Strong G5530χράω

to use

Transliteration
chraomai
Pronunciation
khrah'-om-ahee
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

Middle voice of a primary verb (perhaps rather from G5495 to handle); to furnish what is needed; (give an oracle graze [touch slightly] light upon etc.) that is (by implication) to employ or (by extension) to act towards one in a given manner: - entreat use. Compare G5531 G5534 .

Detailed definition

χράομαι, χρῶμαι
(χρή), [in LXX for עָשָׂה, etc.;]
to use, make use of: with dative (cf. M, Pr., 64, 158), Act.27:17, 1Co.9:12 9:15, 1Ti.1:8 5:23; μᾶλλον χρῆσαι (i.e. the opportunity; see M, Pr., 247), 1Co.7:21; as some­times in late writers (cf. M, Pr., 64; Lft., Notes, 233), with accusative, 1Co.7:31; of feelings, etc., to exercise, shew: 2Co.1:17 3:12; with adv., ἀποτόμως, to deal sharply, 2Co.13:10; with dative of person(s) (cl.), to treat, deal with, Act.27:3.†
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In the Bible

Strong G5530 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • use10
  • entreat1
  • have1

First verses

  1. Acts 27:3
    And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
  2. Acts 27:17
    Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
  3. 1 Corinthians 7:21
    Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
  4. 1 Corinthians 7:31
    And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
  5. 1 Corinthians 9:12
    If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  6. 1 Corinthians 9:15
    But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
  7. 2 Corinthians 1:17
    When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
  8. 2 Corinthians 3:12
    Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
  9. 2 Corinthians 13:10
    Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
  10. 1 Timothy 1:8
    But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
  11. 1 Timothy 5:23
    Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
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χράω.

B[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus)] FORMS: contraction χρῇ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 35)], Ionic dialect χρᾷ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.62 (also 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 3.2))]; infinitive χρᾶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.135 (also 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 19))]; Ionic dialect participle χρέων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Apollinem” 253, _feminine_ χρέωσα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.111)]; Epic dialect χρείων [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.79, “hymnus ad Apollinem” 396)]: imperfect ἔχραον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.92 (variant{ἔχρεον}), 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.454)]; 3rd.pers. singular ἔχρη [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 3.3, 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.89, (ἐξ-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 87)]: future χρήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Apollinem” 132, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.19, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1083)]: aorist ἔχρησα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.156, etc.)]:—passive, aorist ἐχρήσθην [Refs ([prev. author] 1.49)], etc.: perfect κέχρησμαι (variant{κέχρημαι}) [Refs ([prev. author] 4.164, 7.141)]: pluperfect ἐκέχρηστο (variant{ἐκέχρητο}) [Refs ([prev. author] 2.147, 151, 3.64, etc.)]:—middle, χρῶμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126, etc.)], Ionic dialect χρέομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus)], infinitive χρέεσθαι [Refs (1.157 (χρᾶσθαι [prev. work] 172))]; participle χρεώμενος [Refs (4.151:)]imperfect 3rd.pers. plural ἐχρέωντο (variant{ἐχρέοντο}) [Refs (4.157, 5.82)]: future χρήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.492, etc.)]
B.I in active of the gods and their oracles, proclaim, absolutely, χρείων μυθήσατο Φοῖβος [Refs 6th c.BC+ (8.79: χρείων ἐκ δάφνης γυάλων ὕπο Παρνησοῖο “hymnus ad Apollinem” 396: with _accusative_ _of things_, χρήσω ἀνθρώποισι Διὸς βουλήν [prev. work] 132, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 807, Pi.[same place], 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 2.9.9; ἡ Πυθίη οἱ χρᾷ τάδε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.55, compare 4.155)]; χρῆσεν οἰκιστῆρα Βάττον proclaimed him the colonizer, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.6)]; also in Trag., ὁ χρήσας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 798; χρήσειν ἔοικεν ἀμφὶ τῶν αὑτῆς κακῶν [prev. author] “Ag.” 1083; χρῇ μοι τοιαῦθ᾽ ὁ Φοῖβος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 35; σοὶ δ᾽ οὐκ ἔχρησεν οὐδέν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1268; χ. φόνον [prev. author] “El.” 1267: also with _accusative_ _cognate_, χ. χρησμόν [prev. author] “Ph.” 409; ὑμνῳδίαν [prev. author] “Ion” 681 (Lyric poetry))]: with infinitive, warn or direct by oracle, ἔχρησας ὥστε τὸν ξένον μητροκτονεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 202; without ὥστε, [prev. work] 203)]; χρήσαντ᾽ ἐμοὶ.. ἐκτὸς αἰτίας κακῆς εἶναι that I should be.., [Refs ([prev. author] “Ch.” 1030)]; with infinitive aorist, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 159)]: rare in Attic dialect Prose, τάδε ὁ Ἀπόλλων ἔχρησεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.80.10; τὸν Ἀπόλλω ταύτην τὴν γῆν χρῆσαι οἰκεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.102; τοῦ θεοῦ χρήσαντος [prev. author] 5.32, compare 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 99; ἔχρησεν ὁ θεός “SIG” 1044.5 (Halic., 4th-3rd c.BC))]; ὁ θεὸς ἔχρησε [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 42(1).122.78 (Epid., 4th c.BC).)]
B.II passive, to be declared, proclaimed by an oracle, τίς οὖν ἐχρήσθ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 792)]; mostly of the oracle delivered, τὰ ἐκ Δελφῶν οὕτω τῷ Κροίσῳ ἐχρήσθη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.49; τὰ χρηστήρια ταῦτά σφι ἐχρήσθη [prev. author] 9.94; ἠπίως χρησθῆναι [prev. author] 7.143)]; τὸ χρησθέν, τὰ χρησθέντα, the response, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.63, 7.178; ἐν Πυθῶνι χρησθὲν παλαίφατον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.39; πεύθου τὰ χρησθέντ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 604)]; χρησθὲν αὐτῷ ἐν Νεμέᾳ τοῦτο παθεῖν since it was foretold him by an oracle that.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.96)]; ἃ τοῦδ᾽ ἐχρήσθη σώματος which were declared about it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 355; τὸν κεχρησμένον θάνατον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.164 (-χρημ- codices))]; τοῦ κακοῦ τοῦ κεχρησμένου [Refs ([prev. author] 7.141 (variant{-χρημ-}): _impersonal_, with)]infinitive, καί σφι ἐχρήσθη ἀνέμοισι εὔχεσθαι[Refs ([prev. work] 178)]: with accusative et infinitive, ἐκέχρηστό σφι.. τοῦτον βασιλεύσειν [Refs ([prev. author] 2.147)]; with infinitive aorist, [Refs ([prev. author] 7.220.)]
B.III middle, of the person to whom the response is given, consult a god or oracle, with dative, ψυχῇ χρησόμενος Θηβαίου Τειρεσίαο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.492, 565)]; χ. θεῷ, χρηστηρίοισι, μαντηΐῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.47, 53, 157; τῷ θεῷ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.124; χ. μάντεσι Μούσαις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 724 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 686a; ὅσοι μαντικὴν νομίζοντες οἰωνοῖς χρῶνται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.3)]; χ. χρηστηρίῳ εἰ.. inquire at the oracle whether.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.57: _absolutely_, ὑπέρβη λάϊνον οὐδὸν χρησόμενος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.81, compare “hymnus ad Apollinem” 252, 292; ἀπέστειλε ἄλλους χρησομένους 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.46)]; οἱ χρώμενοι the consulters, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 957; χρωμένῳ ἐν Δελφοῖς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126; also χ. περὶ τοῦ πολέμου 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.220, compare 1.85, 4.150, 155, etc.)]; κεχρημένος having inquired of an oracle, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1398b33: with)]infinitive, σωφρονεῖν κεχρημένον being divinely warned to be temperate, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 829, compare 4th c.AD(?): Marcellinus Biographus “Vita Thucydidis” 6)]: later simply, receive a divine revelation, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.3.14.— 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] has the word in this sense only in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”: the)]active only in present participle χρείων (future χρήσω [Refs (“hymnus ad Apollinem” 132): the)]middle only in participle future χρησόμενος.
B furnish with a thing, in which sense the present was κίχρημι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 53.12, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 29)]; Cretan dialect 3rd.pers. singular κίγχρητι [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“Inscription Cretan dialect” 1 xxiii 3 (Phaestus, 2nd c.BC))]; Delph. 3rd.pers. singular present subjunctive κιχρῇ [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Schwyzer” 324.17 (4th c.BC):)]aorist χρέη[Refs ([prev. work]13)]; present participle κιχρέντε [Refs ([prev. work]adn. (rarely)]χρηννύναι, χρηννύω, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 5.10, 10.13)]: middle, χρηννυόμεθα [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PCair.Zen.” 304.4 (3rd c.BC)))]: future χρήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.58:)]aorist ἔχρησα[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. passage], 6.89, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 219, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.18, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.24, “IG” 12.108.16, etc.)] (3rd.pers. singular written ἔκχρησεν [Refs (“IG” 12(3).1350.4 (from Thera)))]; imperative χρῆσον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1159, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus)] Comedy texts 205: perfect κέχρηκα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 461, 598, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 29.21.6 (= 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 31.10))]: pluperfect ἐκεχρήκει [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 2.29:)] —passive, perfect κέχρημαι (δια-) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.11)]:—middle, present κίχρᾰμαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.534b)]; infinitive κίχρασθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 30.20)]: imperfect ἐκιχράμην[Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.584.10)]: aorist ἐχρησάμην, imperative χρῆσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 191 (Lyric poetry))], etc.:—furnish the use of a thing, i.e. lend, usually in a friendly way, δανείζω being the word applied to usurers (but χ. ={δανείζω} in [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 54), [same places]; οὐ δεδωκώς, ἀλλὰ χρήσας 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1162b33, cf. LXX.Exo.11.3; ἡ πειρατικὴ δύναμις χρήσασα ταῖς βασιλικαῖς ὑπηρεσίαις ἑαυτήν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 24; χ. τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σχολήν τισι [prev. author] “Phil.” 13)]; χ. τὰν χέρα, in the formula of manumission, [Refs (“IG” 9(1).189, 194 (from Tithora))]:—middle, borrow, τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 191 (Lyric poetry), 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 30.20: _absolutely_, χρησαμένη γὰρ ἔνησα καὶ οὐκ ἔχω ἀνταποδοῦναι Batrachomyomachia 186)]; πόδας χρήσας, ὄμματα χρησάμενος having lent feet and borrowed eyes, of a blind man carrying a lame one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.13 (Plato Junior Epigrammaticus), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Demodocus” 384b, 384c.)]
B.II ={χρηματίζω}[Refs (111, τοῦ χρέοντος γραμματέως “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2562.18 (assuming variant, Hierapytna).)]