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χάρισμα

chárisma · G5486 · Greek · 17 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. gift, gracious gift

    (Derivative of χαρίζομαι ‘to give graciously and generously,’) That which is given freely and generously

    Examples

    Romans 1:11 For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established;

    Romans 5:15 But the gracious gift is not like the offense. For if by the offense of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many.

    Romans 5:16 The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one offense, resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the gracious gift arose from many offenses, resulting in justification.

How it’s used In 8 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

5 occurrences in 2 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

5 occurrences in 6 groups

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

8 occurrences in 6 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 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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Near synonyms 3 words
δόμα dóma · G1390 · gift
Both denote gifts given freely, with χάρισμα emphasizing divine grace and spiritual endowment, while δόμα is the more general term for any gift or present.
δωρεά dōreá · G1431 · gift, present
Both denote a freely given gift, with χάρισμα emphasizing the grace-grounded nature of the gift (often applied to spiritual endowments or divine deliverances) and δωρεά emphasizing the character of something given as a grant or bestowal, though both share the core sense of an unmerited gift.
δώρημα dṓrēma · G1434 · gift, present
Both denote something freely given or bestowed, with χάρισμα emphasizing the gracious character of the gift (particularly divine spiritual endowments) and δώρημα focusing on the act or fact of bestowal itself.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Gift, gracious gift57.103
Romans 1:11 has Paul say, “I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established.”
Word family 12 words

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

χαίρω chaírō · G5463 · to rejoice, to be glad, hail · 74×χάρις cháris · G5485 · to show kindness, to manifest graciousness toward, kindness · 155×χαρά chará · G5479 · joy, gladness, great happiness · 59×εὐχαριστέω eucharistéō · G2168 · to thank, to give thanks, to be thankful · 38×χαρίζομαι charízomai · G5483 · to give, to grant, to bestow generously · 23×χάρισμαchárisma · G5486εὐχαριστία eucharistía · G2169 · thanksgiving, thankfulness · 15×χάριν chárin · G5484 · because of, by reason of, for the purpose of · 9×συγχαίρω synchaírō · G4796 · to enjoy with, to rejoice with · 7×ἀχάριστος acháristos · G884 · unthankful, ungrateful · 2×χαριτόω charitóō · G5487 · to show kindness, to manifest graciousness toward, kindness · 2×εὐχάριστος eucháristos · G2170 · thankful, thanking, grateful · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon χαρίσματος, τό (χαρίζομαι), a gift of grace; a favor which one receives without any merit…
χαρίσματος, τό (χαρίζομαι), a gift of grace; a favor which one receives without any merit of his own; in the N. T. (where (except 1 Pet 4:10) used only by Paul) the gift of divine grace (so also in Philo de alleg. legg. iii. § 24 at the end δωρεά καί εὐεργεσία καί χάρισμα Θεοῦ τά πάντα ὅσα ἐν κόσμῳ καί αὐτός ὁ κόσμος ἐστιν); used of the natural gift of continence, due to the grace of God as creator, 1 Cor 7:7; deliverance from great peril to life, τό εἰς ἡμᾶς χάρισμα bestowed upon us, 2 Cor 1:11; the gift of faith, knowledge, holiness, virtue, Rom 1:11; the economy of divine grace, by which the pardon of sin and eternal salvation is appointed to sinners in consideration of the merits of Christ laid hold of by faith, Rom 5:15; Rom 6:23; plural of the several blessings of the Christian salvation, Rom 11:29; in the technical Pauline sense χαρίσματα (A. V. gifts) denote "extraordinary powers, distinguishing certain Christians and enabling them to serve the church of Christ, the reception of which is due to the power of divine grace operating in their souls by the Holy Spirit" (cf. Cremer in Herzog edition 2 vol. v. 10ff, under the word Geistesgaben): Rom 12:6; 1 Cor 1:7; 1 Cor 12:4, 1 Cor 12:31; 1 Pet 4:10; χαρίσματα ἰαμάτων, 1 Cor 12:9, 1 Cor 12:28, 1 Cor 12:30; specifically, the sum of those powers requisite for the discharge of the office of an evangelist: 1 Tim 4:14; 2 Tim 1:6. ((Of temporal blessings, 'Teaching 1, 5 [ET] (cf. δώρημα in Hermas, mand. 2, 4 [ET])); ecclesiastical writings.)

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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