κείσθω (keistho)

κείσθω is an Ancient Greek form of κεῖμαι, meaning “to lie, be laid down”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive imperative.

Found 134 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Nicias 9.5: … καὶ οἰκείους ἐπιμιξίας, ἐπόθουν τὸν ἀμίαντον καὶ ἀπόλεμον βίον, ἡδέως μὲν ᾀδόντων τὰ τοιαῦτα χορῶν ἀκούοντες· κείσθω δόρυ μοι μίτον ἀμφιπλέκειν ἀράχναις· ἡδέως δὲ μεμνημένοι τοῦ εἰπόντος ὅτι τοὺς ἐν εἰρήνῃ καθεύδοντας οὐ σάλπι …

Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to Endurance or To the Newly Baptized (Fragment 44) 3: Κείσθω δέ σοι πάντα εἰς θεὸν καὶ ἔργα καὶ λόγοι, καὶ πάντα ἀνάφερε Χριστῷ τὰ σαυτοῦ, καὶ πυκνῶς ἐπὶ θεὸν τρέπε τὴν ψ …

All forms of κεῖμαι (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.