λαμβάνει (lambanei)

λαμβάνει is an Ancient Greek form of λαμβάνω, meaning “to take, seize, receive”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 362 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.91.1: οἱ δὲ ἀκούοντες τῷ μὲν Θεμιστοκλεῖ ἐπείθοντο διὰ φιλίαν αὐτοῦ, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων ἀφικνουμένων καὶ σαφῶς κατηγορούντων ὅτι τειχίζεταί τε καὶ ἤδη ὕψος λαμβάνει, οὐκ εἶχον ὅπως χρὴ ἀπιστῆσαι.

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi meretricii 4.4: … τε ἐγὼ μὲν ἤδη ἀπεγνώκειν, ὁ δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπῳδῶν ἧκεν αὖθις ἐπ' ἐμέ. Τί δὲ ἔπραξεν ἡ γραῦς, εἴπερ ἔτι μέμνησαι; Λαμβάνει μὲν οὐδὲ πολύν, ὦ Μέλιττα, τὸν μισθόν, ἀλλὰ δραχμὴν καὶ ἄρτον· ἐπικεῖσθαι δὲ δεῖ μετὰ τῶν ἁλῶν καὶ ὀβολοὺς ἑπ …

Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 68.2: … ἀπολαμβάνει τὰ σύμβολα, ἀνθʼ ὧν εἷς ἕκαστος ψηφιζόμενος λαμβάνει σύμβολον χαλκοῦν μετὰ τὸν γ ʽἀποδιδοὺς γὰρ γ λαμβάνεἰ, ἵνα ψηφίζωνται πάντες· οὐ γὰρ ἔστι λαβεῖν σύμβολον οὐδενί, ἐὰν μὴ ψηφίζηται.

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.