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εἰλήφθω (eilephtho)

εἰλήφθω is an Ancient Greek form of λαμβάνω, meaning “to take, seize, receive”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect middle/passive imperative.

Found 85 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo 18: … τὸν θεὸν λείπειν ἑκάστου μόριον αὐτῶν, οὗ λόγος ἐστίν, ὃν ἔχει τὰ σʼ καὶ νʼ καὶ σʼ πρὸς τὰ γʼ καὶ μʼ καὶ σʼ. εἰλήφθω γὰρ τὸ διὰ τεσσάρων ἐν ἀριθμοῖς δυσὶ τὸν ἐπίτριτον λόγον περιέχουσι, τοῖς σνσʼ καὶ τοῖς ἑκατὸν ἐνενήκοντα δύο …

All forms of λαμβάνω (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.