Strong G5535χρῄζω
to need
- Transliteration
- chrēzō
- Pronunciation
- khrade'-zo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G5532; to make (that is have) necessity that is be in want of: - (have) need.
Detailed definition
χρῄζω
(χρή) [in LXX Jdg.11:7, 1Ki.17:18 A *;]
to need, have need of: with genitive of thing(s), Mat.6:32, Luk.11:8 12:30, 2Co.3:1; with genitive of person(s) before ἐν, Rom.16:2.†
(AS)
(χρή) [in LXX Jdg.11:7, 1Ki.17:18 A *;]
to need, have need of: with genitive of thing(s), Mat.6:32, Luk.11:8 12:30, 2Co.3:1; with genitive of person(s) before ἐν, Rom.16:2.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5535 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- need4
- needeth1
First verses
- Matthew 6:32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
- Luke 11:8I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
- Luke 12:30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
- Romans 16:2That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
- 2 Corinthians 3:1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
Occurrences by book
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
χρῄζω,
[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 958, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 376, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 891 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.109, etc.; in _Attic dialect_ hardly found except in)]present and imperfect (but see below [Refs (11))]: Epic dialect and Ionic dialect χρηΐζω, as always in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, and 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.41, 5.19, 30, 9.87)]; written χρηιίζω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 57.41 (Milet., 5th c.BC))]; also χρεΐζω, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.64)]; Doric dialect χρῄζω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 56.23 (Argos, 5th c.BC))]; also χρήζω [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. work]1006.3 (Cos, 3rd c.BC))]; χρείζω [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. work]953.27 (Calymna, 2nd c.BC))]: sicil. Doric dialect χρῄσδω [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 8.11)]; Megarian dialect Doric dialect χρῄδδω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 734)]: future χρῄσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 99a)], Ionic dialect χρηΐσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.38)]: aorist Ionic dialect χρηΐσαι probably [Refs ([prev. author] 5.65)]; participle χρηΐσας[Refs ([prev. work] 20, 7.38)]: (χρή):—want, lack, have need of, with genitive, χρηΐζοντα.. ἰητῆρος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.835; εἴρετο.. ὅττευ χρηΐζων ἱκόμην 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.121, compare 558; οὐδ᾽ ἐμοῦ διδασκάλου χρῄζεις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 376)]; δύο χρῄσει [μεσοτάτων] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus)] [same place]: absolutely in participle χρηΐζων needy, poor, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.340, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 351.)]
2 desire, long for, crave, χρηΐζειν ἀπεόντος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 367; τοῦτον ὦν δοκέω.. ποιήσειν ὧν ἂν χρηΐζωμεν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.30; χρημάτων χ. [prev. author] 9.87; βορᾶς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 530)]; τοῦ μακροῦ χ. βίου Soph.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Aj.” 473: rarely with _accusative_, πᾶν μᾶλλον δοκέων μιν χρηΐσειν ἢ τὸ ἐδεήθη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.38; ὥστ᾽ ἄλλα χρῄζειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 595, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 123)]; an infinitive may frequently be supplied, φράζε.. ὅ τι χρῄζεις (i.e. φράζειν) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 359, compare 453 (both _anapaest meter_); ἴθ᾽ ὅποι χρῄζεις (i.e. ἰέναι) [prev. work] 891 (_anapaest meter_),compare “Th.” 751, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 928, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 365)]; τί δῆτα χρῄζει;[Refs ([prev. work] 622, “OC” 643.)]
2.b with accusative person et infinitive, ask or desire that one should do a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.41, 112, 152, +others)]; so with genitive person et infinitive, desire of one to do, [Refs ([prev. author] 5.19, 65, 9.55)]; in Trag., with infinitive only, desire to do a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 235, 285, +others, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 91, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 347, etc.: rare in Prose, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.109, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.15.)]
2.c with double genitive person et of things, τῶνδε ἐγὼ ὑμέων χρηΐζων συνέλεξα hdt.[Refs (7.53.)]
2.d χρῄζειν παρά τινος with infinitive, Ps.-[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus “Vitae Homeri” 17.)]
3 participle χρῄζων is used absolutely for εἰ χρῄζει, if one will, if one chooses, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 958, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 340 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἄλλα φανεῖ χρῄζων (i.e. Ἑρμῆς) if propitious, [Refs ([prev. work] [815] (Lyric poetry))]; ἢν τὸν θεὸν χρῄζοντ᾽ ἔχῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 597)]; ποταγγελλέτω ὁ χρῄζων, ={ὁ βουλόμενος}, [Refs (“IG” 12(1).677.34 (from Ialysus))]; also τὸ χρῇζον your solicitation, E.IA 1017.
II passive, χρησθείς is falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 24.)]
[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 958, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 376, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 891 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.109, etc.; in _Attic dialect_ hardly found except in)]present and imperfect (but see below [Refs (11))]: Epic dialect and Ionic dialect χρηΐζω, as always in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, and 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.41, 5.19, 30, 9.87)]; written χρηιίζω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 57.41 (Milet., 5th c.BC))]; also χρεΐζω, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.64)]; Doric dialect χρῄζω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 56.23 (Argos, 5th c.BC))]; also χρήζω [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. work]1006.3 (Cos, 3rd c.BC))]; χρείζω [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. work]953.27 (Calymna, 2nd c.BC))]: sicil. Doric dialect χρῄσδω [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 8.11)]; Megarian dialect Doric dialect χρῄδδω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 734)]: future χρῄσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 99a)], Ionic dialect χρηΐσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.38)]: aorist Ionic dialect χρηΐσαι probably [Refs ([prev. author] 5.65)]; participle χρηΐσας[Refs ([prev. work] 20, 7.38)]: (χρή):—want, lack, have need of, with genitive, χρηΐζοντα.. ἰητῆρος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.835; εἴρετο.. ὅττευ χρηΐζων ἱκόμην 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.121, compare 558; οὐδ᾽ ἐμοῦ διδασκάλου χρῄζεις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 376)]; δύο χρῄσει [μεσοτάτων] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus)] [same place]: absolutely in participle χρηΐζων needy, poor, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.340, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 351.)]
2 desire, long for, crave, χρηΐζειν ἀπεόντος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 367; τοῦτον ὦν δοκέω.. ποιήσειν ὧν ἂν χρηΐζωμεν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.30; χρημάτων χ. [prev. author] 9.87; βορᾶς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 530)]; τοῦ μακροῦ χ. βίου Soph.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Aj.” 473: rarely with _accusative_, πᾶν μᾶλλον δοκέων μιν χρηΐσειν ἢ τὸ ἐδεήθη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.38; ὥστ᾽ ἄλλα χρῄζειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 595, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 123)]; an infinitive may frequently be supplied, φράζε.. ὅ τι χρῄζεις (i.e. φράζειν) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 359, compare 453 (both _anapaest meter_); ἴθ᾽ ὅποι χρῄζεις (i.e. ἰέναι) [prev. work] 891 (_anapaest meter_),compare “Th.” 751, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 928, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 365)]; τί δῆτα χρῄζει;[Refs ([prev. work] 622, “OC” 643.)]
2.b with accusative person et infinitive, ask or desire that one should do a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.41, 112, 152, +others)]; so with genitive person et infinitive, desire of one to do, [Refs ([prev. author] 5.19, 65, 9.55)]; in Trag., with infinitive only, desire to do a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 235, 285, +others, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 91, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 347, etc.: rare in Prose, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.109, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.15.)]
2.c with double genitive person et of things, τῶνδε ἐγὼ ὑμέων χρηΐζων συνέλεξα hdt.[Refs (7.53.)]
2.d χρῄζειν παρά τινος with infinitive, Ps.-[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus “Vitae Homeri” 17.)]
3 participle χρῄζων is used absolutely for εἰ χρῄζει, if one will, if one chooses, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 958, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 340 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἄλλα φανεῖ χρῄζων (i.e. Ἑρμῆς) if propitious, [Refs ([prev. work] [815] (Lyric poetry))]; ἢν τὸν θεὸν χρῄζοντ᾽ ἔχῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 597)]; ποταγγελλέτω ὁ χρῄζων, ={ὁ βουλόμενος}, [Refs (“IG” 12(1).677.34 (from Ialysus))]; also τὸ χρῇζον your solicitation, E.IA 1017.
II passive, χρησθείς is falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 24.)]