χράω chraō

Greek word for “to use” · Strong’s G5530 · used 11 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

χράομαι, χρῶμαι; (χρή);

How it is translated

Glosses given for chraō in context, with how often each is used:

• using 2
• treating 1
• do take advantage 1
• did use 1
• have used 1
• did i use? 1
• use 1
• may treat 1
• shall use 1
• do use 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 27 (2), 1 Corinthians 7 (2), 1 Corinthians 9 (2), 2 Corinthians 1 (1), 2 Corinthians 3 (1), 2 Corinthians 13 (1), 1 Timothy 1 (1), 1 Timothy 5 (1)

Forms

• χρησάμενος 1
• ἐχρῶντο 1
• χρῆσαι 1
• χρώμενοι 1
• ἐχρησάμεθα 1
• κέχρημαι 1
• ἐχρησάμην 1
• χρώμεθα 1
• χρήσωμαι 1
• χρῆται 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chraō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• μᾶλλον mallon “more” 3
• καλός kalos “good” 2
• ἐξουσία exousia “authority” 2
• γράφω graphō “to write” 2
• τε te “and/both” 2
• οὕτως ohutō, ohutōs “thus(-ly)” 2
• ἤ ē “or” 2
• δίδωμι didōmi “to give” 2
• κατά kata “according to” 2
• εἰ ei “if” 2

Key verses

The verses using chraō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Acts 27:3 — And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
• Acts 27:17 — Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
• 1 Corinthians 7:21 — Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
• 1 Corinthians 7:31 — And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
• 1 Corinthians 9:12 — If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the…
• 1 Corinthians 9:15 — But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any…
• 2 Corinthians 1:17 — When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea,…
• 2 Corinthians 3:12 — Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
• 2 Corinthians 13:10 — Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and…
• 1 Timothy 1:8 — But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
• 1 Timothy 5:23 — Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.