ἐλέγχου (elenchou)

ἐλέγχου is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλέγχω, meaning “test, refute; shame”.

It can also be a form of ἔλεγχος, “test, refutation”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Artaxerxes 29.1: … τοξέρξῃ καὶ τὸ παριδεῖν κίνδυνον τηλικοῦτον, ἀμελήσαντα τῆς διαβολῆς, δεινὸν ἐδόκει, καὶ τὸ πιστεῦσαι μηδενὸς ἐλέγχου γενομένου δεινότερον.

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 5.7.1: … ἰρηναῖος ἀκολούθως ταῖς προδιεξοδευθείσαις ἡμῖν ὑπογράψας ἱστορίαις ἐν οἷς ἐπέγραψεν, πέντε οὖσι τὸν ἀριθμόν, Ἐλέγχου καὶ ἀνατροπῆς τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως, ἐν δευτέρῳ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποθέσεως, ὅτι δὴ καὶ εἰς αὐτὸν ὑποδείγματα τῆς θε …

All forms of ἐλέγχω (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.