χρείαις (chreiais)

χρείαις is an Ancient Greek form of χρεία, meaning “need, use, necessity”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 66 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.4: … ύγοντα, ὦ δυστυχής, εἶπε, πηλίκον κίνδυνον ὀβολοῦ διαφυγεῖν ἴσχυες. κρεῖττον ἔλεγε, καθά φησιν Ἑκάτων ἐν ταῖς Χρείαις, εἰς κόρακας ἢ εἰς κόλακας ἐμπεσεῖν· οἱ μὲν γὰρ νεκρούς, οἱ δὲ ζῶντας ἐσθίουσιν.

All forms of χρεία (declension 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.