ἕξεις (hexeis)

ἕξεις is an Ancient Greek form of ἔχω, meaning “to have, hold, possess”.

It can also be a form of ἕξις, “state, condition, habit”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 236 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.64: … ἀπέχεσθαι, ἵνα τῆς αἰτίας ἀπαλλαγῇς. εἰ δὲ πάντως τυραννητέον, φροντίζειν ὅπως τὴν ἀλλοδαπὴν δύναμιν μείζονα ἕξεις τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἔτι τοι δεινός, μηδὲ σὺ ἐκποδών τινα ποιοῦ. Σόλων Ἐπιμενίδῃ “Οὔτε οἱ ἐμοὶ θεσμοὶ …

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 11.42: ἀλλʼ ἀφίκευσο ποθʼ ἁμέ, καὶ ἑξεῖς οὐδὲν ἔλασσον,

Aristophanes, Birds 21: ἡμᾶς ἔτʼ ἔξεις. οὐ γάρ ἐστʼ ἐνταῦθά τις

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.