ἐζήτει (ezetei)

ἐζήτει is an Ancient Greek form of ζητέω, meaning “seek”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 100 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.10.109: … τῆς ὁδοῦ κατὰ μεσημβρίαν ἐκκλίνας ὑπʼ ἄντρῳ τινὶ κατεκοιμήθη ἑπτὰ καὶ πεντήκοντα ἔτη. διαναστὰς δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα ἐζήτει τὸ πρόβατον, νομίζων ἐπʼ ὀλίγον κεκοιμῆσθαι. ὡς δὲ οὐχ εὕρισκε, παρεγένετο εἰς τὸν ἀγρόν, καὶ μετεσκευασμένα …

Babrius, Fables 2.2: καὶ τὴν δίκελλαν ἀπολέσας 〈ἐπ〉εζήτει,

All forms of ζητέω (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.