ἔχεις (echeis)

ἔχεις is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 853 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.70: … ενός ποτε ἀνεχώρει· τοῦ δʼ ἐπιδιώκοντος εἰπόντος, τί φεύγεις; ὅτι, φησί, τοῦ μὲν κακῶς λέγειν σὺ τὴν ἐξουσίαν ἔχεις, τοῦ δὲ μὴ ἀκούειν ἐγώ. εἰπόντος τινὸς ὡς ἀεὶ τοὺς φιλοσόφους βλέποι παρὰ ταῖς τῶν πλουσίων θύραις, καὶ γὰρ κ …

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi deorum 10.3: … ον, καὶ ὅλως εὐδαίμων ἔσῃ. Ἤν δὲ παίζειν ἐπιθυμήσω, τίς συμπαίξεταί μοι; ἐν γὰρ τῇ Ἴδῃ πολλοὶ ἡλικιῶται ἦμεν. Ἔχεις κἀνταῦθα τὸν συμπαιξόμενόν σοι τουτονὶ τὸν Ἔρωτα καὶ ἀστραγάλους μάλα πολλούς. θάρρει μόνον καὶ φαιδρὸς ἴσθι …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 12.6.2: … τὰς πολιτικὰς ὀρρωδοῦσι ταραχάς. καὶ αὗται γὰρ ἅμα τῷ κατα- λυθῆναι τοὺς ὑπερορίους πολέμους χαλεπαὶ καὶ συν- εχεῖς ἐξ ἁπάσης προφάσεως ἀνίσταντο.

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.