noun · feminine
chrēsias
Strong’sG5540
usage, use
stem chrēsi-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
χρῆσις, -εως, ἡ
(< χράομαι), [in LXX: I Ki 1:28 (שׁאל), Si 18:8, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5540 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhray'-sis
employment, i.e. (specially), sexual intercourse (as an occupation of the body)
Fromfrom G5530;
King Jamesuse.
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
(χράομαι)
Iemployment, use made of a thing, ἀνέμων Refs 5th c.BC+; τὴν κατ᾽ ἀξίαν χ. ποιοῦνται ἑκάστῳ (perhaps to be read ἑκάστου) Refs 4th c.AD+; use, practice, Refs 5th c.BC+; in plural, uses, advantages, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἱ ἐς τὰ πολεμικὰ χ. the uses of war, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to κτῆσις, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to πώλησις, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 usefulness, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἀχρηστία, Refs 5th c.BC+so as to become useful, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔχειν χρῆσιν to be useful, Refs 4th c.BC+
I.3 intimacy, acquaintance, ἡ οἰκειότης καὶ ἡ χ. [τῆς πόλεως] NT+5th c.BC+; τὰ ἐν χρήσει familiar objects, Refs 3rd c.AD+
I.4 Grammars, usage, of words, ἡ ἐξαλλαγὴ τῆς συνήθους χ. Refs 1st c.BC+; ἀναστρέφων τὰς χ. Refs 2nd c.AD+; in concrete sense, example of a word or use, πυκνῶς αἱ χ. παρὰ Αἰολεῦσιν Refs; passage cited, falsa lectio for{κρίσει} in Refs 1st c.BC+; indicated by the symbol ☧, Refs 3rd c.AD+; ☧ Ἀριστοφάνους (referring to Refs
II (χράω (B) A), oracular response, ἀπὸ κείνου χρήσιος at his bidding, Refs 5th c.BC+
III (χράω (B) B), lending, loan, Refs 4th 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.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chrēsias | chrēsiais |
| object accusative | chrēsian2×χρῆσιν | chrēsiain |
| direct address vocative | chrēsiar | chrēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | chrēsiau | chrēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | chrēsia | chrēsiai |
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
chrēsia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
chrēsian“relations”objectaccusative singular2×
Romans 1:26… gar thēluais autoiu metallaxala tan fusikan chrēsian eis tan para fusian,… passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Romans 1:27… kai tois arsenois afiēkarantois tan fusikan chrēsian tau thēluau ekkaiila en ta orexia …Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust …