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δωρεά

dōreá · G1431 · Greek · 11 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. gift, present

    (Derivative of δωρέομαι ‘to give, to grant,’) That which is given or granted

    Examples

    John 4:10 Jesus replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

    Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

    Acts 8:20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire the gift of God with money!

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

9 occurrences in 7 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 5 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Gift, present57.84
Used of something given generously, as of the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abounding to many in Romans 5:15, and the gift following many transgressions resulting in justification, unlike the judgment that followed one transgression, in Romans 5:17.
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

δῶρον dōron · G1435 · gift, present, offering box · 19×δωρεάdōreá · G1431δωρεάν dōreán · G1432 · without cost, as a free gift, without paying · 9×δωρέομαι dōréomai · G1433 · to give, to bestow, to grant · 3×δώρημα dṓrēma · G1434 · gift, present · 2×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δωρεᾶς, ἡ (δίδωμι); from (Aeschyh and) Herodotus down; a gift: Jn 4:10; Acts 8:20; Acts…
δωρεᾶς, ἡ (δίδωμι); from (Aeschyh and) Herodotus down; a gift: Jn 4:10; Acts 8:20; Acts 11:17; Rom 5:15; 2 Cor 9:15; Heb 6:4; ἡ χάρις ἐδόθη κατά τό μέτρον τῆς δωρεᾶς τοῦ Χριστοῦ, according to the measure in which Christ gave it, Eph 4:7; with an epexegetical genitive of the thing given, viz. τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, Acts 2:38; Acts 10:45; δικαιοσύνης, Rom 5:17 (L WH Tr marginal reading brackets τῆς δωρεᾶς); τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Θεοῦ, Eph 3:7. The accusative δωρεάν (properly, as a gift, gift-wise (cf. Winers Grammar, 230 (216); Buttmann, 153 (134))) is used adverbially; the Sept. for חִנָּם;
a. freely, for naught, gratis, gratuitously: Mt 10:8; Rom 3:24; 2 Cor 11:7; 2 Thess 3:8; Rev 21:6; Rev 22:17 (Polybius 18, 17, 7; Ex 21:11; δωρεάν ἄνευ ἀργυρίου, Isa 52:3).
b. by a usage of which as yet no example has been noted from Greek writings, without just cause, unnecessarily: Jn 15:25 (Ps 68:5; Ps 34:19; Gal 2:21 (Job 1:9 (?); Ps 34:7 (where Symm. ἀναιτίως); so the Latingratuitus: Livy 2, 42gratuitus furor, Seneca, epistles 105, 3 (book xviii., epistle 2, § 3)odium aut est ex offensa... aut gratuitum). (Synonym: see δόμα, at the end.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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