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To use

χράωStrong’s G5530

chraō

Appears in 11 verses of the New Testament

In short

Chraō is the Greek word usually translated “was treating”, “were using” and “do take advantage”. It appears in 11 verses of the New Testament.

“But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;”
1 Timothy 1:8 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “was treating”, “were using” and “do take advantage”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • was treating 1
  • they were using 1
  • do take advantage 1
  • using 1
  • we did use 1
  • have used 1
  • did i use 1
  • we use 1

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

Where it's used most
  • 1 Corinthians 4
  • 2 Corinthians 3
  • Acts 2
  • 1 Timothy 2

4 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 11 verses, by book
Acts 2
27:327:17
1 Corinthians 4
7:217:319:129:15
2 Corinthians 3
1:173:1213:10
1 Timothy 2
1:85:23
Greek dictionary

χράω chraō · to use

χράομαι, χρῶμαι (χρή), [in LXX for עָשָׂה, etc. ;] to use, make use of: with dative (cf. M, Pr., 64, 158), Act.27:17, 1Co.9:12 9:15, 1Ti.1:8 5:23; μᾶλλον χρῆσαι (i.e. the opportunity; see M, Pr., 247), 1Co.7:21; as some­times in late writers (cf. M, Pr., 64; Lft., Notes, 233), with accusative, 1Co.7:31; of feelings, etc., to exercise, shew: 2Co.1:17 3:12; with adv., ἀποτόμως, to deal sharply, 2Co.13:10; with dative of person(s) (cl.), to treat, deal with, Act.27:3.† (AS)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

USE, noun

[Latin urus.]

  1. The act of handling or employing in any manner, and for any purpose, but especially for a profitable purpose; as the use of a pen in writing; the use of books in study; the use of a spade in digging. use is of two kinds; that which employs a thing, without destroying it or its form, as the use of a book or of a farm; or it is the employment of a thing which destroys or wastes it, as the use of bread for provision; the use of water for turning a mill.
  2. Employment; application of any thing to a purpose, good or bad.
  3. Usefulness; utility; advantage; production of benefit. the value of a thing is to be estimated by its use His friendship has been of use to me.
  4. Need of employment, or occasion to employ.
All definitions and other forms of “use”
  1. Power of receiving advantage. [Usual.]
  2. Continued practice or employment.
  3. Custom; common occurrence.
  4. Interest; the premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money.
  5. In law, the benefit or profit of lands and tenements. use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands.
  6. In use in employment; as, the book is now in use
  7. In customary practice or observance.

USE, verb transitive

s as z. [Latin uter, usus; Gr.]

  1. To employ; to handle, hold, occupy or move for some purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use a book; to use time.
  2. To waste, consume or exhaust by employment; as, to use flour for food; to use beer for drink; to use water for irrigation, or for turning the wheel of a mill.
  3. To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; as men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
  4. To treat; as, to use one well or ill; to use people with kindness and civility; to use a beast with cruelty.
  5. To practice customarily.“USE hospitality one to another” 1 Peter 4:9

USE, verb intransitive

s as z.

  1. To be accustomed; to practice customarily.
  2. To be wont.
  3. To frequent; to inhabit.

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.