ἔχαιρεν (echairen)

ἔχαιρεν is an Ancient Greek form of χαίρω, meaning “rejoice, be glad; (imper.) farewell”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 28.9: ὁ δὲ καὶ τούτοις ἔχαιρεν, ὅτι πολλῶν παρεσκευασμένων καὶ λαμπρῶν τὸ ἥδιστον αὐτὸς ἦν ἀπόλαυσμα καὶ θέαμα τοῖς παροῦσι, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς θ …

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 11.328: διαναστὰς δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ὕπνου ἔχαιρέν τε μεγάλως αὐτὸς καὶ τὸ χρηματισθὲν αὐτῷ πᾶσι μηνύσας καὶ ποιήσας ὅσα κατὰ τοὺς ὕπνους αὐτῷ παρηγγέλη τὴν τοῦ βασιλέως παρουσίαν ἐξεδέχετο.

All forms of χαίρω (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.