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χρηματισμός

oracle

G5538 Strong's Greek
chrēmatismós Transliteration
/khray-mat-is-mos'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 1 appearance

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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, χρηματισμος (chrēmatismós) means “oracle.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Its uses cluster heavily in Romans (100% of all occurrences). It occurs only once, in Romans 11:4. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
answer of God
Modern gloss
oracle
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G5538 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.
Romans 11:4
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Romans 11:4.
#3,503
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 100%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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.

  • Pauline corpus 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: Answer of god 1×
  • American Standard Version: Answer of god 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Divine reply 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Divine response 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5538 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Answer of god” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5538 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Answer of god” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5538 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Divine reply” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5538 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Divine response” 1×

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.

  1. a divine response, an oracle

Word origin

Derived from χρηματιζω (chrēmatízō) (G5537) — to manage affairs.

Part of speech: Noun Masculine TDNT: 17:02,1

From G5537 ; a divine response or revelation : - answer of God.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word χρηματισμος 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

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5538) 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 (G5538) 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.

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