χρηματίζω
chrēmatízō · G5537 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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to make known God’s message, to reveal a message from God
To make known a divine revelation
ExamplesMatthew 2:12 And after being warned by God in a dream not to return to Herod, the magi left for their own country by another way.
Matthew 2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Then after being warned by God in a dream, he left for the regions of Galilee,
Luke 2:26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
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to call, to give a name to, to give a title to
To give a name or title to
ExamplesActs 11:26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers of people; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
Romans 7:3 So then, if while her husband is alive she gives herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she gives herself to another man.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated (participle) 4
- ΚορνήλιοςCornelius 1
- ΜωσεύςMoses 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀνακάμπτωto move back 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- κατάaccording to, against, down+ ὄναρdream 2
- ἐπίon+ γῆearth 1
- περίconcerning, about, for+ βλέπωto see 1
- ὑπόby, under+ ἄγγελοςangel, messenger 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
- παραιτέομαιto ask for 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- דָבַר dâbar · H1696 · to destroy, to get rid of, to do away with
- χρηματίζω emphasizes divine oracle/revelation contexts (being warned/instructed by God), while דָבַר is the general Hebrew verb for speaking/declaring across all contexts; the Greek term appears in LXX primarily when דָבַר carries the specific sense of divine communication.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To make known God’s message, to reveal a message from God28.39
- Luke 2:26 says, “it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.”
- To call, to give a name to, to give a title to33.127
- Acts 11:26 says that in Antioch “the disciples were first called Christians”.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon future χρηματίσω (Rom 7:3 (cf. Buttmann, 37 (33)); in Greek writings everywhere the Attic…
1. "to transact business, especially to manage public affairs; to advise or consult with one about public affairs; to make answer to those who ask advice, present inquiries or requests," etc.; used of judges, magistrates, rulers, kings. Hence, in some later Greek writings,
2. to give a response to those consulting an oracle (Diodorus 3, 6; 15, 10; Plutarch, mor., p. 435 c. (i. e. de defect. oracc. 46); several times in Lucian); hence, used of God in Josephus, Antiquities 5, 1, 14; 10, 1, 3; 11, 8, 4; universally, (dropping all reference to a previous consultation), to give a divine command or admonition, to teach from heaven ((Jer 32:16)): with a dative of the person Job 40:3; passive followed by an infinitive (A. V. revealed etc.), Lk 2:26 (χρηματίζειν λόγους πρός τινα, Jer 37:2); passive, to be divinely commanded, admonished, instructed (R. V. warned of God), Mt 2:12, Mt 2:22; Acts 10:22; Heb 8:5; Heb 11:7 (this passive use is hardly found elsewhere except in Josephus, Antiquities 3, 8, 8; (11, 8, 4); cf. Buttmann, § 134, 4; (Winers Grammar, § 39, 1 a.)); to be the mouthpiece of divine revelations, to promulge the commands of God, (τίνι, Jer 33:2; Jer 36:23: of Moses, Heb 12:25 (R. V. warned).
3. to assume or take to oneself a name from one's public business (Polybius, Diodorus, Plutarch, others); universally, to receive a name or title, be called: Acts 11:26; Rom 7:3 (Josephus, Antiquities (8, 6, 2); 13, 11, 3; b. j. 2, 18, 7; (c. Apion. 2, 3, 1; Philo, quod deus immut. § 25 at the end; leg. ad Gaium § 43); Ἀντίοχον τόν Ἐπιφανῆ χρηματίζοντα, Diodorus in Müller's fragment vol. ii, p. 17, no. 21:4; Ἰάκωβον τόν χρηματισαντα ἀδελφόν τοῦ κυρίου, Acta Philippi at the beginning, p. 75; Tdf. edition; Ἰακώβου... ὅν καί ἀδελφόν τοῦ Χριστοῦ χρηματίσαι οἱ Θειοι λόγοι περιέχουσιν, Eus. h. e. 7, 19; (cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, 2)).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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