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To favor

χαριτόωStrong’s G5487

charitoō

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Charitoō is the Greek word usually translated “graciously favored” and “has freely given”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.”
Luke 1:28 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “graciously favored” and “has freely given”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • you graciously favored 1
  • he has freely given 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1
  • Ephesians 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

χαριτόω charitoō · to favor

χαριτόω, -ῶ (χάρις), [in LXX: Sir.18:17 (ἀνδρί κεχαριτωμένῳ; Vg., justificato; Syr., saintly) * ;] to endow with χάρις (which see), i.e. 1. (a) to make graceful; (b) to make gracious (Sir, l.with). 2. In Hellenistic writings (for exx., see AR, Eph., 227; Lft., Notes, 315), (a) to cause to find favour; (b) to endue with grace (i.e. divine favour): Luk.1:28, Eph.1:6.† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

FA'VOR, noun

[Latin favor faveo.]

  1. Kind regard; kindness; countenance; propitious aspect; friendly disposition.“Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain” Proverbs 31:30
  2. Support; defense; vindication; or disposition to aid, befriend, support, promote or justify.
  3. A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; any act of grace or good will, as distinguished from acts of justice or renumeration.
  4. Lenity; mildness or mitigation of punishment.
All definitions and other forms of “favor”
  1. Leave; good will; a yielding or concession to another; pardon.
  2. The object of kind regard; the person or thing favored.
  3. A gift or present; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection.
  4. A feature; countenance. [Not used.]
  5. Advantage; convenience afforded for success.
  6. Partiality; bias.

FA'VOR, verb transitive

  1. To regard with kindness; to support; to aid or have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to befriend; to encourage.“Thou shalt arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come” Psalms 102:13
  2. To afford advantages for success; to facilitate.
  3. To resemble in features.
  4. To ease; to spare.

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.