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κλέοςStrong’s G2811

kleos

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Kleos is the Greek word usually translated “credit”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.”
1 Peter 2:20 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “credit”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • credit 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Peter 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    κλέος kleos · credit

    κλέος, -ους, τό [in LXX: Job.28:22 (שֵׁמַע) Job.30:8 * ;] 1. a rumour, report. 2. good report, fame, glory: 1Pe.2:20.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “credit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    CREDIT, noun

    [Latin, See Creed.]

    1. Belief; faith; a reliance or resting of the mind on the truth of something said or done.
    2. Reputation derived from the confidence of others.
    3. Honor; reputation; estimation; applied to men or things.
    4. That which procures or is entitled to belief; testimony; authority derived from ones character, or from the confidence of others.
    All definitions and other forms of “credit”
    1. Influence derived from the reputation of veracity or integrity, or from the good opinion or confidence of others; interest; power derived from weight of character, from friendship, fidelity or other cause.
    2. In commerce, trust; transfer of goods in confidence of future payment.
    3. The capacity of being trusted; or the reputation of solvency and probity which entitles a man to be trusted.
    4. In book-keeping, the side of an account in which payment is entered; opposed to debit.
    5. Public credit the confidence which men entertain in the ability and disposition of a nation, to make good its engagements with its creditors; or the estimation in which individuals hold the public promises of payment, whether such promises are expressed or implied.
    6. The notes or bills which are issued by the public or by corporations or individuals, which circulate on the confidence of men in the ability and disposition in those who issue them, to redeem them.
    7. The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as a long credit or a short credit
    8. A sum of money due to any person; any thing valuable standing on the creditor side of an account.

    CREDIT, verb transitive

    [from the Noun.]

    1. To believe; to confide in the truth of; as, to credit a report, or the man who tells it.
    2. To trust; to sell or loan in confidence of future payment; as, to credit goods or money.
    3. To procure credit or honor; to do credit; to give reputation or honor.
    4. To enter upon the credit side of an account; as, to credit the amount paid.
    5. To set to the credit of; as, to credit to a man the interest paid on a bond.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.