ἐκέλευσε (ekeleuse)

ἐκέλευσε is an Ancient Greek form of κελεύω, meaning “to order, command, urge”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 657 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.7.96: … ὶ ἔπεμψε τὸ ἀνάθημα. Λέγουσι δέ τινες ὡς θελήσας αὐτοῦ τὸν τάφον μὴ γνωσθῆναι, τοιοῦτόν τι ἐμηχανήσατο. δυσὶν ἐκέλευσε νεανίσκοις, δείξας τινὰ ὁδόν, ἐξελθεῖν νύκτωρ, καὶ τὸν ἀπαντήσαντα ἀνελεῖν καὶ θάψαι· ἔπειτα βαδίζειν ἄλλους …

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 6.42: … ἐμοῦ μέμψιν θᾶττον ἀνοηταίνειν ἐλέγξω. καὶ οὕτω θεραπεύσας τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ὠφελήσας οἴκαδε ἀπέστειλεν. Ἐκέλευσε δὲ γενέσθαι ἐκ ξύλων βαλάντια τέσσαρα. καὶ τὰ μὲν δύο περικαλύψας πάντοθεν χρυσίῳ, καὶ ὀστᾶ νεκρῶν ὀδωδότα βα …

All forms of κελεύω (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.