χρηστῆς (chrestes)

χρηστῆς is an Ancient Greek form of χρηστός, meaning “useful, good”. It is the genitive singular feminine adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aristides 15.3: μαχεῖται γὰρ ὑμῖν Μαρδόνιος αὔριον, οὐχ ὑπʼ ἐλπίδος χρηστῆς οὐδὲ θάρσους, ἀλλʼ ἀπορίας τῶν παρόντων, ἐπεὶ καὶ μάντεις ἐκεῖνον ἀπαισίοις ἱεροῖς καὶ λογίοις χρησμῶν εἴργου …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 209: … οφέρων. φίλου γὰρ τὸ ἔγκλημα, καὶ ἀνάμενε τῷ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἀπαιτεῖν ὀφλήματα. οὐ γὰρ οὕτω τις ἄτοπός εἰμι φιλίας χρήστης.

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.