ἔχεσθαι (echesthai)

ἔχεσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 147 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.2.4: θέμενοι δὲ ἐς τὴν ἀγορὰν τὰ ὅπλα τοῖς μὲν ἐπαγαγομένοις οὐκ ἐπείθοντο ὥστε εὐθὺς ἔργου ἔχεσθαι καὶ ἰέναι ἐπὶ τὰς οἰκίας τῶν ἐχθρῶν, γνώμην δ’ ἐποιοῦντο κηρύγμασί τε χρήσασθαι ἐπιτηδείοις καὶ ἐς ξύμβασιν μ …

Plutarch, Crassus 17.4: … ἁμαρτεῖν ἔδοξεν ὁ Κράσσος μετά γε τὴν στρατείαν αὐτήν μέγιστον ἁμάρτημα τῶν γενομένων, ὅτι πρόσω χωρεῖν δέον ἔχεσθαί τε Βαβυλῶνος καὶ Σελευκείας, δυσμενῶν ἀεὶ Πάρθοις πόλεων, χρόνον ἐνέδωκε τοῖς πολεμίοις παρασκευῆς.

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.