κέχρηνται (kechrentai)

κέχρηνται is an Ancient Greek form of χράω, meaning “to declare (an oracle); to lend; (mid.) use”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.74: … οὔ, τί δὲ πλεῦσαι ἐν νηῒ ᾗ μυρίοι ποτὲ ἐνέπλευσαν ἢ μηδείς; οὐδαμῶς. οὐδʼ ἄρα γυναικί, ἔφη, συνεῖναι ᾗ πολλοὶ κέχρηνται ἢ μηδείς. πρὸς τὸν αἰτιώμενον ὅτι Σωκράτους μαθητὴς ὢν ἀργύριον λαμβάνει, καὶ μάλα, εἶπε· καὶ γὰρ Σωκράτης, π …

Flavius Josephus, Against Apion 1.219: Ἓν ἔτι μοι κεφάλαιον ὑπολείπεται τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν προτεθέντων τοῦ λόγου, τὰς διαβολὰς καὶ τὰς λοιδορίας, αἷς κέχρηνταί τινες κατὰ τοῦ γένους ἡμῶν, ἀποδεῖξαι ψευδεῖς καὶ τοῖς γεγραφόσι ταύτας καθʼ ἑαυτῶν χρήσασθαι μάρτυσιν.

All forms of χράω (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.