εἶχεν (eichen)

εἶχεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 1,493 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.596: Πληγάσι δινήεις εἶχεν ῥόος· αἱ δʼ ἑκάτερθεν

New Testament, Luke 13.6: Ἔλεγεν δὲ ταύτην τὴν παραβολήν. Συκῆν εἶχέν τις πεφυτευμένην ἐν τῷ ἀμπελῶνι αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἦλθεν ζητῶν καρπὸν ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ οὐχ εὗρεν.

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 6.13.1: … ξυμβολαῖς τοῦ τε Ὑδραώτου καὶ τοῦ Ἀκεσίνου, ἵνα Ἡφαιστίων τε ἐπὶ τῆς στρατιᾶς ἦν καὶ Νέαρχος τὸ ναυτικὸν αὐτῷ εἶχενʼ, ὡς [δὲ] ἐπέλαζεν ἡ ναῦς ἤδη τῷ στρατοπέδῳ τὸν βασιλέα φέρουσα, κελεύει δὴ ἀφελεῖν τὴν σκηνὴν ἀπὸ τῆς πρύμνης …

All forms of ἔχω (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.