Lexicon chairó: Rejoice, be glad, be joyful Original Word: χαίρω Strong's Exhaustive Concordance farewell, be glad, God speed, rejoice. A primary verb; to be "cheer"ful, i.e. Calmly happy or well-off; impersonally, especially as salutation (on meeting or parting), be well -- farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hall, joy(- fully), rejoice. HELPS Word-studies 5463 xaírō (from the root xar-, "favorably disposed, leaning towards" and cognate with 5485 /xáris, "grace") – properly, to delight in God's grace ("rejoice") – literally, to experience God's grace (favor), be conscious (glad) for His grace. 5463 /xaírō ("glad for grace") has a direct "etymological connection with xaris (grace)" (DNTT, 2, 356). S. Zodhiates (Dict, 1467) likewise comments that 5479 /xará ("joy") and 5485 /xáris ("grace") are cognate with 5463 /xaírō ("to rejoice"), i.e. all share the same root and therefore the same core (fundamental) meaning. [The etymological link between 5463 /xaírō ("rejoice"), 5479 /xará ("joy") and 5485 /xáris ("grace") – i.e. that they are all cognates – is brought out by LS (p 1,976), Zod (Dict), CBL, Wigram's Englishman's Greek Concordance (Ed. Ralph Winters), Word Study Greek-English NT (Tyndale, Ed. Paul McReynolds); see also DNTT (2,356) and TDNT (9; 359,60). TDNT likewise groups them as cognates, referring to 5479 (xará) as the noun-form (nomen actionis) and discussing them separately in terms of their distinctive connotations.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. verb Definition to rejoice, be glad NASB Translation am glad (1), glad (7), gladly (1), greeted* (1), greeting (2), greetings (4), hail (4), joyfully (1), make (1), rejoice (33), rejoiced (8), rejoices (2), rejoicing (10). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5463: χαίρωχαίρω; imperfect ἔχαιρον; future χαρήσομαι (Luke 1:14; John 16:20, 22; Philippians 1:18, for the earlier form καιρήσω, cf. (Winers Grammar, 90 (86); Buttmann, 68 (60)); Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii. 322f; Matthiae, § 255, under the word; Kühner, § 343 under the word; Krüger, § 40, under the word; (Veitch, under the word)), once χάρω (Revelation 11:10 Rec., a form occurring nowhere else); 2 aorist (passive as active) ἐχάρην (cf. συγχαίρω, at the beginning); from Homer down; the Sept. for שָׂמַח, גִּיל, שׂוּשׂ; to rejoice, be glad; a. in the properly, and strict sense: (Mark 14:11); Luke 15:5,(32); b. in a broader sense, to be well, to thrive; in salutations, the imperative χαῖρε, "Hail!" Latinsalve (so from Homer down): Matthew 26:49; Matthew 27:29; Mark 15:18; Luke 1:28; John 19:3; plural χαίρετε (A. V. all hail), Matthew 28:9; at the beginning of letters the infinitive χαίρειν (namely, λέγει or κελευει): Acts 15:23; Acts 23:26; James 1:1 (often in the books of Maccabees; cf. Grimm on 1 Macc. 10:18; Otto in the Jahrbb. f. deutsch. Theol. for 1867, p. 678ff; cf. Hilgenfeld, Galaterbrief, p. 99ff; Xenophon, Cyril 4, 5, 27; Aelian v. h. 1, 25); fully, χαίρειν λέγω, to give one greeting, salute, 2 John 1:10 (11). (Compare: συνχαίρω.) Englishman's Concordance Matthew 2:10 V-AIP-3PGRK: τὸν ἀστέρα ἐχάρησαν χαρὰν μεγάλην NAS: the star, they rejoiced exceedingly KJV: the star, they rejoiced with exceeding INT: the star they rejoiced [with] joy great Matthew 5:12 V-PMA-2P Matthew 18:13 V-PIA-3S Matthew 26:49 V-PMA-2S Matthew 27:29 V-PMA-2S Matthew 28:9 V-PMA-2P Mark 14:11 V-AIP-3P Mark 15:18 V-PMA-2S Luke 1:14 V-FIP-3P Luke 1:28 V-PMA-2S Luke 6:23 V-AMP-2P Luke 10:20 V-PMA-2P Luke 10:20 V-PMA-2P Luke 13:17 V-IIA-3S Luke 15:5 V-PPA-NMS Luke 15:32 V-ANP Luke 19:6 V-PPA-NMS Luke 19:37 V-PPA-NMP Luke 22:5 V-AIP-3P Luke 23:8 V-AIP-3S John 3:29 V-PIA-3S John 4:36 V-PSA-3S John 8:56 V-AIP-3S John 11:15 V-PIA-1S John 14:28 V-AIP-2P Strong's Greek 5463 |
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