χρηστός
fit
also: fit for use, useful fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
6 distinct verses where G5543 appears in the Nominative case, across 5 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 5:39 χρηστός adj nom sg masc No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"
- Luke 6:35 χρηστός adj nom sg masc But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Romans 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
1 Peter 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.
The Greek adjective χρηστος centers on the idea of “fit.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 11:30. It turns up in 7 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Luke (29%), then Matthew and Romans. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses; alongside “fit” it spans “fit for use” and “useful”. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5543 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 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 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 43%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 43%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 29%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 14%
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: Better 1×, Good 1×, Goodness 1×
- American Standard Version: Good 2×, Kind 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Good 2×, Kind 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kind 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5543 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5543 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G5543 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G5543 across 7 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.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 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.
- fit, fit for use, useful
- manageable
Word origin
Derived from χραομαι (chráomai) (G5530) — to borrow.
From G5530 ; employed that is (by implication) useful (in manner or morals): - better easy good (-ness) gracious kind.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G5543 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χρηστός chrēstós | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 5:39 | 2 |
| χρηστὸς chrēstòs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 11:30 | 2 |
| χρηστοί chrēstoí | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Ephesians 4:32 | 1 |
| χρηστὰ chrēstà | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 15:33 | 1 |
| χρηστὸν chrēstòn | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Romans 2:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5543, 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
- χραω chráō G5531 to lend
- χρεια chreía G5532 necessity
- χρη chrḗ G5534 it is necessary
- χρησις chrēsis G5540 use
- χριω chríō G5548 to anoint
- χρυσος chrysós G5557 gold
- χρως chrṓs G5559 skin
Derived from this word
- χρηστευομαι chrēsteúomai G5541 to be kind
- χρηστολογια chrēstología G5542 flattery
- χρηστοτης chrēstótēs G5544 goodness
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 12 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χρηστος appears 28 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 7 books.
- 28
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 31:31 χρηστός
- Psalms 24:8 χρηστός
- Proverbs 2:21 χρηστός
- Jeremiah 24:2 χρηστός
- Ezekiel 27:22 χρηστός
- Daniel 2:32 χρηστός
- Nahum 1:7 χρηστός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5543) 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.
- Job 31:31 χρηστός If the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
- Psalms 24:8 χρηστός Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.
- Psalms 33:9 χρηστός For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
- Psalms 51:11 χρηστός Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.
- Psalms 68:17 χρηστός The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.
- Psalms 85:5 χρηστός Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
- Psalms 99:5 χρηστός Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
- Psalms 105:1 χρηστός Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
- Psalms 106:1 χρηστός Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, For his loving kindness endures forever.
- Psalms 108:21 χρηστός
- Psalms 111:5 χρηστός He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.
- Psalms 118:39 χρηστός
- Psalms 118:68 χρηστός
- Psalms 135:1 χρηστός Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
- Psalms 144:9 χρηστός I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
- Proverbs 2:21 χρηστός For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
- Jeremiah 24:2 χρηστός One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
- Jeremiah 24:3 χρηστός Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.
- Jeremiah 24:5 χρηστός Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
- Jeremiah 40:11 χρηστός Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;
- Jeremiah 51:17 χρηστός Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 52:32 χρηστός and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
- Ezekiel 27:22 χρηστός The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
- Ezekiel 28:13 χρηστός You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
- Daniel 2:32 χρηστός As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,
- Daniel 3:89 χρηστός
- Nahum 1:7 χρηστός Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5543) 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.
