χρηστά (chresta)

χρηστά is an Ancient Greek form of χρηστός, meaning “useful, good”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 123 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 21.29: ἆρʼ ἔμαθες κρίνειν πόκʼ ἐνύπνια; χρηστὰ γὰρ εἶδον.

Euripides, Ion 1374: τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ μὲν χρηστά, τοῦ δὲ δαίμονος

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isaeo 11: … κἄν δόξῃς ἀληθῆ λέγειν ἐκείνοις, οὐδέν σοι δεήσει πραγμάτων, ἀλλὰ λαβὼν ἄπει τὰ σαυτοῦ. καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ἐν ἤθει χρηστᾷ διεξελθὼν τελευτῶν ἐπιτίθησι· ταῦτʼ ἐμοῦ προκαλουμένου οὐδεπώποτε ἠθέλησε συνελθεῖν. ὁ δὲ Ἰσαῖος τουτὶ μὲν τὸ …

All forms of χρηστός (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.