χρηματίζω
to manage affairs
‘to manage affairs’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
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).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
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”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G5537 appears in the Present tense 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
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.
The Greek verb χρηματιζω centers on the idea of “to manage affairs.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 2:12. It appears 9 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Hebrews (33%), then Matthew and Acts. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. 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 G5537 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 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 9 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 33%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 33%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 11%
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: Being warned of god 3×
- American Standard Version: Being warned of god 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Having been warned 2×, Warned 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having been warned 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5537 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G5537 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 G5537 across 9 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 G5537 across 11 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.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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 transact business, esp. to manage public affairs
- to give a response to those consulting an oracle, to give a divine command or admonition, to teach from heaven
- to assume or take to one's self a name from one's public business
Word origin
Derived from χρημα (chrēma) (G5536) — thing.
From G5536 ; to utter an oracle (compare the original sense of G5530 ) that is divinely intimate ; by implication (compare the secular sense of G5532 ) to constitute a firm for business that is (genitive) bear as a title : - be called be admonished (warned) of God reveal speak.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G5537 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χρηματισθεὶς chrēmatistheìs | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 2:22 | 2 |
| κεχρημάτισται kechrēmátistai | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 8:5 | 1 |
| κεχρηματισμένον kechrēmatisménon | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 2:26 | 1 |
| χρηματίζοντα chrēmatízonta | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 12:25 | 1 |
| χρηματίσαι chrēmatísai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Acts 11:26 | 1 |
| χρηματίσει chrēmatísei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 7:3 | 1 |
| χρηματισθέντες chrēmatisthéntes | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 2:12 | 1 |
| ἐχρηματίσθη echrēmatísthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 10:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5537, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χρηματιζω appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 3 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- 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
- 1 Kings 18:27 χρηματίζω
- Job 40:8 χρηματίζω
- Jeremiah 5:8 χρηματίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5537) 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.
- 1 Kings 18:27 χρηματίζω It happened at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened.
- Job 40:8 χρηματίζω Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
- Jeremiah 5:8 χρηματίζω They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
- Jeremiah 32:17 χρηματίζω Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,
- Jeremiah 33:2 χρηματίζω Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his name:
- Jeremiah 36:18 χρηματίζω Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
- Jeremiah 37:2 χρηματίζω But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did listen to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 43:2 χρηματίζω then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there;
- Jeremiah 43:4 χρηματίζω So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Judah.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5537) 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.
