ἔστησαν (estesan)

ἔστησαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἵστημι, meaning “to make stand, set up; (mid./intrans.) to stand”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 189 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.54.1: τοιαῦτα τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἀποκριναμένων οἱ μὲν Κορίνθιοι τόν τε πλοῦν τὸν ἐπ’ οἴκου παρεσκευάζοντο καὶ τροπαῖον ἔστησαν ἐν τοῖς ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ Συβότοις· οἱ δὲ Κερκυραῖοι τά τε ναυάγια καὶ νεκροὺς ἀνείλοντο τὰ κατὰ σφᾶς ἐξενεχθέντα …

New Testament, Acts 6.13: ἔστησάν τε μάρτυρας ψευδεῖς λέγοντας Ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος οὐ παύεται λαλῶν ῥήματα κατὰ τοῦ τόπου τοῦ ἁγίου [τούτου] καὶ τοῦ νόμου,

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 31.289: … νίας ἕνεκεν, ἔπλασεν εἴδωλον, ὅπερ ἐκάλεσε Διόνυσον. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων κακῶν ἐπιθυμηταὶ τῶν ἰδίων παθῶν ἕστησαν εἴδωλα· τὰ πάθη γὰρ αὐτῶν θεοὺς ὠνόμασαν. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο παρὰ τοῖς αὐτῶν βωμοῖς ἡδυπαθεῖς εἰσιν ὀρχήσεις, πορν …

All forms of ἵστημι (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.