ἔστʼ (est)

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

Found 597 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.694: νῦν γὰρ δὴ παρὰ ποσσὶν ἐπήβολός ἐστʼ ἀλεωρή,

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 7.67: χἁ στιβὰς ἐσσεῖται πεπυκασμένα ἕστʼ ἐπὶ πᾶχυν

Euripides, Cyclops 321: οὐδ’ οἶδ’ ὅ τι Ζεύς ἐστ’ ἐμοῦ κρείσσων θεός.

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.