χρηστότης
goodness
‘goodness’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5544 appears in the Book of Ephesians — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Ephesians
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.
χρηστοτης (chrēstótēs) is a Greek noun most often rendered “goodness.” Scripture first uses it in Romans 2:4. It turns up in 8 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Romans, which alone accounts for 38% of its uses. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5544 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 3 verses 38%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 13%
- Galatians 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 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: Goodness 4×, Kindness 4×
- American Standard Version: Kindness 5×, Goodness 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kindness 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kindness 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5544 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G5544 across 11 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 G5544 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 G5544 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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.
- moral goodness, integrity
- benignity, kindness
Word origin
Derived from χρηστος (chrēstós) (G5543) — fit.
From G5543 ; usefulness that is moral excellence (in character or demeanor): - gentleness good (-ness) kindness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G5544 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χρηστότης chrēstótēs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 11:22 | 3 |
| χρηστότητα chrēstótēta | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 3:12 | 3 |
| χρηστότητι chrēstótēti | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 11:22 | 3 |
| χρηστότητος chrēstótētos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Romans 2:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5544, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χρηστοτης appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 1 book.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 13:1 χρηστότης
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5544) 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.
- Psalms 13:1 χρηστότης How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 13:3 χρηστότης Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
- Psalms 20:4 χρηστότης May He grant you your heart's desire, And fulfill all your counsel.
- Psalms 24:7 χρηστότης Lift up your heads, you gates; Be lifted up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in.
- Psalms 30:20 χρηστότης
- Psalms 36:3 χρηστότης The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
- Psalms 64:12 χρηστότης
- Psalms 67:11 χρηστότης
- Psalms 84:13 χρηστότης
- Psalms 103:28 χρηστότης
- Psalms 105:5 χρηστότης Remember his marvelous works that he has done; His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
- Psalms 118:65 χρηστότης
- Psalms 118:66 χρηστότης
- Psalms 118:68 χρηστότης
- Psalms 144:7 χρηστότης Stretch out your hand from above, Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hands of foreigners;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5544) 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.
