάπαξ ἀπηγόρευον σιδήρῳ, καὶ διὰ ταύτην τὴν πρόρρησιν οἱ γεωργοὶ, εἴποτε δεήσειʼ αὐτοὺς ἐπισκευάσαι τι τῶν ἐργαλείων, ἢ ὕνιν ἢ δίκελλαν ἢ ἄλλο τι τῶν εἰς γεωργίαν χρησίμων, φοιτῶντες εἰς τοὺ …

All forms of δέω (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.