χαίρω
to rejoice
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive deponent
- Passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
2 verses where G5463 appears in the Present tense in the Book of 2 John. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 John
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to rejoice” is the headline sense of the Greek verb χαιρω (chaírō). Catalogued under 5 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The Greek New Testament uses it across 68 verses — moderately common. First canonically at Matthew 2:10, it enters the text early. It shares a root with χαρα and χαρις. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5463 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 68
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 68 distinct verses.
- 16 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 16 of 27 New Testament books.
- #231
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 231 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 68 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 11 verses 16%
- John 9 verses 13%
- 2 Corinthians 8 verses 12%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 68 distinct verses.
- Gospels 28 verses · 41%
- Pauline corpus 25 verses · 37%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 18 verses · 26%
- Johannine 15 verses · 22%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 6 verses · 9%
- Revelation 2 verses · 3%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Rejoice 12×, Hail 5×, Rejoicing 5×
- American Standard Version: Rejoice 19×, Greeting 5×, Hail 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rejoice 13×, Greetings 6×, I rejoice 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rejoice 24×, Rejoicing 10×, I rejoice 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5463 across 77 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5463 across 76 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 21 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5463 across 71 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5463 across 77 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 5 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to rejoice, be glad
- to rejoice exceedingly
- to be well, thrive
- in salutations, hail!
- at the beginning of letters: to give one greeting, salute
Word origin
Origin: a primary verb
A primary verb; to be full of cheer that is calmly happy or well off; impersonal especially as a salutation (on meeting or parting) be well : - farewell be glad God speed greeting hail joy (-fully) rejoice.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 27 distinct written forms G5463 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5463, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χαιρω appears 40 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 38 verses in 18 books.
- 40
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 38
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 45:16 χαίρω
- Exodus 4:14 χαίρω
- 1 Samuel 19:5 χαίρω
- 1 Kings 2:46 χαίρω
- 2 Kings 11:14 χαίρω
- Esther 8:15 χαίρω
- Psalms 95:12 χαίρω
- Proverbs 2:14 χαίρω
- Isaiah 13:3 χαίρω
- Jeremiah 7:34 χαίρω
- Lamentations 1:21 χαίρω
- Ezekiel 7:12 χαίρω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5463) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 45:16 χαίρω The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
- Exodus 4:14 χαίρω The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
- Exodus 4:31 χαίρω The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
- 1 Samuel 19:5 χαίρω for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?
- 1 Kings 2:46 χαίρω So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 5:21 χαίρω
- 1 Kings 8:66 χαίρω On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.
- 2 Kings 11:14 χαίρω and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
- 2 Kings 11:20 χαίρω So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king's house.
- 2 Kings 20:13 χαίρω Hezekiah listened to them, and shown them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
- Esther 8:15 χαίρω Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.
- Psalms 95:12 χαίρω
- Proverbs 2:14 χαίρω Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;
- Proverbs 6:16 χαίρω There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
- Proverbs 17:19 χαίρω He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
- Proverbs 23:25 χαίρω Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
- Proverbs 24:19 χαίρω Don't fret yourself because of evildoers; Neither be envious of the wicked:
- Isaiah 13:3 χαίρω I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
- Isaiah 39:2 χαίρω Hezekiah was glad of them, and shown them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.
- Isaiah 48:22 χαίρω There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.
- Isaiah 57:21 χαίρω There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
- Isaiah 66:10 χαίρω Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
- Isaiah 66:14 χαίρω You shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.
- Jeremiah 7:34 χαίρω Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
- Jeremiah 38:13 χαίρω So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
- Lamentations 1:21 χαίρω They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.
- Lamentations 4:21 χαίρω Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.
- Ezekiel 7:12 χαίρω The time is come, the day draws near: don't let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all the multitude of it.
- Hosea 9:1 χαίρω Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; For you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
- Joel 2:21 χαίρω Land, don't be afraid. Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.
- Joel 2:23 χαίρω "Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in Yahweh, your God; For he gives you the former rain in just measure, And he causes the rain to come down for you, The former rain and the latter rain, As before.
- Jonah 4:6 χαίρω Yahweh God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
- Habakkuk 1:15 χαίρω He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
- Habakkuk 3:18 χαίρω Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
- Zephaniah 3:14 χαίρω Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
- Zechariah 4:10 χαίρω Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through the whole earth."
- Zechariah 9:9 χαίρω Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; Lowly, and riding on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Zechariah 10:7 χαίρω Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And their heart will rejoice as through wine; Yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5463) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
