χρειῶν (chreion)

χρειῶν is an Ancient Greek form of χράω, meaning “to declare (an oracle); to lend; (mid.) use”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of χρεώ, “need, necessity”.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.360: θείομεν Ἀπόλλωνος, ὅ μοι χρείων ὑπέδεκτο

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.85: … ν αὐτῷ συγγράμματα τάδε· Περὶ παιδείας. Περὶ ἀρετῆς. Προτρεπτικός. Ἀρτάβαζος. Ναυαγοί. Φυγάδες. Διατριβῶν ἕξ. Χρειῶν τρία. Πρὸς Λαΐδα. Πρὸς Πῶρον. Πρὸς Σωκράτην. Περὶ τύχης. Τέλος δʼ ἀπέφαινε τὴν λείαν κίνησιν εἰς αἴσθησιν ἀνα …

All forms of χράω (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.