χαλάω
to relax
‘to relax’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
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.
1 verse where G5465 appears in the Future tense in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
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.
χαλαω (chaláō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to relax.” Scripture first uses it in Mark 2:4. Spanning 7 verses in 4 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Acts dominates its distribution — 3 of 7 verses. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5465 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
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 7 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 71%
- Gospels 3 verses · 43%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 14%
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: I will let down 1×, Let down 1×, Strake 1×
- American Standard Version: Down 1×, Had lowered 1×, I will let down 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lowered 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I was lowered 1×, I will let down 1×, Let down 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5465 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5465 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5465 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5465 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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 loosen, slacken, relax
- to let down from a higher place to a lower
Word origin
Derived from χασμα (chásma) (G5490) — chasm.
From the base of G5490 ; to lower (as into a void ): - let down strike.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G5465 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χαλάσαντες chalásantes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 9:25 | 2 |
| χαλάσατε chalásate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 5:4 | 1 |
| χαλάσω chalásō | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | Luke 5:5 | 1 |
| χαλασάντων chalasántōn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Acts 27:30 | 1 |
| χαλῶσι chalō̂si | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Mark 2:4 | 1 |
| ἐχαλάσθην echalásthēn | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | 2 Corinthians 11:33 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5465, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- κητος kētos G2785 sea monster
- χαμαι chamaí G5476 to the ground
- χειλος cheîlos G5491 lip
- χειμων cheimṓn G5494 winter
- χηρα chḗra G5503 widow
- χιων chiṓn G5510 snow
- χωρα chṓra G5561 region
Derived from this word
- χαλαζα chálaza G5464 hail
- χαλεπος chalepós G5467 hard
- χαλινος chalinós G5469 bridle
- χαλκος chalkós G5475 brass
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χαλαω appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 3 books.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 36:28 χαλάω
- Isaiah 33:23 χαλάω
- Jeremiah 45:6 χαλάω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5465) 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.
- Exodus 36:28 χαλάω He made two boards for the corners of the tent in the far part.
- Isaiah 33:23 χαλάω Your rigging is untied; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
- Isaiah 57:4 χαλάω Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
- Jeremiah 45:6 χαλάω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5465) 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.
