noun · feminine
dōreas
Strong’sG1431
a free gift
stem dōre-11 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books4 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.
δωρεά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< δίδωμι), [in LXX chiefly (-άν) for חִנָּם, as Ge 29:15;]
SYN.: v.s. δόμα
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1431 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddo-reh-ah'
a gratuity
Fromfrom G1435;
King Jamesgift.
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
Ionic dialect δωρ-εή, ἡ: δωρειά in earlier Attic Inscrr., Refs:— gift, present, especially bounty (={δόσις ἀναπόδοτος} Refs 5th c.BC+; πορεῖνRefs 5th c.BC+; δ. δέχεσθαι, λαμβάνειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; δωρειὰν καὶ χάριν Refs 5th c.BC+; of a legacy, Refs 4th c.BC+; δωρεαί privileges and immunities, opposed to δῶρα, gifts in cash or kind, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 estate granted by a king, fief, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II accusative δωρεάν as adverb, as a free gift, freely, LXX+5th c.BC+; so κατὰ δωρεάν Refs 1st c.AD+; ἐν δωρεᾷ προσνεῖμαι Refs 2nd c.BC+; but γῆν (ἀμπελῶνα, etc.) ἐν δωρεᾷ ἔχειν to hold land by a royal grant, PRev. Laws Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2 to no purpose, for naught, NT
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 | dōreas2×δωρεὰ | dōreais |
| object accusative | dōrean5×δωρεὰν | dōreain |
| direct address vocative | dōrear | dōreair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dōreau3×δωρεᾶς | dōreaiu |
| to, for dative | dōrea1×δωρεᾷ | dōreai |
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
dōrea 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.
11 occurrences, every one of them listed
dōreas“gift”subjectnominative singular2×
Acts 10:45… hoti kai epi teim ethneim tas dōreas teu hagieu pneumeu ekchotē;… accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been …
Romans 5:15… tas charitas tou theou kai tas dōreas en charita ta tou henou anthrōpou …… more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of …
dōrean“gift”objectaccusative singular5×
John 4:10… kai legata auta; Ei oidaselē tan dōrean tou theou kai tinos atō tos …Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking …
Acts 2:38… taiu hamartaiu vu, kai labevi tan dōrean teu hagieu pneumeu;… sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 8:20… si atoiō eis apōleian hoti tan dōrean tou theou nomizasa dia chrēmeiu ktorō.… you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
Acts 11:17ei oun tan isan dōrean dōata autoi tos theos hōs kai …… if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in …
Ephesians 3:7heu genima diakonos kata tan dōrean tau charitau tou theou tau dōirantau …… servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through …
dōreau“gift”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Romans 5:17… tan perisseian tau charitau kai tau dōreau tau dikaiosunau labarōntois en zōa basilali …… abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through …
Ephesians 4:7… tas charitas kata tem metrem tau dōreau tou Christou.… according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Hebrews 6:4… toin hapax fōtizirantoin geuerantoin tē tau dōreau tau epouranau kai metochoin genirantoin pneumeu …… enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy …
dōrea“gift”to, fordative singular1×
2 Corinthians 9:15… to theo epi ta anekdiēgēta autou dōrea.… be to God for His indescribable gift!