ἔσθʼ (esth)

ἔσθʼ is an Ancient Greek form of εἰμί, meaning “to be, exist”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 463 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.64: … ι, οὐκ ἂν φθάνοις. ἐπιβουλεύσειε δʼ ἄν τις καὶ τῶν ἀνυπόπτων, ὁ μὲν δεδιὼς περὶ αὑτῷ, ὁ δὲ σοῦ καταγνούς, οὐκ ἔσθʼ ὅ τι οὐκ ὀρρωδοῦντος· κἂν τῇ πόλει χάριν κατάθοιτο ἐξευρών, ἢν μὴ ὕποπτος εἴης. ἄριστον μὲν οὖν ἀπέχεσθαι, ἵν …

Euripides, Alcestis 113: ἔσθ’ ὅποι τις αἴας

Euripides, Heracleidae 658: οὐκ ἴσμεν ἡμεῖς ταῦτα· τίς γάρ ἐσθʼ ὅδε;

All forms of εἰμί (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.