ἔχων (echon)

ἔχων is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 3,977 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1169: ἄμφω χερσὶν ἔχων πέσε δόχμιος, ἄλλο δὲ πόντος

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 331: έχων ἀνῇξε μὲν ξίφους

Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno 6: … νος δανειστὴν ἐπιτίθης σεαυτῷ, φορτίον καὶ πλουτοῦντι δύσοιστον. πῶς οὖν διατραφῶ; τοῦτʼ ἐρωτᾷς, ἔχων χεῖρας, ἒχων πόδας, ἔχων φωνήν, ἄνθρωπος ὤν, τὸ φιλεῖν ἔστι καὶ φιλεῖσθαι καὶ τὸ χαρίζεσθαι καὶ τὸ εὐχαριστεῖν; γράμματα δ …

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.