κεῖται (keitai)

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

Found 768 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.333: —πάντα γὰρ εὖ κατὰ κόσμον—ἐπαρτέα κεῖται ἰοῦσιν.

Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus 2.6·2: … υνεχὲς ἀκριβῶς ἐστιν ἢ ἐκ πολλῶν καὶ σμικρῶν σωμάτων, ὧν Ἐπίκουρος καὶ Λεύκιππος καὶ Δημόκριτος ὑπέθεντο, σύγ κειται. καὶ γὰρ καὶ περὶ τούτου τοὺς Ἐρασιστρατείους ὁρῶ διαφερομένους. οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἕν τι καὶ συνεχὲς αὐτὸ νομίζουσιν …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 3.15.98: … εκνοποιησαμένῳ καὶ ἀναθρεψαμένῳ καὶ παιδεύσαντι ἐν κυρίῳ καθάπερ καὶ τῷ διὰ τῆς ἀληθοῦς κατηχήσεως γεννήσαντι κεῖταί τις μισθὸς ὥσπερ καὶ τῷ ἐκλεκτῷ σπέρματι. ἄλλοι δὲ κατάραν τὴν παιδοποιίαν ἐκδέχονται καὶ οὐ συνιᾶσι κατ’ αὐτ …

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.