χρῆν (chren)

χρῆν is an Ancient Greek form of χρή, meaning “it is necessary, one must”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 248 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.624: χρῆν γὰρ ἐφιεμένοιο καταντικρὺ Πελίαο

Julian, Emperor of Rome, Epistolae 56.1: Χρῆν μὲν οἴκοθεν διανοηθέντα ὃ δὴ νῦν ἔδοξε κρατῦναι τῷ νόμῳ, τὸ παλαιὸν ἔθος ἀναλαβεῖν, ὃ διανοούμενοι μὲν οἱ πάλ …

All forms of χρή (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.