Greek noun (feminine) · G1431
δωρεά
doreado-reh-ah'
free gift
11 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dōreá
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1431is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1431
a gratuity
The King James renders it: gift.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
dorea is rendered "free gift". It stands 11 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
John 4:10δωρεὰν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eleven uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- gift11
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- δωρεὰν5
- δωρεᾶς3
- δωρεὰ2
- δωρεᾷ.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular5N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
John
one use
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
- δωρεὰνdoreannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: gift
Acts
four uses
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- δωρεὰνdoreannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: gift
But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
- δωρεὰνdoreannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: gift
All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
- δωρεὰdoreanoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: gift
So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?”
- δωρεὰνdoreannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: gift
Romans
two uses
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
- δωρεὰdoreanoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: gift
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
- δωρεᾶςdoreasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: gift
2 Corinthians
one use
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
- δωρεᾷ.¶doreanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: gift
Ephesians
two uses
I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.
- δωρεὰνdoreannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: gift
Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
- δωρεᾶςdoreasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: gift
Hebrews
one use
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
- δωρεᾶςdoreasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: gift
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.