Quick Definition
χαριτόω v. I favor, bestow freely on
Strong's Definition
from 5485; to grace, i.e. indue with special honor
KJV Usage: make accepted, be highly favoured
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | χαίρω
88.66 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Kindness, Harshness
to show kindness, to manifest graciousness toward, kindness, graciousness, grace to show kindness to someone, with the implication of graciousness on the part of the one showing such kindness It is important to note that kindness in English indicates an activity in which an individual is kind to someone; it is essentially an event involving a particular quality. The same is true of χάρις in ACT 15:40, for this is not a mere gracious disposition, but an expectation of the Lord’s showing kindness.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Χαριτόω, τῶ: 1 aor. ἐχαρίτωσα ; pf. pass. ptep. κεχαριτωμένος ; (χάρις); 1. to make graceful i. 6. charming, lovely, agreeable: pass. Sir. xviii. 17; ταῖς διαλόξοις στροφαῖς xaptrovpevos ὀφρύν, Liban. vol. iv. p. 1071, 14. 2. to pursue with grace, compass with favor; to honor with blessings: twd, Eph. i. 6; pass. Lk. i. 28, [some would take it in these two exx. subjectively (R. V.mrg. endued with grace)]; Ps. xviii. 26 Symm.; [Herm. sim. 9, 24,3; Test. xii. Patr. test. Joseph. 1]; eccles. and Byzant. writ.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
χαριτόω charitoō 2x
to favor, visit with favor, to make an object of favor, to gift, Eph. 1:6; pass. to be visited with free favor, be an object of gracious visitation, Lk. 1:28*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† χαριτόω, -ῶ
(< χάρις), [in LXX: Si 18:17 (ἀνδρί κεχαριτωμένῳ; Vg., justificato; Syr., saintly) * ;]
to endow with χάρις (q.v.), i.e.
(a) to make graceful;
to make gracious (Si, l.c.).
In Hellenistic writings (for exx., v. AR, Eph., 227; Lft., Notes, 315),
to cause to find favour;
to endue with grace (i.e. divine favour): Lk 1:28, Eph 1:6.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
χαριτόω. The only ex. of this word we can produce from our sources is the iv/A.D. charm BGU IV. 1026**ii. 4, where, after various invocations such as δός] μοι χάριν, ποίησόν] pe καλόν, the whole is concluded with χαριτώσοίμαι, “1 will bestow favour upon thee’”’ For the NT usage (Lk 138, Eph 1°), see Lightfoot Motes p. 315, and Robinson 221. p- 226 ff. Some various renderings of Eph 1° are brought together in χα 7 xxix. p. 561. Cf. MGr χαριτωμένος, ““charming.” χάρτης, ‘*paper,”’ made from the pith of the papyrus-plant by a process described by Pliny V.H. xiii. 11-13 (cf. V. Gardthausen Grtechische Palacographie* (Leipzig, 1911), p. 45 ff., E. Maunde Thompson Az Jntroduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography (Oxford, 1912), p. 21 ff., and the other literature cited in Se/ectzons, p. xxi. ff.). The word χάρτης occurs only once in the NT (2 Jn?%), but is naturally common in our sources, e.g. P Lille I. 345 (after B.c. 241-0), where payment is made ὅπως [ἔχωμεν χορηγεῖν els te τὴν] γραμματεί[αν] kal xdptas, P Cairo Zen III. 593174 (B.C. 250) ἀνηλώσω δὲ εἰς ταῦτα χάρτας ὃ, ‘*T shall require 4 papyrus rolls for these things ’’ (sc. the keeping of certain accounts), P Oxy II. 390 (i/A.p.) payment of I drachma 3 obols χάρτου, P Tebt II. 34719 (ii/A.p.) ἀποθήκη τιμὴν χαρτῶν (δραχμαὶ) δ: the editors compare 26. 542, ‘“‘where 9 dr. for τιμῆ(9) χάρτου are deducted from the receipts on account of a tax,’’ 7b. 4207 (iii/A.D.) ἠγόρασα B xdpras, “1 bought two sheets of papyrus,” P Flor III. 3677 (iii/A.p.) πολλάκις pov... χάρτας ἐπιστολικο[ὺς ἀπο]στείλαντος, ἵν᾽ εὐπορῇς (cf. Ac 117°) τοῦ γρά[φειν] μοι, P Oxy VI. 89512 (A.D. 305) τιμῆς χάρτου καὶ γράπίτρων . . ., “for the price of papyrus and writing-materials,’’ and sol. For χάρτης ἱερατικός, ‘sacred paper,’’ cf. P Lond 469° (iv/a.p.) (=I. p. 74). It may be of interest to add some related words—xdpt, as in BGU III. 822 verso (iii/A.D.) πέμψον μοι ἄγραφον χάρτην, ἵνα εὕρο[με]ν ἐπιστολ[ὴν] γράψαι : χαρτίον, as in P Cairo Zen III. 594707 (mid. iii/B.c.) περὶ δὲ τῶν χαρτίων ἔγραψα μέν σοι, P Gen I. 52° χαρτίον (so read by Wilcken Archiv iii. p- 399) καθαρὸν μὴ εὑρὼν πρὸς τὴν ὥραν εἰς τοῦ[τ]ον ἔγραψα, ‘not having found a clean sheet of paper, for the moment I have written on this’’: χαρτάριον, as in P Tebt 11. 413° (ii/iii a.p.) τὸ χαρτάριν (Δ χαρτάριον) ἔλαβεν Σερηνίων éo{c}ppayiocpevoy, “‘Serenion took the papyrus sealed ’’: χαρτοπώλης, as read in P Tebt I. 112°? (B.C. 112) (as amended Berichtigungen, p. 425): and émχάρτη, ‘an extra sheet,” as in P Oxy I. 34 verso’ (A.D. 127). For the light thrown by contemporary papyrus documents on the outward form and method of the NT Epistles, reference may be permitted to the Excursus on ‘‘St. Paul as a Letterwriter”? in Milligan Zhess. p. 121 ff., and Here and There, Pp: 27 ff.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
χαριτόω (charitoō) — to favor. χαρῐτ-όω, show grace to any one, τῆς χάριτος ἧς ἐχαρίτωσεν ἡμᾶς [NT]middle χαριτώσομαι I will bestow favour upon thee, [Refs 4th c.AD+]:—passive, to have grace shown one, to be highly favoured, [LXX+NT]; πρὸς πάντας ἀνθρώπους[Refs 4th c.AD+]; ὄμμα στροφαῖς -ούμενον probably in [Refs 4th c.AD+]