χρονίζω
to delay
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
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5549 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 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.
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.
At its core, χρονιζω (chronízō) means “to delay.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 5 verses. The word gravitates to Matthew (40%), then Luke and Hebrews. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 24:48. It shares a root with χρονος and χρονοτριβεω. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5549 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 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 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 80%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 40%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 20%
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: Delayeth 2×
- American Standard Version: Tarried 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Took so long 1×, Was delayed 1×, Will be a long time 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Delaying 2×, Delays 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5549 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G5549 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G5549 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5549 across 6 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.
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 linger, delay, tarry
Word origin
Derived from χρονος (chrónos) (G5550) — time.
From G5550 ; to take time that is linger : - delay tarry.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G5549 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χρονίζει chronízei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 24:48 | 2 |
| χρονίζειν chronízein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Luke 1:21 | 1 |
| χρονίζοντος chronízontos | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 25:5 | 1 |
| χρονίσει chronísei | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 10:37 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5549, 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 χρονιζω appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 11 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 32:5 χρονίζω
- Exodus 32:1 χρονίζω
- Deuteronomy 4:25 χρονίζω
- Judges 5:28 χρονίζω
- 2 Samuel 20:5 χρονίζω
- Psalms 39:18 χρονίζω
- Proverbs 31:21 χρονίζω
- Ecclesiastes 5:3 χρονίζω
- Isaiah 13:22 χρονίζω
- Daniel 9:19 χρονίζω
- Habakkuk 2:3 χρονίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5549) 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 32:5 χρονίζω I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
- Genesis 34:19 χρονίζω The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
- Exodus 32:1 χρονίζω When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."
- Deuteronomy 4:25 χρονίζω When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;
- Deuteronomy 23:22 χρονίζω But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
- Judges 5:28 χρονίζω Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Sisera [cried] through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?
- 2 Samuel 20:5 χρονίζω So Amasa went to call [the men of] Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
- Psalms 39:18 χρονίζω
- Psalms 69:6 χρονίζω Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Hosts. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
- Proverbs 31:21 χρονίζω She is not afraid of the snow for her household; For all her household are clothed with scarlet.
- Ecclesiastes 5:3 χρονίζω For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.
- Isaiah 13:22 χρονίζω Wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
- Isaiah 51:14 χρονίζω The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.
- Daniel 9:19 χρονίζω Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
- Habakkuk 2:3 χρονίζω For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5549) 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.
