ἔλαβες (elabes)

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

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Ion 1454: ἰὼ γύναι, πόθεν πόθεν ἔλαβες ἐμὸν

Plato, Laws 6.772·2: δεῖ γάρ, ὥς φησιν Κλεινίας, ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ νόμου προοίμιον οἰκεῖον ἑκάστῳ προτιθέναι. κάλλιστα, ὦ ξένε, διεμνημόνευσας, ἔλαβές τε τοῦ λόγου καιρὸν καὶ μάλʼ ἐμοὶ δοκοῦντʼ εἶναι σύμμετρον.

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.