Lexicon charitoó: to make graceful, endow with grace Original Word: χαριτόωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: charitoó Phonetic Spelling: (khar-ee-to'-o) Short Definition: I favor, bestow freely on Definition: I favor, bestow freely on. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 5487 xaritóō (from 5486 /xárisma, "grace," see there) – properly, highly-favored because receptive to God's grace. 5487 (xaritóō) is used twice in the NT (Lk 1:28 and Eph 1:6), both times of God extending Himself to freely bestow grace (favor). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom charisDefinitionto make graceful, endow with grace NASB Translationfavored (1), freely bestowed (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5487: χαριτόωχαριτόω, χαρίτω: 1 aorist ἐχαριτωσα; perfect passive participle κεχαριτωμένος; ( χάρις); 1. to make graceful i. e. charming, lovely, agreeable: passive, Sir. 18:17; ταῖς διαλοξοις στροφαῖς χαριτουμενος ὀφρυν, Libanius, vol. iv., p. 1071, 14. 2. to pursue with grace, compass with favor; to honor with blessings: τινα, Ephesians 1:6; passive, Luke 1:28 (some would take it in these two examples subjectively (R. V. marginal reading endued frith grace)); Psalm 18:26 Symm.; (Hermas, sim. 9, 24, 3 [ET]; Test xii. Patr. test. Joseph. 1); ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.
Strong's favor highly From charis; to grace, i.e. Indue with special honor -- make accepted, be highly favoured. see GREEK charis |
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