θεῖ (thei)

θεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of θέω, meaning “run”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative or 2nd person singular present active imperative.

It can also be a form of θεία, “aunt”.

It can also be a form of θεῖοσ, “(garbled form; cf. θεῖος, divine)”.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Alcestis 103: θει πίτνει· οὐ νεολαία

Euripides, Andromache 439: τὰ θεῖα δ’ οὐ θεῖ’ οὐδ’ ἔχειν ἡγῇ δίκην;

Euripides, Ion 1217: θεῖ δʼ εὐθὺς ἔξω συλλαβὼν θοινάτορας

All forms of θέω (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.