ἕλη (hele)

ἕλη is an Ancient Greek form of αἱρέω, meaning “to take, seize, capture; (mid.) choose”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active subjunctive.

Found 106 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.11.3: … ν τεῖχος ἁπλοῦν, ὥστε μὴ εἶναι ἔτι περιτειχίσαι αὐτούς, ἢν μή τις τὸ παρατείχισμα τοῦτο πολλῇ στρατιᾷ ἐπελθὼν ἕλῃ.

Plutarch, Fabius Maximus 6.2: ἔστι δʼ ἡ χώρα τὰ μὲν ἄλλα περιστεφὴς ὄρεσιν αὐλὼν δʼ ἀναπέπταται πρὸς τὴν θάλατταν, ἔνθα τὰ ἕλη καταδίδωσι τοῦ ποταμοῦ περιχεομένου, καὶ θῖνας ἄμμου βαθείας ἔχει, καὶ τελευτᾷ πρὸς αἰγιαλὸν κυματώδη καὶ δύσ …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 4.22·2: … ὶ διέφθειρεν ἅπαντας, καὶ ἃ ἔφερον διήρπασε ξύμπαντα. διῆγον δ’ Ἰωνάθης καὶ Σίμων μετὰ τόν περὶ αὐτοὺς εἰς τὰ ἔλη του ποταμοῦ. Βακχίδης δὲ φρουρὰν εἰς Ἰουδαίαν καταλιπὼν πρὸς τὸν Δημήτριον ἐπανῆλθεν. ἠρεμοῦντος δ’ ἔκτοτε το …

All forms of αἱρέω (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.