ἐχρῆν (echren)

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

Found 448 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.57.1: καὶ ὡς ἐπῆλθεν ἡ ἑορτή, Ἱππίας μὲν ἔξω ἐν τῷ Κεραμεικῷ καλουμένῳ μετὰ τῶν δορυφόρων διεκόσμει ὡς ἕκαστα ἐχρῆν τῆς πομπῆς προϊέναι, ὁ δὲ Ἁρμόδιος καὶ ὁ Ἀριστογείτων ἔχοντες ἤδη τὰ ἐγχειρίδια ἐς τὸ ἔργον προῇσαν.

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 19: … χῆμα οὔτε βάδισμα ὁρᾶν δυνάμενος; Ἀλλ' ἔμοιγε οὐ πρὸς τυφλοὺς ὁ λόγος, ὦ Λυκῖνε, οὐδέ μοι μέλει τῶν τοιούτων. Ἐχρῆν μέν, ὦ χρηστέ, κοινόν τι τὸ γνώρισμα εἶναι τῶν οὕτω μεγάλων καὶ ἅπασι χρησίμων. πλὴν εἰ δοκεῖ, οἱ μὲν ἔξω ἡμῖ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 40.24.2: ἄνδρες αὐτοὶ φονεύοντες ἐξέκαμον. οὕτω γὰρ δή (καὶ γὰρ νὺξ ἐγίγνετο καὶ πόρρω ποι ἀφιππεῦσαι αὐτοὺς ἐχρῆνʼ ἀπεχώρησαν· οὐδέποτε γὰρ πλησίοι οὐδὲ τοῖς ἀσθενεστάτοις στρατοπεδεύονται διὰ τὸ μηδεμιᾷ ταφρείᾳ χρῆσθαι καὶ …

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.