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ἔχητε (echete)

ἔχητε is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the nominative dual feminine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of χάω, “yawn, gape”.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Aristophanes, Birds 1116: ὅταν ἔχητε χλανίδα λευκήν, τότε μάλισθʼ οὕτω δίκην

Epictetus, Discourses 1.29.27: ἀλλʼ ἔξελθε πάλιν ἀπὸ τῆς φυλακῆς. εἰ μηκέτι χρείαν ἔχητέ μου ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ, ἐξέρχομαι· ἂν πάλιν σχῆτε, εἰσελεύσομαι.

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.