ἕλκει (helkei)

ἕλκει is an Ancient Greek form of ἕλκω, meaning “drag, draw, pull”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

It can also be a form of ἕλκος, “wound”.

Found 110 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.40: λεπράς, ἐφʼ ᾇ σπεύδων μέγα δίκτυον ἐς βόλον ἕλκει

Hippocrates, De capitis vulneribus 21: … πιγένοιτο κακὸν οὐδέν· λεπτὸν γὰρ τὸ λειπόμενον ἤδη γίνεται. τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ ἰῆσθαι χρὴ, ὡς ἂν δοκέῃ ξυμφέρειν τῷ ἕλκεϊ. πρίοντα δὲ χρὴ πυκινὰ ἐξαιρέειν τὸν πρίονα τῆς θερμασίης εἵνεκα τοῦ ὀστέου, καὶ ὕδατι ψυχρῷ ἐναποβάπτειν. θε …

All forms of ἕλκω (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.