χρείαν (chreian)

χρείαν is an Ancient Greek form of χρεία, meaning “need, use, necessity”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 572 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.32.3: τετύχηκε δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐπιτήδευμα πρός τε ὑμᾶς ἐς τὴν χρείαν ἡμῖν ἄλογον καὶ ἐς τὰ ἡμέτερα αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ παρόντι ἀξύμφορον.

New Testament, 1 Corinthians 12.21: Χρείαν σου οὐκ ἔχω, ἢ πάλιν ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῖς ποσίν Χρείαν ὑμῶν οὐκ ἔχω·

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 218: Τὴν μὲν χρεῖαν, ἧς ἕνεκεν παρεγένετο ὁ ἀδελφὸς Αἰλιανός, κατώρθωσεν ἐφʼ ἑαυτοῦ, οὐδεμιᾶς παρʼ ἡμῶν συνεργίας προσδεηθείς· ἡμ …

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.