Strong G5463χαίρω
to rejoice
- Transliteration
- chairō
- Pronunciation
- khah'ee-ro
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary verb; to be full of cheer that is calmly happy or well off; impersonal especially as a salutation (on meeting or parting) be well: - farewell be glad God speed greeting hail joy (-fully) rejoice.
Detailed definition
χαίρω
[in LXX for שָׂמַח (Gen.45:16, al.), גִּיל (Pro.2:14, al.), etc.; inf., as greeting (see infr.), Isa.48:22 57:21 שָׁלוֹם), 1Ma.10:18, 2Ma.1:1 and frequently in these books;]
1. to rejoice, be glad: Mrk.14:11, Luk.15:5, 32 19:6, 37 22:5 23:8, Jhn.8:56 20:20, Act.5:41 8:39 11:23 13:48, 2Co.6:10 7:7 13:9, Php.2:17, 28, Col.2:5, 1Th.5:16, 1Pe.4:13, 3Jn.3; χ. καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθαι, Mat.5:12; κ. σκιρτᾶν, Luk.6:23; opposite to κλαίειν, Rom.12:15, 1Co.7:30; to κλαίειν κ. θρηνεῖν Jhn.16:20; to λύπην ἔχειν, Jhn.16:22; with cogn. accusative, χ. χαρὰν μεγάλην, Mat.2:10; χαρᾷ χ. (B1., § 38, 3; Dalman, Words, 34 f.), Jhn.3:29; ἡ χαρὰ ᾗ χαίρομεν, 1Th.3:9; with prep. (Bl., 38, 2), ἐπί, with dative (simple dative in cl.), Mat.18:13, Luk.1:14 13:17, Act.15:31, Rom.16:19, 1Co.13:6 16:17, 2Co.7:13, Rev.11:10; διά, Jhn.3:29 11:15, 1Th.3:9; ἐν, Php.1:18; ἀπό, 2Co.2:3; with accusative (Dem.), Php.2:18; before ὅτι, Jhn.14:28, 2Co.7:9 7:16, 2Jn.4; ἐν τούτῳ ὅτι, Luk.10:20; with dative, Rom.12:1; ἐν κυρίῳ, Php.4:10
2. In salutations, imperat., χαῖρε, χαίρετε,
__(a) at meeting, hail: Mat.26:49 27:29, Mrk.15:18, Luk.1:28, Jhn.19:3; pl., Mat.28:9; so χχαίρειν λέγω, to give greeting, II Jn 11; in letters, χαίρειν (sc. λέγει; 81, 1), greeting: Act.15:23 23:26 Jas.1:1;
__(b) at parting, farewell: 2Co.13:11;
__(with) on other occasions, be of good cheer: ἐν κυρίῳ, Php.3:1 4:4 (cf. συν-χαίρω).†
(AS)
[in LXX for שָׂמַח (Gen.45:16, al.), גִּיל (Pro.2:14, al.), etc.; inf., as greeting (see infr.), Isa.48:22 57:21 שָׁלוֹם), 1Ma.10:18, 2Ma.1:1 and frequently in these books;]
1. to rejoice, be glad: Mrk.14:11, Luk.15:5, 32 19:6, 37 22:5 23:8, Jhn.8:56 20:20, Act.5:41 8:39 11:23 13:48, 2Co.6:10 7:7 13:9, Php.2:17, 28, Col.2:5, 1Th.5:16, 1Pe.4:13, 3Jn.3; χ. καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθαι, Mat.5:12; κ. σκιρτᾶν, Luk.6:23; opposite to κλαίειν, Rom.12:15, 1Co.7:30; to κλαίειν κ. θρηνεῖν Jhn.16:20; to λύπην ἔχειν, Jhn.16:22; with cogn. accusative, χ. χαρὰν μεγάλην, Mat.2:10; χαρᾷ χ. (B1., § 38, 3; Dalman, Words, 34 f.), Jhn.3:29; ἡ χαρὰ ᾗ χαίρομεν, 1Th.3:9; with prep. (Bl., 38, 2), ἐπί, with dative (simple dative in cl.), Mat.18:13, Luk.1:14 13:17, Act.15:31, Rom.16:19, 1Co.13:6 16:17, 2Co.7:13, Rev.11:10; διά, Jhn.3:29 11:15, 1Th.3:9; ἐν, Php.1:18; ἀπό, 2Co.2:3; with accusative (Dem.), Php.2:18; before ὅτι, Jhn.14:28, 2Co.7:9 7:16, 2Jn.4; ἐν τούτῳ ὅτι, Luk.10:20; with dative, Rom.12:1; ἐν κυρίῳ, Php.4:10
2. In salutations, imperat., χαῖρε, χαίρετε,
__(a) at meeting, hail: Mat.26:49 27:29, Mrk.15:18, Luk.1:28, Jhn.19:3; pl., Mat.28:9; so χχαίρειν λέγω, to give greeting, II Jn 11; in letters, χαίρειν (sc. λέγει; 81, 1), greeting: Act.15:23 23:26 Jas.1:1;
__(b) at parting, farewell: 2Co.13:11;
__(with) on other occasions, be of good cheer: ἐν κυρίῳ, Php.3:1 4:4 (cf. συν-χαίρω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5463 appears in 68 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- rejoice36
- be12
- hail6
- joy5
- greeting3
- rejoiceth3
- glad2
- god2
- ye2
- do1
- farewell1
- i1
First verses
- Matthew 2:10When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
- Matthew 5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
- Matthew 18:13And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
- Matthew 26:49And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
- Matthew 27:29And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
- Matthew 28:9And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
- Mark 14:11And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
- Mark 15:18And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
- Luke 1:14And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
- Luke 1:28And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
- Luke 6:23Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
- Luke 10:20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
- Luke 13:17And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
- Luke 15:5And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
- Luke 15:32It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
- Luke 19:6And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
- Luke 19:37And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
- Luke 22:5And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
- Luke 23:8And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
- John 3:29He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
χαίρω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.191, etc.)]; 3rd.pers. plural imperative χαιρόντων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 575)]: imperfect, Epic dialect χαῖρον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.156)], Ionic dialect χαίρεσκον [Refs (18.259)]: future χαιρήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (20.363, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.128, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 64, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.101, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 5.20.6)]; Epic dialect reduplicate infinitive κεχᾰρησέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.98)]; later χᾰρῶ variant in [NT (NT.Rev.11.10)]: aorist ἐχαίρησα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 25)]: perfect κεχάρηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 764)], participle -ηκώς[Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.42, etc., _Epic dialect_ _accusative_ κεχᾰρηότα, _plural_ -ότας, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.312, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 77:)] —middle (in same sense), χαίρομαι, noted as a barbarism in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 291 (see. Scholia), but found in “BCH” 36.622 (Perinthus, written χέρ-), 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “Problemata - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 1.20, +others:)]future χᾰρήσομαι Ps.-[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philopatr.” 24, (συγ-) 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 30.18.1, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 31.15)]; Doric dialect χαρησοῦμαι [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus “Ep.” 3.7; χᾰροῦμαι LXX Zech.4.10, (κατα-)LXX.Pro.1.26)]; Epic dialect κεχᾰρήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.266)]: aorist 1 participle χαιρησάμενος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“BGU” 742 ii 3 (2nd c.AD))]: Epic dialect aorist 1 χήρατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.270; ἐχ- 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.509, etc.)]; participle χηράμενος [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.198 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus))]: Epic dialect reduplicate aorist 2, 3rd.pers. plural κεχάροντο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.600 (χάροντο 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 6.315))]; optative 3rd.pers. singular and plural κεχάροιτο, -οίατο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.249, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.256:)] —passive (in same sense), aorist 2 ἐχάρην [ᾰ] [Refs (7.54)], etc., Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular χάρη [Refs (5.682, 13.609)]; subjunctive χᾰρῇς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 606c; _optative_ χᾰρείη 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.481)]; infinitive χᾰρῆναι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 164)]; participle χᾰρείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.541, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 118, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 6(5).10, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 981 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; perfect κεχάρημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Bacchum” 7.10, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 200 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 389 (_anapaest meter_))]; participle κεχαρμένος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1122, “Tr.” 529 (Lyric poetry), “Cyc.” 367 (Lyric poetry):)]pluperfect 3rd.pers. singular and plural κεχάρητο, -ηντο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 65, “hymnus ad Cererem” 458)]:—rejoice, be glad, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.111, 21.347, etc.; γραῦς ἥδε οἰνοφόρος κεχαρημένη ὧδε κάθηται “IG” 12(8).679 (Scyros, 2nd c.BC): χ. θυμῷ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.191, +others; ἐν θυμῷ 24.491, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.411; φρεσὶν ᾗσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.609; φρένα 6.481)]; χ. νόῳ to rejoice in wardly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.78; χαίρει δέ μοι ἦτορ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.647; αὐτὰρ ἐμὸν κῆρ χ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.260; χ. καὶ γελᾶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1300; ἥδομαι καὶ χαίρομαι κεὐφραίνομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 291)]; opposed to λυπεῖσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 266.3, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 555, etc.)]; opposed to ἀλγεῖν, [Refs ([prev. author] “Tr.” 1119.)] —Constr.,
1 with dative of things, rejoice at, take pleasure in a thing, νίκῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.312; φήμῃ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.35; δώρῳ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 358; μόλπᾳ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.5, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1070, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 238d, etc.: with _dative_ _person_, χαῖρε.. ἀνδρὶ δικαίῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.52)]; with a participle added, χάρη δ᾽ ἄρα οἱ προσιόντι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.682, compare 24.706, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.463: with Preps., χαίρειν ἐπί τινι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 926, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.35, “Cyr.” 8.4.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.30, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 739d, etc.; πρὸς τοῖς παιδικοῖς 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 327)]; with a participle added, ἐπ᾽ ἐξεργασμένοις κακοῖσι χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1040, compare 1033: rarely ἔν τινι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 996 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1119: also with _dative_ modi, χ. γέλωτι)] express one's joy by laughter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.33.)]
1.b of a plant, χαίρει ὑφάμμοις χωρίοις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.5.2; also ἡ κύστις χ. τῇ χολῇ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.646.)]
2 rarely with accusative, with a participle added, χαίρω δέ σ᾽ εὐτυχοῦντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 390; τοὺς γὰρ εὐσεβεῖς θεοὶ θνῄσκοντας οὐ χ. [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1340)]; χαίρω σ᾽ [ἐλθόντα] [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 673)] (this usage is said to be Oropian, [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 808.4).)]
2.b with a neuter adjective, ταὐτὰ λυπεῖσθαι καὶ ταὐτὰ χαίρειν τοῖς πολλοῖς [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.292: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ἁπλῆν χαίρειν ἡδονήν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1154b26; χ. ἀνδραπόδων τινὰ χαράν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1091e.)]
3 with participle, χαίρω.. τὸν μῦθον ἀκούσας I rejoice at having heard, am glad to hear, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.185, compare 7.54, 11.73; χαίρουσιν βίοτον νήποινον ἔδοντες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.377, compare 12.380, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 55; χαίρω.. κόμπον ἱείς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.49; χαίρεις ὁρῶν φῶς, πατέρα δ᾽ οὐ χαίρειν δοκεῖ; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 691; χαίρω φειδόμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 247; θωπευόμενος χαίρεις [prev. author] “Eq.” 1116 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 191e, etc.)]
3.b with participle present, delight in doing, to be wont to do, χρεώμενοι χαίρουσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.236, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 449, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 764, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 318d, 346c, 358a.)]
4 χαίρειν ὅττι or ὅτι.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.51, 526, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.46)]; ἐχάρην καὶ ἐθρασυνάμην ὅτι ἔμαθον.. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “fragment” 42)]; χ. οὕνεκα.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.200.)]
II with negative, especially with future, οὐ χαιρήσεις thou wilt or shalt not rejoice, i.e. thou shalt not go unpunished, shalt repent it, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 64; οὐ χαιρήσετον [prev. author] “Eq.” 235; so οὐδέ τιν᾽ οἴω Τρώων χαιρήσειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.363, compare 15.98, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.249, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 186)]; ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὣς Κῦρός γε χαιρήσει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.128)]; with an interrogative, σὺ.. χαιρήσειν νομίζει; [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 51)]: rarely with other tenses, ὅπως ἂν μὴ χαίρωσιν. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.299; οὐκ ἐχαίρησεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 25: for a similar use of the)]participle, see below [Refs (IV. 2.)]
III frequently in imperative χαῖρε, dual χαίρετον, plural χαίρετε, as a form of greeting,
III.1 at meeting, hail, welcome (especially in the morning, accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 69.18, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Laps.”), 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.197, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.229, etc.; χαῖρε, ξεῖνε, παρ᾽ ἄμμι φιλήσεαι 1.123; strengthened, οὖλέ τε, καὶ μάλα χαῖρε, θεοὶ δέ τοι ὄλβια δοῖεν 24.402; χαῖρέ μοι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.19, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1137; repeated, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 996, 1014 (both Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 91, etc.; χαῖρ᾽ ὡς μέγιστα, χαῖρε [prev. author] “Ph.” 462)]; in greeting one's native land, the sun, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 508, 22, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1453 (_anapaest meter_).)]
III.1.b sometimes implied in the use of χαίρω, κῆρυξ Ἀχαιῶν, χαῖρε.. Answ. χαίρω I accept the greeting, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 538)]; νῦν πᾶσι χαίρω, νῦν με πᾶς ἀσπάζεται I hear the word χαῖρε from all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 596: so in)]infinitive, τὸ χαίρειν uncertain reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 164e)]; χαίρειν δὲ τὸν κήρυκα προὐννέπω I bid him welcome, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 227; προσειπών τινα χ. οὐκ ἀντιπροσερρήθη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.13.1)]; but χαίρειν τἄλλ᾽ ἐγώ σ᾽ ἐφίεμαι I bid thee have thy pleasure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 112.)]
III.1.c infinitive alone at the beginning of letters, Κῦρος Κυαζάρῃ χαίρειν (i.e. λέγει) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.27, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.1)]; used by Alexander the Great to Phocion as a mark of respect, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Duris Epigrammaticus 51J.)]
III.2 at leavetaking, fare-thee-well, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.205, 13.59, 15.151; χαῖρε πόλλ᾽ ὦδελφέ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 164; _plural_, χαίρετε πολλάκι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.144)]; frequently put into the mouth of the dying, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 863, “Tr.” 921, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 116d, etc.)]: hence in sepulchral inscriptions, [Refs (“IG” 7.203, etc.)]
III.2.b hence, imperative χαιρέτω, χαιρόντων, have done with.., away with.., εἴτ᾽ ἐγένετο ἄνθρωπος εἴτ᾽ ἐστὶ δαίμων, χαιρέτω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.96; χαιρέτω βουλεύματα τὰ πρόσθεν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1044, χαιρόντων πόνοι [prev. author] “HF” 575; compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 199a, “Lg.” 636d, 886d.)]
III.2.c ἐᾶν χαίρειν τινά or τι dismiss from one's mind, put away, renounce, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.23, 9.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1187, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 63e, “Prt.” 348a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.23, etc.; συχνὰ χ. ἐᾶν τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 59b; ἐλευθερίαν μακρὰ χ. ἐᾶν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Apol.” 3; μακρὰ χ. εἰποῦσα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 12.1; πόλλα μοι τὰν Πωλυανάκτιδα παῖδα χαίρην 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 86; τὴν Κύπριν πόλλ᾽ ἐγὼ χαίρειν λέγω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 113, compare 1059, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 188a; χ. κελεύων πολλὰ τοὺς Ἀχαρνέας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 200; εἰπεῖν χαίρειν τινά “Ath.Mitt.” 56.131 (Milet., Hellenistic), compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 50; χαίρειν προσαγορεύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 322 (_metaphorically_ in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 771a); χαίρειν προσειπεῖν 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 308: less frequently with _dative_ _person_ (never with ἐᾶν χ.), πολλὰ χαίρειν ξυμφοραῖς καταξιῶ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 572 (nisi to be read ξυμφοράς); φράσαι.. χαίρειν Ἀθηναίοισι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 609 (troch.); πολλὰ εἰπόντα χ. τῷ ἀληθεῖ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 272e, compare “Phd.” 64c, “R.” 406d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.1.31 (codices, perhaps ἀλλήλους), 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator)]ad Them.255a.
III.3 on other occasions, as in comforting, be of good cheer, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.408; at meals, 4.60, 18.122)]; χαῖρε, γύναι, φιλότητι good luck be on our union,[Refs (11.248; εὐχωλῇς χαίρετε 13.358: χαῖρε ἀοιδῇ “Hymni Homerici” 9.7.)]
IV participle χαίρων glad, joyful, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.446, etc.; χαίροντα φίλην ἐς πατρίδ᾽ ἔπεμπον εἰς Ἰθάκην 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.461; χαίροντι φέρειν.. χαίρων 17.83)]; λυπούμενοι καὶ χαίροντες in sorrow and in joy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1356a16)]: also perfect participle κεχαρηκώς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.27, 42, etc.)]
IV.2 joined with another Verb, safe and sound, with impunity, χαίροντα ἀπαλλάσσειν [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 69, compare 9.106, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.153)]; more frequently with a negative, οὐ χαίρων to one's cost, οὐ χαίροντες γέλωτα ἐμὲ θήσεσθε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.29; οὔ τι χαίρων.. ἐρεῖς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 363, compare “Ant.” 759, “Ph.” 1299, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 398, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 563, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 510d; οὐ γὰπ.. χαίρων τις.. τοὐμὸν ἀλγυνεῖ κέαρ 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 90; οὔτε χαίροντες ἂν ἀπαλλάζαιτε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.32; also οὔτι χαιρήσων γε σύ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 186; compare above 11.)]
IV.3 in the same sense as imperative (above [Refs (111), σὺ δέ μοι χαίρων ἀφίκοιο)]fare-thee-well, and may'st thou arrive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.128, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.163)]; χαίροισ᾽ ἔρχεο go thy way rejoicing, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 23.7)]; ἀλλ᾽ ἑρπέτω χαίρουσα let her go with a benison, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 819)]; χαίρων ἴθι fare-thee-well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 813, “Ph.” 921; χαίρουσα.. στεῖχε [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1440.)]
IV.4 τὸ χαῖρον τῆς ψυχῆς [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.136c, 1089e.)]
V Astrology texts, of a planet, occupy the position appropriate to another of its own αἵρεσις, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Serapio Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(4).230, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 51, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 63.6, 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 2.348)]. (Cf. Sanskrit háryati 'take pleasure in', Umbr. heriest 'will wish', Latin horior.)
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.191, etc.)]; 3rd.pers. plural imperative χαιρόντων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 575)]: imperfect, Epic dialect χαῖρον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.156)], Ionic dialect χαίρεσκον [Refs (18.259)]: future χαιρήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (20.363, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.128, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 64, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.101, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 5.20.6)]; Epic dialect reduplicate infinitive κεχᾰρησέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.98)]; later χᾰρῶ variant in [NT (NT.Rev.11.10)]: aorist ἐχαίρησα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 25)]: perfect κεχάρηκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 764)], participle -ηκώς[Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.42, etc., _Epic dialect_ _accusative_ κεχᾰρηότα, _plural_ -ότας, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.312, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 77:)] —middle (in same sense), χαίρομαι, noted as a barbarism in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 291 (see. Scholia), but found in “BCH” 36.622 (Perinthus, written χέρ-), 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “Problemata - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 1.20, +others:)]future χᾰρήσομαι Ps.-[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philopatr.” 24, (συγ-) 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 30.18.1, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 31.15)]; Doric dialect χαρησοῦμαι [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus “Ep.” 3.7; χᾰροῦμαι LXX Zech.4.10, (κατα-)LXX.Pro.1.26)]; Epic dialect κεχᾰρήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.266)]: aorist 1 participle χαιρησάμενος [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“BGU” 742 ii 3 (2nd c.AD))]: Epic dialect aorist 1 χήρατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.270; ἐχ- 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.509, etc.)]; participle χηράμενος [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.198 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus))]: Epic dialect reduplicate aorist 2, 3rd.pers. plural κεχάροντο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.600 (χάροντο 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 6.315))]; optative 3rd.pers. singular and plural κεχάροιτο, -οίατο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.249, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.256:)] —passive (in same sense), aorist 2 ἐχάρην [ᾰ] [Refs (7.54)], etc., Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular χάρη [Refs (5.682, 13.609)]; subjunctive χᾰρῇς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 606c; _optative_ χᾰρείη 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.481)]; infinitive χᾰρῆναι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 164)]; participle χᾰρείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.541, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 118, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 6(5).10, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 981 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; perfect κεχάρημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Bacchum” 7.10, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 200 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 389 (_anapaest meter_))]; participle κεχαρμένος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1122, “Tr.” 529 (Lyric poetry), “Cyc.” 367 (Lyric poetry):)]pluperfect 3rd.pers. singular and plural κεχάρητο, -ηντο, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 65, “hymnus ad Cererem” 458)]:—rejoice, be glad, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.111, 21.347, etc.; γραῦς ἥδε οἰνοφόρος κεχαρημένη ὧδε κάθηται “IG” 12(8).679 (Scyros, 2nd c.BC): χ. θυμῷ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.191, +others; ἐν θυμῷ 24.491, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.411; φρεσὶν ᾗσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.609; φρένα 6.481)]; χ. νόῳ to rejoice in wardly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.78; χαίρει δέ μοι ἦτορ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.647; αὐτὰρ ἐμὸν κῆρ χ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.260; χ. καὶ γελᾶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1300; ἥδομαι καὶ χαίρομαι κεὐφραίνομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 291)]; opposed to λυπεῖσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 266.3, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 555, etc.)]; opposed to ἀλγεῖν, [Refs ([prev. author] “Tr.” 1119.)] —Constr.,
1 with dative of things, rejoice at, take pleasure in a thing, νίκῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.312; φήμῃ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.35; δώρῳ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 358; μόλπᾳ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.5, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1070, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 238d, etc.: with _dative_ _person_, χαῖρε.. ἀνδρὶ δικαίῳ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.52)]; with a participle added, χάρη δ᾽ ἄρα οἱ προσιόντι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.682, compare 24.706, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.463: with Preps., χαίρειν ἐπί τινι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 926, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.35, “Cyr.” 8.4.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.30, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 739d, etc.; πρὸς τοῖς παιδικοῖς 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 327)]; with a participle added, ἐπ᾽ ἐξεργασμένοις κακοῖσι χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1040, compare 1033: rarely ἔν τινι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 996 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1119: also with _dative_ modi, χ. γέλωτι)] express one's joy by laughter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.33.)]
1.b of a plant, χαίρει ὑφάμμοις χωρίοις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.5.2; also ἡ κύστις χ. τῇ χολῇ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.646.)]
2 rarely with accusative, with a participle added, χαίρω δέ σ᾽ εὐτυχοῦντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 390; τοὺς γὰρ εὐσεβεῖς θεοὶ θνῄσκοντας οὐ χ. [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1340)]; χαίρω σ᾽ [ἐλθόντα] [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 673)] (this usage is said to be Oropian, [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 808.4).)]
2.b with a neuter adjective, ταὐτὰ λυπεῖσθαι καὶ ταὐτὰ χαίρειν τοῖς πολλοῖς [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.292: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ἁπλῆν χαίρειν ἡδονήν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1154b26; χ. ἀνδραπόδων τινὰ χαράν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1091e.)]
3 with participle, χαίρω.. τὸν μῦθον ἀκούσας I rejoice at having heard, am glad to hear, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.185, compare 7.54, 11.73; χαίρουσιν βίοτον νήποινον ἔδοντες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.377, compare 12.380, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 55; χαίρω.. κόμπον ἱείς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.49; χαίρεις ὁρῶν φῶς, πατέρα δ᾽ οὐ χαίρειν δοκεῖ; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 691; χαίρω φειδόμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 247; θωπευόμενος χαίρεις [prev. author] “Eq.” 1116 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 191e, etc.)]
3.b with participle present, delight in doing, to be wont to do, χρεώμενοι χαίρουσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.236, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 449, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 764, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 318d, 346c, 358a.)]
4 χαίρειν ὅττι or ὅτι.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.51, 526, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.46)]; ἐχάρην καὶ ἐθρασυνάμην ὅτι ἔμαθον.. [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus “fragment” 42)]; χ. οὕνεκα.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.200.)]
II with negative, especially with future, οὐ χαιρήσεις thou wilt or shalt not rejoice, i.e. thou shalt not go unpunished, shalt repent it, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 64; οὐ χαιρήσετον [prev. author] “Eq.” 235; so οὐδέ τιν᾽ οἴω Τρώων χαιρήσειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.363, compare 15.98, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.249, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 186)]; ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὣς Κῦρός γε χαιρήσει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.128)]; with an interrogative, σὺ.. χαιρήσειν νομίζει; [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 51)]: rarely with other tenses, ὅπως ἂν μὴ χαίρωσιν. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.299; οὐκ ἐχαίρησεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 25: for a similar use of the)]participle, see below [Refs (IV. 2.)]
III frequently in imperative χαῖρε, dual χαίρετον, plural χαίρετε, as a form of greeting,
III.1 at meeting, hail, welcome (especially in the morning, accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 69.18, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Laps.”), 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.197, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.229, etc.; χαῖρε, ξεῖνε, παρ᾽ ἄμμι φιλήσεαι 1.123; strengthened, οὖλέ τε, καὶ μάλα χαῖρε, θεοὶ δέ τοι ὄλβια δοῖεν 24.402; χαῖρέ μοι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.19, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1137; repeated, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 996, 1014 (both Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 91, etc.; χαῖρ᾽ ὡς μέγιστα, χαῖρε [prev. author] “Ph.” 462)]; in greeting one's native land, the sun, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 508, 22, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1453 (_anapaest meter_).)]
III.1.b sometimes implied in the use of χαίρω, κῆρυξ Ἀχαιῶν, χαῖρε.. Answ. χαίρω I accept the greeting, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 538)]; νῦν πᾶσι χαίρω, νῦν με πᾶς ἀσπάζεται I hear the word χαῖρε from all, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 596: so in)]infinitive, τὸ χαίρειν uncertain reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Charmides” 164e)]; χαίρειν δὲ τὸν κήρυκα προὐννέπω I bid him welcome, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 227; προσειπών τινα χ. οὐκ ἀντιπροσερρήθη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.13.1)]; but χαίρειν τἄλλ᾽ ἐγώ σ᾽ ἐφίεμαι I bid thee have thy pleasure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 112.)]
III.1.c infinitive alone at the beginning of letters, Κῦρος Κυαζάρῃ χαίρειν (i.e. λέγει) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.27, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.1)]; used by Alexander the Great to Phocion as a mark of respect, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Duris Epigrammaticus 51J.)]
III.2 at leavetaking, fare-thee-well, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.205, 13.59, 15.151; χαῖρε πόλλ᾽ ὦδελφέ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 164; _plural_, χαίρετε πολλάκι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.144)]; frequently put into the mouth of the dying, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 863, “Tr.” 921, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 116d, etc.)]: hence in sepulchral inscriptions, [Refs (“IG” 7.203, etc.)]
III.2.b hence, imperative χαιρέτω, χαιρόντων, have done with.., away with.., εἴτ᾽ ἐγένετο ἄνθρωπος εἴτ᾽ ἐστὶ δαίμων, χαιρέτω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.96; χαιρέτω βουλεύματα τὰ πρόσθεν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1044, χαιρόντων πόνοι [prev. author] “HF” 575; compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 199a, “Lg.” 636d, 886d.)]
III.2.c ἐᾶν χαίρειν τινά or τι dismiss from one's mind, put away, renounce, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.23, 9.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1187, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 63e, “Prt.” 348a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.3.23, etc.; συχνὰ χ. ἐᾶν τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 59b; ἐλευθερίαν μακρὰ χ. ἐᾶν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Apol.” 3; μακρὰ χ. εἰποῦσα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 12.1; πόλλα μοι τὰν Πωλυανάκτιδα παῖδα χαίρην 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 86; τὴν Κύπριν πόλλ᾽ ἐγὼ χαίρειν λέγω 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 113, compare 1059, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 188a; χ. κελεύων πολλὰ τοὺς Ἀχαρνέας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 200; εἰπεῖν χαίρειν τινά “Ath.Mitt.” 56.131 (Milet., Hellenistic), compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 50; χαίρειν προσαγορεύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 322 (_metaphorically_ in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 771a); χαίρειν προσειπεῖν 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 308: less frequently with _dative_ _person_ (never with ἐᾶν χ.), πολλὰ χαίρειν ξυμφοραῖς καταξιῶ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 572 (nisi to be read ξυμφοράς); φράσαι.. χαίρειν Ἀθηναίοισι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 609 (troch.); πολλὰ εἰπόντα χ. τῷ ἀληθεῖ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 272e, compare “Phd.” 64c, “R.” 406d, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.1.31 (codices, perhaps ἀλλήλους), 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator)]ad Them.255a.
III.3 on other occasions, as in comforting, be of good cheer, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.408; at meals, 4.60, 18.122)]; χαῖρε, γύναι, φιλότητι good luck be on our union,[Refs (11.248; εὐχωλῇς χαίρετε 13.358: χαῖρε ἀοιδῇ “Hymni Homerici” 9.7.)]
IV participle χαίρων glad, joyful, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.446, etc.; χαίροντα φίλην ἐς πατρίδ᾽ ἔπεμπον εἰς Ἰθάκην 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.461; χαίροντι φέρειν.. χαίρων 17.83)]; λυπούμενοι καὶ χαίροντες in sorrow and in joy, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1356a16)]: also perfect participle κεχαρηκώς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.27, 42, etc.)]
IV.2 joined with another Verb, safe and sound, with impunity, χαίροντα ἀπαλλάσσειν [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 69, compare 9.106, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.153)]; more frequently with a negative, οὐ χαίρων to one's cost, οὐ χαίροντες γέλωτα ἐμὲ θήσεσθε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.29; οὔ τι χαίρων.. ἐρεῖς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 363, compare “Ant.” 759, “Ph.” 1299, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 398, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 563, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 510d; οὐ γὰπ.. χαίρων τις.. τοὐμὸν ἀλγυνεῖ κέαρ 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 90; οὔτε χαίροντες ἂν ἀπαλλάζαιτε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.32; also οὔτι χαιρήσων γε σύ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 186; compare above 11.)]
IV.3 in the same sense as imperative (above [Refs (111), σὺ δέ μοι χαίρων ἀφίκοιο)]fare-thee-well, and may'st thou arrive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.128, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.163)]; χαίροισ᾽ ἔρχεο go thy way rejoicing, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 23.7)]; ἀλλ᾽ ἑρπέτω χαίρουσα let her go with a benison, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 819)]; χαίρων ἴθι fare-thee-well, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 813, “Ph.” 921; χαίρουσα.. στεῖχε [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1440.)]
IV.4 τὸ χαῖρον τῆς ψυχῆς [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.136c, 1089e.)]
V Astrology texts, of a planet, occupy the position appropriate to another of its own αἵρεσις, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Serapio Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 8(4).230, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 51, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 63.6, 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 2.348)]. (Cf. Sanskrit háryati 'take pleasure in', Umbr. heriest 'will wish', Latin horior.)