χαρίζομαι
to favor
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
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- 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”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 14 distinct
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 6 times (26%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Infinitive 2 times (9%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (9%)
- Verb, Perfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 2 times (9%)
- Verb, Perfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (9%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (4%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (4%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (4%)
+6 more forms (6 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 23 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5483 appears — 19 distinct verses across 10 books. 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 3 verses
- Luke 7:21 ἐχαρίσατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
- Luke 7:42 ἐχαρίσατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"
- Luke 7:43 ἐχαρίσατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."
Acts 4 verses
- Acts 3:14 χαρισθῆναι aor pass inf But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
- Acts 25:11 χαρίσασθαι aor mid.dep inf For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"
- Acts 25:16 χαρίζεσθαί pres mid/pass.dep inf To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
- Acts 27:24 κεχάρισταί perf mid/pass.dep ind 3sg saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 2:7 χαρίσασθαι aor mid.dep inf so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
- 2 Corinthians 2:10 χαρίζεσθε κεχάρισμαι κεχάρισμαι pres mid/pass.dep ind 2pl perf mid/pass.dep ind 1sg perf mid/pass.dep ind 1sg Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,
- 2 Corinthians 12:13 χαρίσασθέ aor mid.dep impv 2pl For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
Galatians 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
Philippians 2 verses
Colossians 2 verses
- Colossians 2:13 χαρισάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
- Colossians 3:13 χαριζόμενοι ἐχαρίσατο pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom pl masc aor mid.dep ind 3sg bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
Philemon 1 verse
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.
χαριζομαι (charízomai) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to favor.” Scripture first uses it in Luke 7:21. Spanning 19 verses in 10 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Sharing its root, it stands alongside χαρις, χαριν and χαριτοω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5483 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 →
- 19
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 19 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #563
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 563 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 19 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 4 verses 21%
- Luke 3 verses 16%
- 2 Corinthians 3 verses 16%
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 19 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 12 verses · 63%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 37%
- Gospels 3 verses · 16%
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: Deliver 2×, Forgave 2×, Forgive 2×
- American Standard Version: Forgave 2×, Forgive 2×, Forgiving 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Forgave 2×, Forgive 2×, He forgave 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Favor 2×, Forgave 2×, Forgive 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5483 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 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 G5483 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 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 G5483 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 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 G5483 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 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 1 sense 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 do something pleasant or agreeable (to one), to do a favour to, gratify
Word origin
Derived from χαρις (cháris) (G5485) — grace.
Middle voice from G5485 ; to grant as a favor that is gratuitously in kindness pardon or rescue : - deliver (frankly) forgive (freely) give grant.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 15 distinct written forms G5483 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 G5483, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χαριζομαι appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Esther 8:7 χαρίζομαι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5483) 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.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5483) 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.
