χάρις
grace
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
3 verses where G5485 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of Hebrews. 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.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 4:16 χάριτος χάριν n gen sg fem n acc sg fem Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
- Hebrews 10:29 χάριτος n gen sg fem How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
- Hebrews 12:15 χάριτος n gen sg fem looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
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.
χαρις — transliterated cháris — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “grace.” Thayer's distinguishes 4 senses for it. With 147 verses in 23 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Luke 1:30, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside χαιρω, χαρα and χαριζομαι. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5485 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 →
- 147
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 147 distinct verses.
- 23 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 23 of 27 New Testament books.
- #103
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 103 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 147 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 21 verses 14%
- 2 Corinthians 18 verses 12%
- Acts 17 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 147 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 95 verses · 65%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 25 verses · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 15 verses · 10%
- Gospels 11 verses · 7%
- Hebrews 7 verses · 5%
- Johannine 6 verses · 4%
- Revelation 2 verses · 1%
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: Grace 130×, Favour 6×, Thank 4×
- American Standard Version: Grace 124×, Favor 8×, Thank 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Grace 121×, Thanks 6×, Favor 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Grace 127×, Favor 11×, Of 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5485 across 154 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5485 across 153 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 G5485 across 153 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5485 across 172 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 4 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.
- grace
- good will, loving-kindness, favour
- what is due to grace
- thanks, (for benefits, services, favours), recompense, reward
Word origin
Derived from χαιρω (chaírō) (G5463) — to rejoice.
From G5463 ; graciousness (as gratifying ) of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart and its reflection in the life; including gratitude ): - acceptable benefit favour gift grace (-ious) joy liberality pleasure thank (-s -worthy).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G5485 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χάρις cháris | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 2:40 | 59 |
| χάριν chárin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 1:30 | 41 |
| χάριτος cháritos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 4:22 | 27 |
| χάριτι cháriti | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 2:52 | 22 |
| χάριτί chárití | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 2:5 | 2 |
| χάριτα chárita | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 24:27 | 2 |
| Χάριν Chárin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Timothy 1:3 | 1 |
| Χάρις Cháris | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 8:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5485, 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 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χαρις appears 78 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 76 verses in 16 books.
- 78
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 76
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:8 χάρις
- Exodus 3:21 χάρις
- Numbers 11:11 χάρις
- Deuteronomy 24:1 χάρις
- Ruth 2:2 χάρις
- 1 Samuel 1:18 χάρις
- 2 Samuel 14:22 χάρις
- 1 Kings 11:19 χάρις
- 2 Chronicles 7:21 χάρις
- Esther 2:9 χάρις
- Psalms 44:3 χάρις
- Proverbs 1:9 χάρις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5485) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 76. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:8 χάρις But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.
- Genesis 18:3 χάρις and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.
- Genesis 30:27 χάρις Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
- Genesis 32:6 χάρις The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
- Genesis 33:8 χάρις Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 33:10 χάρις Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
- Genesis 33:15 χάρις Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 34:11 χάρις Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
- Genesis 39:4 χάρις Joseph found favor in his sight. He ministered to him, and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
- Genesis 39:21 χάρις But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
- Genesis 43:14 χάρις May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
- Genesis 47:25 χάρις They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."
- Genesis 47:29 χάρις The time drew near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don't bury me in Egypt,
- Genesis 50:4 χάρις When the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
- Exodus 3:21 χάρις I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
- Exodus 11:3 χάρις Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
- Exodus 12:36 χάρις Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.
- Exodus 33:12 χάρις Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'
- Exodus 33:13 χάρις Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."
- Exodus 33:16 χάρις For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"
- Exodus 33:17 χάρις Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."
- Exodus 34:9 χάρις He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."
- Numbers 11:11 χάρις Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
- Numbers 32:5 χάρις They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan.
- Deuteronomy 24:1 χάρις When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
- Ruth 2:2 χάρις Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. She said to her, Go, my daughter.
- Ruth 2:10 χάρις Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?
- Ruth 2:13 χάρις Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.
- 1 Samuel 1:18 χάρις She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.
- 1 Samuel 16:22 χάρις Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.
- 1 Samuel 20:3 χάρις David swore moreover, and said, Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
- 1 Samuel 20:29 χάρις and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers. Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
- 1 Samuel 25:8 χάρις Ask your young men, and they will tell you: therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.
- 1 Samuel 27:5 χάρις David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?
- 2 Samuel 14:22 χάρις Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.
- 2 Samuel 15:25 χάρις The king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:
- 2 Samuel 16:4 χάρις Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, all that pertains to Mephibosheth is yours. Ziba said, I do obeisance; let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.
- 1 Kings 11:19 χάρις Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
- 2 Chronicles 7:21 χάρις This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
- Esther 2:9 χάρις The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her things for her purification, with her portions, and the seven maidens who were meet to be given her out of the king's house: and he removed her and her maidens to the best place of the house of the women.
- Esther 2:15 χάρις Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
- Esther 2:17 χάρις The king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
- Esther 5:6 χάρις The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, What is your petition? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
- Esther 6:3 χάρις The king said, What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then the king's servants who ministered to him said, "Nothing has been done for him."
- Esther 7:3 χάρις Then Esther the queen answered, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
- Esther 8:5 χάρις She said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces:
- Psalms 44:3 χάρις For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, Because you were favorable to them.
- Psalms 83:12 χάρις Who said, "Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands."
- Proverbs 1:9 χάρις For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.
- Proverbs 3:3 χάρις Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5485) 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.
