ἔχει (echei)

ἔχει is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 5,570 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.275: οὐδʼ ἔχει ἐκφλύξαι τόσσον γόον, ὅσσον ὀρεχθεῖ·

Plutarch, De esu carnium II 5: … ὁ δὲ ἀνάσχου· τί γὰρ εἰ συγγενοῦς ἢ θεοῦ τινος ἐνταῦθα ψυχὴ κεχώρηκεν; ἴσος γε, ὦ θεοί, καὶ ὅμοιος ὁ κίνδυνος ἕχει, ἂν ἀπειθῶ φαγεῖν κρέας, ἂν ἀπιστῶ φονεῦσαι τέκνον ἢ ἕτερον οἰκεῖον;

Lucian of Samosata, Hermotimus 37: … ἱερῶν ἀπολωλέναι. δεήσει δή που ἀμφοτέρους ἐρευνηθῆναι αὐτοὺς ὁπότερος ὑπὸ κόλπου ἔχει τὴν φιάλην. Καὶ μάλα. Ἔχει δὲ πάντως ὁ ἕτερος. Πῶς γὰρ οὔ, εἴ γε ἀπόλωλεν; Οὐκοῦν ἂν παρὰ τῷ προτέρῳ εὕρῃς αὐτήν, οὐκέτι τὸν ἕτερον ἀποδ …

All forms of ἔχω (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.