Lexical Summary chrēma: a thing that one uses or needs Original Word: χρῆμαTransliteration: chrēma Phonetic Spelling: (khray'-mah) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a thing that one uses or needs Meaning: a thing that one uses or needs Strong's Concordance money, riches. Something useful or needed, i.e. Wealth, price -- money, riches. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5536: χρῆμαχρῆμα, χρηματος, τό (χράομαι), in Greek writings whatever is for use, whatever one uses, a thing, matter, affair, event, business; specifically, money (rarely so in the singular in secular authors, as Herodotus 3, 38; Diodorus 13, 106 (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word I. under the end)): Acts 4:37; plural riches (often in Greek writings from Homer, Odyssey 2, 78; 16, 315 etc. down), Mark 10:24 (T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets the clause); οἱ τά χρήματα ἔχοντες, they that have riches, Mark 10:23; Luke 18:24; money, Acts 8:18, 20; Acts 24:26 (for כֶּסֶף, silver, Job 27:17; for נִכָסִים, riches, Joshua 22:8; 2 Chronicles 1:11f). |
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