ἐλάβετε (elabete)

ἐλάβετε is an Ancient Greek form of λαμβάνω, meaning “to take, seize, receive”. It is the 2nd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.41.2: νεῶν γὰρ μακρῶν σπανίσαντές ποτε πρὸς τὸν Αἰγινητῶν ὑπὲρ τὰ Μηδικὰ πόλεμον παρὰ Κορινθίων εἴκοσι ναῦς ἐλάβετε· καὶ ἡ εὐεργεσία αὕτη τε καὶ ἡ ἐς Σαμίους, τὸ δι’ ἡμᾶς Πελοποννησίους αὐτοῖς μὴ βοηθῆσαι, παρέσχεν ὑμῖν Αἰγιν …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 210·3: … καὶ μέγα φρονεῖν, ὡς ἐπὶ οἰκείῳ εὑρήματι. εἴρηται γάρ, φησίν· Ἐγὼ ἦλθον ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ Πατρός μου, καὶ οὐκ ἐλάβετέ με· ἐὰν ἄλλος ἔλθῃ ἐν τῷ ἰδίῳ ὀνόματι, ἐκεῖνον λήψεσθε. καὶ διὰ τὸ εἰρῆσθαι, Μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, βαπτί …

All forms of λαμβάνω (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.