Strong G5485χάρις
grace
- Transliteration
- charis
- Pronunciation
- khar'-ece
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From G5463; graciousness (as gratifying) of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart and its reflection in the life; including gratitude): - acceptable benefit favour gift grace (-ious) joy liberality pleasure thank (-s -worthy).
Detailed definition
χάρις, -ιτος, ἡ Abbott-Smith does not include the article here., accusative, χάριν (χάριτα in Act.24:27, Ju 4; see WH, App., 157),
[in LXX chiefly for חֵן;]
1. objectively, that which causes favourable regard, gracefulness, grace, loveliness of form, graciousness of speech (cl.; Ecc.10:12, Sir.21:16, al.): Col.4:6; λόγοι τ. χάριτος (genitive qual.), Luk.4:22.
2. Subjectively,
__(a) on the part of the giver, grace, graciousness, kindness, goodwill, favour: Luk.2:52, Act.7:10, al.; esp. in NT of the divine favour, grace, with emphasis on its freeness and universality: Luk.1:30, Act.14:26, Rom.1:7, 1Co.1:3, al.; opposite to ὀφείλημα, Rom.4:4, 16; to ἔργα, Rom.11:6;
__(b) on the part of the receiver, a sense of favour received, thanks, gratitude: Rom.6:17 7:25, al.; χ. ἔχειν, to be thankful, Luk.17:9, 1Ti.1:12, al.
3. Objectively, of the effect of grace,
__(a) a state of grace: Rom.5:2, 2Ti.2:1, 1Pe.5:12, 2Pe.3:18;
__(b) a proof or gift of grace (cl., a favour): Jhn.1:16, Act.6:8, Rom.1:5, 1Co.3:10, 2Co.9:8, Gal.2:9, Eph.3:2, 1Pe.5:5, 10 al. (For fuller treatment of the NT usage, see AR, Eph., 221ff.; DB, ii, 254ff.; DCG, i, 686ff.; Cremer, see word).
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for חֵן;]
1. objectively, that which causes favourable regard, gracefulness, grace, loveliness of form, graciousness of speech (cl.; Ecc.10:12, Sir.21:16, al.): Col.4:6; λόγοι τ. χάριτος (genitive qual.), Luk.4:22.
2. Subjectively,
__(a) on the part of the giver, grace, graciousness, kindness, goodwill, favour: Luk.2:52, Act.7:10, al.; esp. in NT of the divine favour, grace, with emphasis on its freeness and universality: Luk.1:30, Act.14:26, Rom.1:7, 1Co.1:3, al.; opposite to ὀφείλημα, Rom.4:4, 16; to ἔργα, Rom.11:6;
__(b) on the part of the receiver, a sense of favour received, thanks, gratitude: Rom.6:17 7:25, al.; χ. ἔχειν, to be thankful, Luk.17:9, 1Ti.1:12, al.
3. Objectively, of the effect of grace,
__(a) a state of grace: Rom.5:2, 2Ti.2:1, 1Pe.5:12, 2Pe.3:18;
__(b) a proof or gift of grace (cl., a favour): Jhn.1:16, Act.6:8, Rom.1:5, 1Co.3:10, 2Co.9:8, Gal.2:9, Eph.3:2, 1Pe.5:5, 10 al. (For fuller treatment of the NT usage, see AR, Eph., 221ff.; DB, ii, 254ff.; DCG, i, 686ff.; Cremer, see word).
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5485 appears in 146 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- grace121
- thank7
- favour6
- thanks4
- pleasure2
- acceptable1
- benefit1
- by1
- gift1
- gracious1
- liberality1
- of1
First verses
- Luke 1:30And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
- Luke 2:40And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
- Luke 2:52And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
- Luke 4:22And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
- Luke 6:32For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
- Luke 6:33And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
- Luke 6:34And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
- Luke 17:9Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.
- John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- John 1:16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- Acts 2:47Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
- Acts 4:33And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
- Acts 7:10And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
- Acts 7:46Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
- Acts 11:23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
- Acts 13:43Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
- Acts 14:3Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
- Acts 14:26And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
- Acts 15:11But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
χάρις [ᾰ], ἡ,
genitive χάρῐτος: accusative χάριν [ῑ in arsi, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.874])], etc.; also χάριτα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.41, 9.107, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 61, “Hel.” 1378, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.5.16, 3rd c.BC: Phylarchus Historicus 24 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, “PGen.” 47.17 (4th c.AD), etc. (un-Attic, _accusative_ to Moer.p.414P.): χάριταν “Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”: _plural_ χάριτες)]; dative χάρισι, χαρίτεσσι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.237, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.51, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.93)]: (χαίρω):—grace:
I in objective sense, outward grace or fauour, beauty, properly of persons or their portraits, θεσπεσίην δ᾽ ἄρα τῷ γε χάριν κατεχεύατ᾽ Ἀθήνη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.12, etc.; χάριν ἀμφιχέαι κεφαλῇ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 65; εὐμόρφων δὲ κολοσσῶν ἔχθεται χ. ἀνδρί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 417 (Lyric poetry))]: plural, graces, κάλλεϊ καὶ χάρισι στίλβων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.237; ὄσσοις χάριτας Ἀφροδίτης ἔχων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 236; μετὰ χαρίτων)]gracefully, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.41: less frequently of things, χ. δ᾽ ἀπελάμπετο πολλή,)] of ear-rings, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.183)]; of works, ἔργοισι χάριν καὶ κῦδος ὀπάζει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.320)]; of words, οὔ οἱ χ. ἀμφιπεριστέφεται ἐπέεσσιν [Refs (8.175)]; πλείστη δὲ χ. κατὰ μέτρον ἰούσης [γλώσσης] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 720; ταὶ Διωνύσου σὺν βοηλάτα χάριτες διθυράμβῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.19; ἡ τῶν λόγων χ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.38, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 23; μῦθοι πληθόμενοι χαρίτων “Anthologia Graeca” 9.186 (1st c.BC: Antipater Thessalonicensis Epigrammaticus).)]
I.2 glory, Φερενίκου χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.18, compare 8.57, 80.)]
II in subjective sense, grace or favour felt, whether on the part of the doer or the receiver (both senses appear in such phrases as ὅτ᾽.. ἡ χάρις χάριν φέροι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 779; χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾽ ἀεί [prev. author] “Aj.” 522, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1234, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1385a16):)]
II.1 on the part of the doer, grace, kindness, goodwill, τινος for or towards one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 190; τῶν Μεσσηνίων χάριτι πεισθείς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.95)]; οὐ χάριτι τῇ ἐμῇ not for any kind feeling towards me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.41: _absolutely_, εἰ δέ τις μείζων χ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 960; τῆς παλαιᾶς χ. ἐκβεβλημένη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 808)]; ἦ μεγάλα χ. δώρῳ σύν ὀλίγῳ [LXX+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 28.24; χ. εὑρεῖν ἐναντίον τοῦ θεοῦ LXX.Gen.6.8, +others; χάριν ἔχειν πρὸς τὸν δῆμον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 7)]; partiality, favour, μήτε ἔλεον μήτε συγγνώμην μήτε χ. μηδεμίαν περὶ πλείονος ποιήσασθαι τῶν νόμων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.40; οὐ συμφωνοῦσιν ὀργαὶ καὶ χάριτες μακαριότητι 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Ep.” i p.28 U., compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 740c.)]
II.2 more frequently on the part of the receiver, sense of favour received, thankfulness, gratitude, χάριν καὶ κῦδος ἄροιο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.95; ἀρέομαι πὰρ Σαλαμῖνος Ἀθαναίων χ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.76)]; τινος for a thing, οὐδέ τίς ἐστι χάρις μετόπισθ᾽ εὐεργέων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.695, compare 22.319; ἀντὶ πόνων χ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.86: less frequently with)]infinitive, οὐκ ἄρα τις χάρις ἦεν μάρνασθαι one has, it seems, no thanks for fighting, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.316, 17.147; οἵ οἱ ἀπεμνήσαντο χ. εὐεργεσιάων 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 503, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137; χάριν φέρειν τινί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).17; χ. τροφεῦσιν ἀμείβων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 728 (Lyric poetry); φιλότητος ἀμειβόμεναι χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 134 (Lyric poetry))]; χάριν εἰδέναι τινί to acknowledge a sense of favour, feel grateful, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ἐγὼ δέ κέ τοι ἰδέω χ. ἤματα πάντα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.235; frequently in Prose, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.21, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.175, etc.)]; τούτων for a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.11, etc.; τοῖς διαπεπραγμένοις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 62; μοι χ. οἶδεν ἐπὶ τούτοις 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Bis Acc.” 17; χ. προσειδέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 20a; ἀποδιδόναι [prev. author] “R.” 338a; τινὰ ἀποστερῆσαι χάριτος [prev. author] “Hp.Mi.” 372c; later χ. γνῶναι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 2.17; πολλὴν γνοῦσα χ. 2nd c.AD(?): Xenophon Ephesius Scriptor Eroticus 3.5; χ. ἐπίσταμαι πᾶσι 2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 3.4, compare 8.5, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.142, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 8.246c; also τῶν παροιχομένων ἔχειν σφι μεγάλην χ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.120, compare 1.71, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 767 (Lyric poetry), “IT” 847 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.1, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “adv. Athenogenem” 5)]: with participle, χ. ἔχειν σωθέντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.14)]; also χάριτας ἔχων πατρός owing him a debt of gratitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 244: but ἀσπασμάτων χάριν τίν᾽ ἕξει)]; what thanks will she have for.. ? [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Hec.” 830; χ. ἂν ἐν τούτῳ μείζω ἔτι ἔσχεν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.87)]; χ. ὀφείλειν to owe gratitude, be beholden, τοῖς θεοῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 331, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.30; προσοφείλειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.31; χ. οὐδεμία ἐφαίνετο πρὸς Ἀθηναίων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.90)]; χάριν ἀθάνατον καταθέσθαι to lay up a store of undying gratitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.178, compare 6.41; τῇ πόλει χ. καταθέσθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.61, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.33)]; χάριν λαβεῖν τινος receive thanks from one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1004, etc.; ἀπολαβεῖν παρά τινων 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.31)]; τινος for a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.5, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.4; διπλῆν ἐξ ἐμοῦ κτήσει χάριν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1370; κἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ κτήσει χ. [prev. author] “Tr.” 471; κομίσασθαι χ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.58; χάριτος τυχεῖν 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 135; ἀπέχειν χάριτας 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 51.4, etc.)]; τοῖς θεοῖς χάρις (i.e. ἐστί) ὅτι.., thank the gods that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.3.14, “Cyr.” 7.5.72; χ. τινί τινος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 36; τινὶ ὑπέρ τινος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1122a.)]
II.3 favour, influence, opposed to force, χάριτι τὸ πλέον ἢ φόβῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.9)]; χ. καὶ δεήσει, opposed to ἀπειλῇ, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 38.)]
II.4 love-charm, philtre, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 5, “Merc.Cond.” 40.)]
III in concrete sense, a favour done or returned, boon, χάριν φέρειν τινί confer a favour on one, do a thing to oblige him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.211, 874, 9.613, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.307, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 14, “Or.” 239, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.24)] (so in middle, of the recipient,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 9); ἄλλοις χ. φέροντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.54)]; χάριν θέσθαι or τίθεσθαί τινι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.60, 107, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 782, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1211, etc.; προσθέσθαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 767; χ. ὑπουργῆσαί τινι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 635; παρασχεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1183; πράσσειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 36, 896 (Lyric poetry); δράσας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.40)]; ἀνύσαι probably in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 995 (_anapaest meter_); νέμειν [prev. author] “Aj.” 1371; χ. δοῦναί τινι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 821, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1489 (but χ. δοῦναι, ={χαρίζεσθαι} (1.2))], indulge, humour, ὀργῇ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 855; γαστρί 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 317); χ. χαρίζεσθαι, see at {χαρίζομαι} I.1: χ. ἀνθυπουργεῖν)] return a favour, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 339; τίνειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 985, “Ag.” 821; χάριτας πατρῴας ἐκτίνων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 453, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 242c, etc.; χ. ἀποδιδόναι τινί 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.60, 28.17; ἀντί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 2.29; ὑπέρ τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.56; τῶν ἔργων τὰς χάριτας ἀποδ. τινί 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.24; χάριτας ἀντιδιδόναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.63)]; opposed to χάριν ἀπαιτεῖν to ask the repayment of a boon, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 276, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 18.23, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.156; χάριτας ἀπ. 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 139; χάριν ἐξαιτεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 586)]; χ. ἀποστερεῖν withhold a return for what one has received, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 520c)]; τὰς αὑτοῦ εἰς τοὺς φίλους χ. the favours one has done them, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 729d)]; χ. ἄχαρις α thankless favour, one which receives, or deserves, no thanks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 545 (Lyric poetry); χ. ἀχάριτος [prev. author] “Ch.” 42 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1757 (Lyric poetry).)]
III.b grant made in legal form, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“POxy.” 273.14 (1st c.AD), “PGrenf.” 2.70.5 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]; αἱ τῶν Σεβαστῶν χ. imperial grants, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“OGI” 669.44 (Egypt, 1st c.AD).)]
III.2 especially in erotic sense, of favours granted (see. χαρίζομαι 1.3), ἀλόχου χάριν ἰδεῖν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.243, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1206: more frequently in _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.34, 7.6, etc.)]; βίᾳ δ᾽ ἔπραξας χάριτας ἢ πείσας κόρη; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Tragica Adespota” 402; in full, χάριτες ἀφροδισίων ἐρώτων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 128, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 254a, +others)]
IV gratification, delight, τινος in or from a thing, συμποσίου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.5; νίκας [prev. author] “O.” 10(11).78; ὕπνου χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 159 (Lyric poetry); even χ. γόων [prev. author] “Supp.” 79 (Lyric poetry))]; also concrete, of things, a delight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.19 (_plural_); τὰν βοτρυώδη Διονύσου χ. οἴνας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 535 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 311 (Lyric poetry), 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 3.125b; ἔνοπτρα, παρθένων χάριτας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1108 (Lyric poetry): _absolutely_, Ἔρως.. εἰσάγων γλυκεῖαν χ. [prev. author] “Hipp.” 527 (Lyric poetry))]; opposed to λύπη, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 821, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 655 (Lyric poetry))]; opposed to πόνος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 232 (Lyric poetry); θανεῖν πολλὴ χάρις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 550, compare 1304; βίου χ. μεθεῖσα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 227; οὐδεμίαν ἔχω τῷ βίῳ χάριν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 865; τοῖς δὲ σιτίοις χ. οὐδεμίαν οἶδ᾽ ἐσθίων [prev. work] 869)]; less frequently in Prose, χ. καὶ ἡδονή [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 462c, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.26; τοσαύτην ἔχει χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.10.)]
V δαιμόνων χάρις homage due to them, their worship, majesty, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 182 (Lyric poetry); ἀθίκτων χ. [prev. work] 371 (Lyric poetry))]; ὅρκων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 439 (Lyric poetry).)]
V.2 thank-offering, εὐκταία χ. τινός, opposed to a common gift, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1387, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 8.4; ἔπεμψε χαίτην κουρίμην χ. πατρός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 180, compare 517; τιμὴ καὶ γέρα καὶ χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 15a, compare “La.” 187a.)]
VI Special usages:
VI.1 accusative singular as adverb, χ. τινός in any one's favour, for his pleasure, for his sake, χ. Ἕκτορος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.744)]; ψεύδεσθαι γλώσσης χ. for one's tongue's pleasure, i.e. for talking's sake, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 709, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 266)]; rarely with Article, τὴν Ἀθηναίων χάριν ἐστρατεύοντο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.99.)]
VI.1.b as preposition, sometimes before its case (once in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, “P.” 2.70; χάριν πλησμονῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 241c; χ. φιλίας 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 28)]; χ. τίνο; [LXX+1st c.BC+ (LXX.2Ch.7.21, compare “POxy.” 743.29 (1st c.BC), etc.))], but mostly after, for the sake of, on behalf of, on account of, κακά νιν ἕλοιτο μοῖρα δυσπότμου χάριν χλιδᾶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 888 (Lyric poetry))]; τοῦ χάρι; for what reason? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 53; συγχωρῶ τοῦ λόγου χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 475a)]; so ἐμὴν χάριν, χάριν σήν, for my, thy pleasure or sake, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 1046 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1238, etc.; κείνου τε καὶ σὴν ἐξ ἴσου κοινὴν χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 485)]: less frequently with the Article, τὴν σὴν δ᾽ ἥκω χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1413 (_anapaest meter_); σοῦ τε τήν τ᾽ ἐμὴν χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 762:—pleonastic, τίνος χάριν ἕνεκ; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 701d)]; also χάριν τινός as far as regards.., as to.., ἔπους σμικροῦ χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 443)]; δακρύων χάριν if tears would serve, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 557.6; χ. θανάτου πόλιν ἀτείχιστον οἰκοῦμεν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 31)]; also, about, ἔπεμφεν ἐπὶ τὴν πενθεράν σου χ. τοῦ κτήματος about the farm, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PFay.” 126.5 (2nd-3rd c.AD).)]—Orig. an accusative in apposition with the sentence, as in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.744, etc.)], being a favour, since it is (was) a favour, as is evident in κακῆς γυναικὸς χάριν ἄχαριν ἀπώλετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 566; τινὸς νίκας ἀκάρπωτον χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 176 (Lyric poetry).)]
VI.2 with Preps.:
VI.2.a εἰς χάριν to do a pleasure, οὐδὲν ἐς χ. πράσσων [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] “OT” 1353 (Lyric poetry); ἐς χ. τίθεσθαί τι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 46; μηδὲ κρίσιν εἰς χ. ἕλκε 1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 9 (but ἐς τὴν τῶν ξυμμάχων χ.)] in such a way as to earn thanks.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.37); also κατὰ χάριν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 740c; χάριτος ἕνεκα [prev. work] 771d.)]
VI.2.b πράσσειν τί τινι πρὸς χάριν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1776 (_anapaest meter_); δρᾶσαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1281; τοῖσι πολλοῖς πρὸς χάριν λέγειν τι [prev. author] “Hec.” 257, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.4, “HG” 6.3.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.18, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.1 (but πρὸς χ. βορᾶς)] for the sake of it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 30))]; πρὸς χ., opposed to κλαίων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OT” 1152:—but πρὸς χ. εὐσεβίας, just like{χάριν}, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.8; τίνος νόμου ταῦτα πρὸς χ. λέγ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 908; πρὸς ἰσχύος χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 538)]; πρὸς χ. alone, as a favour, freely, πρὸς χ. τε κοὐ βίᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 28)]; but κορέσαι στόμα πρὸς χ. to their heart's content, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1156 (Lyric poetry).)]
VI.2.c ἐν χάριτι κρίνειν τινά to decide from partiality to one, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.69)]; but also, for one's gratification, pleasure, ἐν χάριτι διδόναι or ποιεῖν τινί τι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 8.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 115b: παραλαμβάνειν ἐν χάρισιν)]gratefully, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 796b.)]
VI.2.d διὰ χαρίτων εἶναι or γίγνεσθαί [τινι] to be pleasing to one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 9.1, 2.)]
VI.2.e ἐθελοντὶ καὶ μετὰ χάριτος of pure good will, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.22.5, etc.; ἐθελούσιοι καὶ χάριτος ἕνεκα ἐξιόντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.11.)]
VII metaphorically of the cypress, [Refs (Gp. 11.4.1)]; of some kind of myrtle, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.51)]; of salt, ὅτι τὸ ἀναγκαῖον ἡδὺ ποιοῦσιν (i.e. ἅλες) [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.685a.)]
B Χάρις, ἡ, as a mythological proper name declined like{χάρις}, save that the accusative is generally Χάριτα (except [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.148 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 15.1, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.35.4): poetry _dative_ _plural_ Χαρίτεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.51, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.54; Χάρισσιν [prev. work] 5.54)]:—Charis, wife of Hephaestus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.382)]; mostly in plural Χάριτες, αἱ, the Graces, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (14.267, 275, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.18, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.50, etc.)]; three in number, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 907, etc. (τέσσαρες αἱ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus)], as a compliment, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 52.1))]; attendants of Aphrodite, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.338, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 73, “hymnus ad Venerem” 61, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.24.7)]; coupled with Μοῦσαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 64)]; κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι, i.e. like that of the Graces, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.51)]; worshipped at Orchomenus in Boeotia, Ἐτεόκλειοι Χάριτες θεαί [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.104, cf. Scholia (at [prev. work]), 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 9.2.40, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.35.3, 9.38.1)]: but at Lacedaemon and Athens only two were originally worshipped, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.18.6, 9.35.2; Χαρίτων ἱερὸν ἐμποδὼν ποιοῦνται 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1133a3; θύειν ταῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.141f; in adjurations, πρὸς τῶν Χαρίτων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 152c; νὴ τὰς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 26; ὦ φίλαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.710d.— Rarely in _sing._, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus ζωθάλμιος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.11; Χάριτος ἡδίστης θεῶν 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 228.4.)]
genitive χάρῐτος: accusative χάριν [ῑ in arsi, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.874])], etc.; also χάριτα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.41, 9.107, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 61, “Hel.” 1378, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.5.16, 3rd c.BC: Phylarchus Historicus 24 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, “PGen.” 47.17 (4th c.AD), etc. (un-Attic, _accusative_ to Moer.p.414P.): χάριταν “Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”: _plural_ χάριτες)]; dative χάρισι, χαρίτεσσι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.237, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.51, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.93)]: (χαίρω):—grace:
I in objective sense, outward grace or fauour, beauty, properly of persons or their portraits, θεσπεσίην δ᾽ ἄρα τῷ γε χάριν κατεχεύατ᾽ Ἀθήνη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.12, etc.; χάριν ἀμφιχέαι κεφαλῇ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 65; εὐμόρφων δὲ κολοσσῶν ἔχθεται χ. ἀνδρί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 417 (Lyric poetry))]: plural, graces, κάλλεϊ καὶ χάρισι στίλβων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.237; ὄσσοις χάριτας Ἀφροδίτης ἔχων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 236; μετὰ χαρίτων)]gracefully, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.41: less frequently of things, χ. δ᾽ ἀπελάμπετο πολλή,)] of ear-rings, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.183)]; of works, ἔργοισι χάριν καὶ κῦδος ὀπάζει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.320)]; of words, οὔ οἱ χ. ἀμφιπεριστέφεται ἐπέεσσιν [Refs (8.175)]; πλείστη δὲ χ. κατὰ μέτρον ἰούσης [γλώσσης] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 720; ταὶ Διωνύσου σὺν βοηλάτα χάριτες διθυράμβῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.19; ἡ τῶν λόγων χ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.38, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 23; μῦθοι πληθόμενοι χαρίτων “Anthologia Graeca” 9.186 (1st c.BC: Antipater Thessalonicensis Epigrammaticus).)]
I.2 glory, Φερενίκου χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.18, compare 8.57, 80.)]
II in subjective sense, grace or favour felt, whether on the part of the doer or the receiver (both senses appear in such phrases as ὅτ᾽.. ἡ χάρις χάριν φέροι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 779; χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾽ ἀεί [prev. author] “Aj.” 522, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1234, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1385a16):)]
II.1 on the part of the doer, grace, kindness, goodwill, τινος for or towards one, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 190; τῶν Μεσσηνίων χάριτι πεισθείς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.95)]; οὐ χάριτι τῇ ἐμῇ not for any kind feeling towards me, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.41: _absolutely_, εἰ δέ τις μείζων χ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 960; τῆς παλαιᾶς χ. ἐκβεβλημένη 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 808)]; ἦ μεγάλα χ. δώρῳ σύν ὀλίγῳ [LXX+3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 28.24; χ. εὑρεῖν ἐναντίον τοῦ θεοῦ LXX.Gen.6.8, +others; χάριν ἔχειν πρὸς τὸν δῆμον 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 7)]; partiality, favour, μήτε ἔλεον μήτε συγγνώμην μήτε χ. μηδεμίαν περὶ πλείονος ποιήσασθαι τῶν νόμων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.40; οὐ συμφωνοῦσιν ὀργαὶ καὶ χάριτες μακαριότητι 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Ep.” i p.28 U., compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 740c.)]
II.2 more frequently on the part of the receiver, sense of favour received, thankfulness, gratitude, χάριν καὶ κῦδος ἄροιο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.95; ἀρέομαι πὰρ Σαλαμῖνος Ἀθαναίων χ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.76)]; τινος for a thing, οὐδέ τίς ἐστι χάρις μετόπισθ᾽ εὐεργέων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.695, compare 22.319; ἀντὶ πόνων χ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.86: less frequently with)]infinitive, οὐκ ἄρα τις χάρις ἦεν μάρνασθαι one has, it seems, no thanks for fighting, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.316, 17.147; οἵ οἱ ἀπεμνήσαντο χ. εὐεργεσιάων 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 503, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137; χάριν φέρειν τινί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).17; χ. τροφεῦσιν ἀμείβων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 728 (Lyric poetry); φιλότητος ἀμειβόμεναι χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 134 (Lyric poetry))]; χάριν εἰδέναι τινί to acknowledge a sense of favour, feel grateful, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ἐγὼ δέ κέ τοι ἰδέω χ. ἤματα πάντα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.235; frequently in Prose, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.21, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.175, etc.)]; τούτων for a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.11, etc.; τοῖς διαπεπραγμένοις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 62; μοι χ. οἶδεν ἐπὶ τούτοις 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Bis Acc.” 17; χ. προσειδέναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 20a; ἀποδιδόναι [prev. author] “R.” 338a; τινὰ ἀποστερῆσαι χάριτος [prev. author] “Hp.Mi.” 372c; later χ. γνῶναι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 2.17; πολλὴν γνοῦσα χ. 2nd c.AD(?): Xenophon Ephesius Scriptor Eroticus 3.5; χ. ἐπίσταμαι πᾶσι 2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 3.4, compare 8.5, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.142, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 8.246c; also τῶν παροιχομένων ἔχειν σφι μεγάλην χ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.120, compare 1.71, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 767 (Lyric poetry), “IT” 847 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.1, 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “adv. Athenogenem” 5)]: with participle, χ. ἔχειν σωθέντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.5.14)]; also χάριτας ἔχων πατρός owing him a debt of gratitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 244: but ἀσπασμάτων χάριν τίν᾽ ἕξει)]; what thanks will she have for.. ? [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Hec.” 830; χ. ἂν ἐν τούτῳ μείζω ἔτι ἔσχεν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.87)]; χ. ὀφείλειν to owe gratitude, be beholden, τοῖς θεοῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 331, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.30; προσοφείλειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 3.31; χ. οὐδεμία ἐφαίνετο πρὸς Ἀθηναίων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.90)]; χάριν ἀθάνατον καταθέσθαι to lay up a store of undying gratitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.178, compare 6.41; τῇ πόλει χ. καταθέσθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.61, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.33)]; χάριν λαβεῖν τινος receive thanks from one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1004, etc.; ἀπολαβεῖν παρά τινων 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 20.31)]; τινος for a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.2.5, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.4; διπλῆν ἐξ ἐμοῦ κτήσει χάριν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1370; κἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ κτήσει χ. [prev. author] “Tr.” 471; κομίσασθαι χ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.58; χάριτος τυχεῖν 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 135; ἀπέχειν χάριτας 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 51.4, etc.)]; τοῖς θεοῖς χάρις (i.e. ἐστί) ὅτι.., thank the gods that.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.3.14, “Cyr.” 7.5.72; χ. τινί τινος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 36; τινὶ ὑπέρ τινος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1122a.)]
II.3 favour, influence, opposed to force, χάριτι τὸ πλέον ἢ φόβῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.9)]; χ. καὶ δεήσει, opposed to ἀπειλῇ, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 38.)]
II.4 love-charm, philtre, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 5, “Merc.Cond.” 40.)]
III in concrete sense, a favour done or returned, boon, χάριν φέρειν τινί confer a favour on one, do a thing to oblige him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.211, 874, 9.613, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.307, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 14, “Or.” 239, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.24)] (so in middle, of the recipient,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 9); ἄλλοις χ. φέροντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.54)]; χάριν θέσθαι or τίθεσθαί τινι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.60, 107, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 782, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1211, etc.; προσθέσθαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 767; χ. ὑπουργῆσαί τινι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 635; παρασχεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1183; πράσσειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 36, 896 (Lyric poetry); δράσας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.40)]; ἀνύσαι probably in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 995 (_anapaest meter_); νέμειν [prev. author] “Aj.” 1371; χ. δοῦναί τινι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 821, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1489 (but χ. δοῦναι, ={χαρίζεσθαι} (1.2))], indulge, humour, ὀργῇ[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 855; γαστρί 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 317); χ. χαρίζεσθαι, see at {χαρίζομαι} I.1: χ. ἀνθυπουργεῖν)] return a favour, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 339; τίνειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 985, “Ag.” 821; χάριτας πατρῴας ἐκτίνων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 453, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 242c, etc.; χ. ἀποδιδόναι τινί 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 12.60, 28.17; ἀντί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 2.29; ὑπέρ τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.56; τῶν ἔργων τὰς χάριτας ἀποδ. τινί 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.24; χάριτας ἀντιδιδόναι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.63)]; opposed to χάριν ἀπαιτεῖν to ask the repayment of a boon, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 276, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 18.23, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.156; χάριτας ἀπ. 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 139; χάριν ἐξαιτεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 586)]; χ. ἀποστερεῖν withhold a return for what one has received, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 520c)]; τὰς αὑτοῦ εἰς τοὺς φίλους χ. the favours one has done them, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 729d)]; χ. ἄχαρις α thankless favour, one which receives, or deserves, no thanks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 545 (Lyric poetry); χ. ἀχάριτος [prev. author] “Ch.” 42 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1757 (Lyric poetry).)]
III.b grant made in legal form, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“POxy.” 273.14 (1st c.AD), “PGrenf.” 2.70.5 (3rd c.AD), etc.)]; αἱ τῶν Σεβαστῶν χ. imperial grants, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“OGI” 669.44 (Egypt, 1st c.AD).)]
III.2 especially in erotic sense, of favours granted (see. χαρίζομαι 1.3), ἀλόχου χάριν ἰδεῖν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.243, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1206: more frequently in _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.34, 7.6, etc.)]; βίᾳ δ᾽ ἔπραξας χάριτας ἢ πείσας κόρη; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Tragica Adespota” 402; in full, χάριτες ἀφροδισίων ἐρώτων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 128, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 254a, +others)]
IV gratification, delight, τινος in or from a thing, συμποσίου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.5; νίκας [prev. author] “O.” 10(11).78; ὕπνου χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 159 (Lyric poetry); even χ. γόων [prev. author] “Supp.” 79 (Lyric poetry))]; also concrete, of things, a delight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.19 (_plural_); τὰν βοτρυώδη Διονύσου χ. οἴνας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 535 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 311 (Lyric poetry), 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 3.125b; ἔνοπτρα, παρθένων χάριτας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1108 (Lyric poetry): _absolutely_, Ἔρως.. εἰσάγων γλυκεῖαν χ. [prev. author] “Hipp.” 527 (Lyric poetry))]; opposed to λύπη, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 821, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 655 (Lyric poetry))]; opposed to πόνος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 232 (Lyric poetry); θανεῖν πολλὴ χάρις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 550, compare 1304; βίου χ. μεθεῖσα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 227; οὐδεμίαν ἔχω τῷ βίῳ χάριν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 865; τοῖς δὲ σιτίοις χ. οὐδεμίαν οἶδ᾽ ἐσθίων [prev. work] 869)]; less frequently in Prose, χ. καὶ ἡδονή [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 462c, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.26; τοσαύτην ἔχει χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.10.)]
V δαιμόνων χάρις homage due to them, their worship, majesty, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 182 (Lyric poetry); ἀθίκτων χ. [prev. work] 371 (Lyric poetry))]; ὅρκων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 439 (Lyric poetry).)]
V.2 thank-offering, εὐκταία χ. τινός, opposed to a common gift, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1387, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 8.4; ἔπεμψε χαίτην κουρίμην χ. πατρός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 180, compare 517; τιμὴ καὶ γέρα καὶ χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 15a, compare “La.” 187a.)]
VI Special usages:
VI.1 accusative singular as adverb, χ. τινός in any one's favour, for his pleasure, for his sake, χ. Ἕκτορος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.744)]; ψεύδεσθαι γλώσσης χ. for one's tongue's pleasure, i.e. for talking's sake, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 709, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 266)]; rarely with Article, τὴν Ἀθηναίων χάριν ἐστρατεύοντο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.99.)]
VI.1.b as preposition, sometimes before its case (once in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, “P.” 2.70; χάριν πλησμονῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 241c; χ. φιλίας 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 28)]; χ. τίνο; [LXX+1st c.BC+ (LXX.2Ch.7.21, compare “POxy.” 743.29 (1st c.BC), etc.))], but mostly after, for the sake of, on behalf of, on account of, κακά νιν ἕλοιτο μοῖρα δυσπότμου χάριν χλιδᾶς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 888 (Lyric poetry))]; τοῦ χάρι; for what reason? [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 53; συγχωρῶ τοῦ λόγου χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 475a)]; so ἐμὴν χάριν, χάριν σήν, for my, thy pleasure or sake, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 1046 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1238, etc.; κείνου τε καὶ σὴν ἐξ ἴσου κοινὴν χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 485)]: less frequently with the Article, τὴν σὴν δ᾽ ἥκω χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1413 (_anapaest meter_); σοῦ τε τήν τ᾽ ἐμὴν χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 762:—pleonastic, τίνος χάριν ἕνεκ; 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 701d)]; also χάριν τινός as far as regards.., as to.., ἔπους σμικροῦ χ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 443)]; δακρύων χάριν if tears would serve, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “fragment” 557.6; χ. θανάτου πόλιν ἀτείχιστον οἰκοῦμεν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Gnomologium Vaticanum - Kleine Schriften” 31)]; also, about, ἔπεμφεν ἐπὶ τὴν πενθεράν σου χ. τοῦ κτήματος about the farm, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PFay.” 126.5 (2nd-3rd c.AD).)]—Orig. an accusative in apposition with the sentence, as in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.744, etc.)], being a favour, since it is (was) a favour, as is evident in κακῆς γυναικὸς χάριν ἄχαριν ἀπώλετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 566; τινὸς νίκας ἀκάρπωτον χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 176 (Lyric poetry).)]
VI.2 with Preps.:
VI.2.a εἰς χάριν to do a pleasure, οὐδὲν ἐς χ. πράσσων [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. author] “OT” 1353 (Lyric poetry); ἐς χ. τίθεσθαί τι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 46; μηδὲ κρίσιν εἰς χ. ἕλκε 1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 9 (but ἐς τὴν τῶν ξυμμάχων χ.)] in such a way as to earn thanks.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.37); also κατὰ χάριν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 740c; χάριτος ἕνεκα [prev. work] 771d.)]
VI.2.b πράσσειν τί τινι πρὸς χάριν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1776 (_anapaest meter_); δρᾶσαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1281; τοῖσι πολλοῖς πρὸς χάριν λέγειν τι [prev. author] “Hec.” 257, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.4, “HG” 6.3.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.18, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.1 (but πρὸς χ. βορᾶς)] for the sake of it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 30))]; πρὸς χ., opposed to κλαίων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OT” 1152:—but πρὸς χ. εὐσεβίας, just like{χάριν}, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.8; τίνος νόμου ταῦτα πρὸς χ. λέγ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 908; πρὸς ἰσχύος χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 538)]; πρὸς χ. alone, as a favour, freely, πρὸς χ. τε κοὐ βίᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 28)]; but κορέσαι στόμα πρὸς χ. to their heart's content, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1156 (Lyric poetry).)]
VI.2.c ἐν χάριτι κρίνειν τινά to decide from partiality to one, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.69)]; but also, for one's gratification, pleasure, ἐν χάριτι διδόναι or ποιεῖν τινί τι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 8.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 115b: παραλαμβάνειν ἐν χάρισιν)]gratefully, [Refs ([prev. author] “Lg.” 796b.)]
VI.2.d διὰ χαρίτων εἶναι or γίγνεσθαί [τινι] to be pleasing to one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 9.1, 2.)]
VI.2.e ἐθελοντὶ καὶ μετὰ χάριτος of pure good will, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.22.5, etc.; ἐθελούσιοι καὶ χάριτος ἕνεκα ἐξιόντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.11.)]
VII metaphorically of the cypress, [Refs (Gp. 11.4.1)]; of some kind of myrtle, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.51)]; of salt, ὅτι τὸ ἀναγκαῖον ἡδὺ ποιοῦσιν (i.e. ἅλες) [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.685a.)]
B Χάρις, ἡ, as a mythological proper name declined like{χάρις}, save that the accusative is generally Χάριτα (except [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.148 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 15.1, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.35.4): poetry _dative_ _plural_ Χαρίτεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.51, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.54; Χάρισσιν [prev. work] 5.54)]:—Charis, wife of Hephaestus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.382)]; mostly in plural Χάριτες, αἱ, the Graces, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (14.267, 275, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.18, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.50, etc.)]; three in number, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 907, etc. (τέσσαρες αἱ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus)], as a compliment, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 52.1))]; attendants of Aphrodite, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.338, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 73, “hymnus ad Venerem” 61, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.24.7)]; coupled with Μοῦσαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 64)]; κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι, i.e. like that of the Graces, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.51)]; worshipped at Orchomenus in Boeotia, Ἐτεόκλειοι Χάριτες θεαί [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.104, cf. Scholia (at [prev. work]), 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 9.2.40, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.35.3, 9.38.1)]: but at Lacedaemon and Athens only two were originally worshipped, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.18.6, 9.35.2; Χαρίτων ἱερὸν ἐμποδὼν ποιοῦνται 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1133a3; θύειν ταῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.141f; in adjurations, πρὸς τῶν Χαρίτων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 152c; νὴ τὰς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 26; ὦ φίλαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.710d.— Rarely in _sing._, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus ζωθάλμιος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.11; Χάριτος ἡδίστης θεῶν 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 228.4.)]