chrēsimem

Strong’sG5539

useful, profitable

stem chrēsim-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

χρήσιμος, -η, -ον

(< χράομαι), [in LXX: Ge 37:26 בֶּצַע etc.;]

useful: II Ti 2:14.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5539 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkhray'-see-mos

serviceable

Fromfrom G5540;

King Jamesprofit.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

χρήσῐμ-ος, η, ον,
also ος, ον Refs 5th c.BC+: (χράμαι):— useful, serviceable, first in Refs 6th c.BC+; τὸ χ. φρενῶν the excellence of.., Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. εἴς τι useful for something, Refs 5th c.BC+[same place]; ἐπί τι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ χ. καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ κοινοῦ ὠφέλιμα Refs 5th c.BC+; χρήσιμόν ἐστι, with infinitive, Refs
2 of persons, serviceable, useful, Refs 5th c.BC+; comparative -ώτεροςRefs 5th c.BC+: especially, like{χρηστός}, a good and useful citizen, χ. πόλει Refs 5th c.BC+; τοὺς εὐπόρους δεῖ χ. αὑτοὺς παρέχειν τοῖς πολίταις to show themselves useful, serviceable to the state, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῖς σώμασι -ώτεροι more able-bodied, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἀργαλέος τὴν ὄψιν, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 used, made use of, τέμενος -ώτατον a muchfrequented sanctuary, uncertain in Refs 5th c.BC+
4 χρησίμη διαθήκη an available (i.e. authentic) will, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 νομίσματα οὐ χρήσιμα ἔξω money that will not pass abroad, Refs 5th c.BC+
II adverb, -μως ἔχειν to be serviceable, Refs 5th c.BC+; χ. τινὶ σωθῆναι with advantage to him, Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

good1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	chrēsimos	chrēsimas	chrēsimem1×χρήσιμον	chrēsimois	chrēsimais	chrēsimeim
object accusative	chrēsimon	chrēsiman		chrēsimoin	chrēsimain
direct address vocative	chrēsimor	chrēsimar		chrēsimoir	chrēsimair
of, belonging to genitive	chrēsimou	chrēsimau	chrēsimeu	chrēsimoiu	chrēsimaiu	chrēsimeiu
to, for dative	chrēsimo	chrēsima	chrēsime	chrēsimoi	chrēsimai	chrēsimei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

chrēsimstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

chrēsim is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

chrēsimem“good”subject or objectdirect singular1×

2 Timothy 2:14“good”… tou kuriou, mē logomacharō, epi oudenem chrēsimem, epi katastrofa toiu akouarōntoiu.Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.