λαβών (labon)

λαβών is an Ancient Greek form of λαμβάνω, meaning “to take, seize, receive”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 2,007 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1368: τόν ῥʼ ἀνὰ χεῖρα λαβὼν μάλα τηλόθεν ἔμβαλε μέσσοις

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.60.4: καὶ ὁ μὲν αὐτός τε καθ’ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ κατ’ ἄλλων μηνύει τὸ τῶν Ἑρμῶν· ὁ δὲ δῆμος ὁ τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἄσμενος λαβών, ὡς ᾤετο, τὸ σαφὲς καὶ δεινὸν ποιούμενοι πρότερον εἰ τοὺς ἐπιβουλεύοντας σφῶν τῷ πλήθει μὴ εἴσονται, τὸν μὲν …

Aesop, Fables 419: … ι αὐτὴν διδάξαι. Τοῦ δὲ παραινοῦντος, πόῤῥω τοῦτο τῆς φύσεως αὐτῆς εἶναι, ἐκείνη μᾶλλον τῇ δεήσει προσέκειτο. Λαβών οὖν αὐτὴν τοῖς ὄνυξι καὶ εἰς ὕψος ἀνενεγκών, εἶτʼ ἀφῆκεν. Ἡ δὲ κατὰ πετρῶν πεσοῦσα συνετρίβη. Ὁ μῦθος δηλοῖ, …

All forms of λαμβάνω (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.