δεηθῆναι (deethenai)

δεηθῆναι is an Ancient Greek form of δέω, meaning “lack, need; (mid.) need, ask for”. It is the aorist passive infinitive.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 33.3: … λεύσαντος, ἀλλʼ ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὡς ἔοικεν, οἰκτείρας τὴν ἱκετείαν, ὁρμὴν παρέστησε δευρὶ τραπέσθαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς καὶ δεηθῆναι σωτηρίαν μὲν αὑταῖς καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις πολίταις, ὑμῖν δὲ πεισθείσαις ἐπιφανεστέραν φέροντα δόξαν ἧς αἱ Σαβίνων θ …

Plutarch, Artaxerxes 18.1: … τρατηγοὺς Τισαφέρνης ἐξηπάτησε καὶ παρεσπόνδησεν ὅρκων γενομένων καὶ συλλαβὼν ἀνέπεμψεν ἐν πέδαις δεδεμένους, δεηθῆναί φησιν αὐτοῦ τὸν Κλέαρχον ὁ Κτησίας ὅπως κτενὸς εὐπορήσειε. τυχόντα δὲ καὶ τημελήσαντα τὴν κεφαλήν ἡσθῆναί τε …

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.