ἔστω (esto)

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

Found 1,386 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.82: ἠπεδαναί· καὶ μή τις ἀμοιβαίη χάρις ἔστω.

New Testament, 2 Corinthians 12.16: Ἔστω δέ, ἐγὼ οὐ κατεβάρησα ὑμᾶς· ἀλλὰ ὑπάρχων πανοῦργος δόλῳ ὑμᾶς ἔλαβον.

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.