ἔχειν (echein)

ἔχειν is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 4,984 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.28.4: οἱ δὲ Κορίνθιοι ἀπεκρίναντο αὐτοῖς, ἢν τάς τε ναῦς καὶ τοὺς βαρβάρους ἀπὸ Ἐπιδάμνου ἀπαγάγωσι, βουλεύσεσθαι· πρότερον δ’ οὐ καλῶς ἔχειν τοὺς μὲν πολιορκεῖσθαι, αὐτοὺς δὲ δικάζεσθαι.

Plutarch, De fraterno amore 13: … εὐφυΐας, ὡς ἀνʼ ἐχινόποδας καὶ ἀνὰ τρηχεῖαν ὄνωνιν φύονται μαλακῶν ἄνθεα λευκοΐων. ταῦτα τοίνυν ὁ δοκῶν πλέον ἒχειν ἐν ἄλλοις, ἂν μὴ κολούῃ μηδʼ ἐπικρύπτῃ μηδὲ πάντων ὥσπερ ἐν ἀγῶνι τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἐξωθῇ τῶν πρωτείων, ἀλλʼ ἀνθυπε …

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.13: … νετο ὁ Κῦρος ἐφʼ ἅρματος ὀρθὴν ἔχων τὴν τιάραν καὶ χιτῶνα πορφυροῦν μεσόλευκον ʽἄλλῳ δʼ οὐκ ἔξεστι μεσόλευκον ἔχειν̓, καὶ περὶ τοῖς σκέλεσιν ἀναξυρίδας ὑσγινοβαφεῖς, καὶ κάνδυν ὁλοπόρφυρον. εἶχε δὲ καὶ διάδημα περὶ τῇ τιάρᾳ· κ …

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.