ἦλθον (elthon)

ἦλθον is an Ancient Greek form of ἔρχομαι, meaning “to come, go”. It is the 3rd person plural aorist active indicative.

Found 821 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1404: Αἰήταο βαρεῖαι ὑπὸ φρένας ἦλθον ἀνῖαι.

Sophocles, Philoctetes 343: ἦλθόν με νηὶ ποικιλοστόλῳ μέτα

New Testament, John 7.45: Ἦλθον οὖν οἱ ὑπηρέται πρὸς τοὺς ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ Φαρισαίους, καὶ εἶπον αὐτοῖς ἐκεῖνοι Διὰ τί οὐκ ἠγάγετε αὐτόν;

All forms of ἔρχομαι (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.