Greek noun (feminine) · G5540
χρῆσις
chresiskhray'-sis
use
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chrēsis
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5540is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5540
employment, i.e. (specially), sexual intercourse (as an occupation of the body)
The King James renders it: use.
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
chresis is rendered "use". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
The first use
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Romans 1:26χρῆσιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- use2
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χρηστότης | chrestotes | kindness | Uses10 |
| χρηστός | chrestos | good/kind | Uses7 |
| χρήσιμος | chresimos | profitable | Uses1 |
| χρηστεύομαι | chresteuomai | be kind | Uses1 |
| χρηστολογία | chrestologia | smooth talk | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- χρῆσιν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
Romans
two uses
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- χρῆσινchresinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: use
Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
- χρῆσινchresinnoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: use
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.