χρῄζειν (chrezein)

χρῄζειν is an Ancient Greek form of χρῄζω, meaning “need, want”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.9.104: … ς καὶ πίθοις, καθάπερ Διογένης, ὃς ἔφασκε θεῶν μὲν ἴδιον εἶναι μηδενὸς δεῖσθαι, τῶν δὲ θεοῖς ὁμοίων τὸ ὀλίγων χρῄζειν.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 38.37.1: … ῦθα ὄντας (οὔτε γὰρ ἄλλως ἀγνοεῖτε αὐτὰ ὥστε καὶ μαθεῖν δεῖσθαι, οὔτʼ ὀλιγώρως αὐτῶν ἔχετε ὥστε καὶ προτροπῆς χρῄζεινʼ, ἀλλʼ ὅτι τινὰς τῶν στρατιωτῶν ᾔσθημαι αὐτούς τε θρυλοῦντας ὡς οὐ προσήκοντα τόνδε τὸν πόλεμον ἀνῃρήμεθα, καὶ …

All forms of χρῄζω (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.