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εὐχήν (euchen)

εὐχήν is an Ancient Greek form of εὐχή, meaning “prayer, vow”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 141 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.16: … , ἐνταῦθα καὶ τὰ Πυθιάδος ὀστᾶ ἀνελόντας θεῖναι, ὥσπερ αὐτὴ προσέταξεν· ἀναθεῖναι δὲ καὶ Νικάνορα σωθέντα, ἣν εὐχὴν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ ηὐξάμην, ζῷα λίθινα τετραπήχη Διὶ σωτῆρι καὶ Ἀθηνᾷ σωτείρᾳ ἐν Σταγείροις. Τοῦτον ἴσχουσιν αὐτῷ αἱ …

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 628: μάταιον εὐχήν, ὦ τάλας, ὅστις ποτʼ εἶ,

All forms of εὐχή (declension 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.