χράω
to lend
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5531 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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 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.
At its core, χραω (chráō) means “to lend.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Luke (100%). A true hapax — its single appearance is Luke 11:5. It shares a root with χραομαι, χρεια and χρη. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5531 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
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: Lend 1×
- American Standard Version: Lend 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lend 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lend 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5531 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5531 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5531 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5531 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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 lend
Word origin
Derived from χραομαι (chráomai) (G5530) — to borrow.
Probably the same as the base of G5530 ; to loan : - lend.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5531, 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
- χρεια chreía G5532 necessity
- χρη chrḗ G5534 it is necessary
- χρησις chrēsis G5540 use
- χρηστος chrēstós G5543 fit
- χριω chríō G5548 to anoint
- χρυσος chrysós G5557 gold
- χρως chrṓs G5559 skin
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χραω appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 8 books.
- 24
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 12:16 χράω
- Exodus 11:3 χράω
- Esther 1:19 χράω
- Job 10:17 χράω
- Proverbs 10:4 χράω
- Isaiah 28:21 χράω
- Jeremiah 13:7 χράω
- Daniel 1:13 χράω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5531) 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 12:16 χράω He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
- Genesis 26:29 χράω that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
- Genesis 34:31 χράω They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"
- Exodus 11:3 χράω 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 χράω Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.
- Esther 1:19 χράω If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it not be altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.
- Esther 2:9 χράω 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 3:11 χράω The king said to Haman, The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.
- Esther 9:12 χράω The king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? and it shall be granted you: or what is your request further? and it shall be done.
- Esther 9:27 χράω the Jews ordained, and took on them, and on their seed, and on all such as joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the writing of it, and according to the appointed time of it, every year;
- Job 10:17 χράω You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
- Job 13:20 χράω "Only don't do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face:
- Job 16:9 χράω He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
- Job 19:11 χράω He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
- Job 23:6 χράω Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
- Job 34:20 χράω In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, The mighty are taken away without hand.
- Proverbs 10:4 χράω He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, But the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
- Proverbs 24:29 χράω Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."
- Isaiah 28:21 χράω For Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
- Jeremiah 13:7 χράω Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the belt was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
- Jeremiah 13:10 χράω This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
- Daniel 1:13 χράω Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king's dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.
- Daniel 1:14 χράω So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5531) 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.
