χράομαι chraomai 11x

to use, make use of, employ, Acts 27:17; 1 Cor. 7:31; to take advantage of, 1 Cor. 7:21; 9:12, 15; to use, to treat, behave towards, Acts 27:3; 2 Cor. 13:10

χράομαι, χρῶμαι

(< χρή), [in LXX for עשׂה, etc. ;]

to use, make use of: c. dat. (cf. M, Pr., 64, 158), Ac 27:17, I Co 9:12, 15, I Ti 1:8 5:23; μᾶλλον χρῆσαι (i.e. the opportunity; v. M, Pr., 247), I Co 7:21; as some­times in late writers (cf. M, Pr., 64; Lft., Notes, 233), c. acc., I Co 7:31; of feelings, etc., to exercise, shew: II Co 1:17 3:12; c. adv., ἀποτόμως, to deal sharply, II Co 13:10; c. dat. pers. (cl.), to treat, deal with, Ac 27:3.†

χράομαι, from χρή, ‘‘necessity,’’ = “make for myself what is necessary with something,” hence c. dat. as in Ac 271? al.: cf. P Magd 117 (B.C. 221) πρὸς τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι τοῖς ἱστίοις ἔτι χρᾶσθαι (for form, Mayser Gr. p. 247), P Tebt I. 4571 (B.c. 113) οὐδενὶ κόσμωι χρησάμενοι συντρίWavtes τὴν παρόδιον θύραν, “throwing off all restraint knocked down the street door’’ (Edd.), P Ryl II. 1481? (A.D. 40) ληστρικῶι τρόπωι χρησάμενοι, P Oxy VIII. 1153" (i/A.D.) ἐντοπίᾳ δὲ πορφύρᾳ χρήσασθ(αι) μέλλομεν, “we are going to use local purple’’ (Ed.), 126. X. 126635 (A.D. 98) μηδ᾽ ἀλλοτρίαις [ἀσφαλΊ]είαις ἢ ὁμωνυμίᾳ κεχρῆϊ[σθαι, ‘‘that I have not availed myself of credentials belonging to others or identity of names” (Edd.), 76. 12631" (Α.Ὁ. 128-9) χρήσασθαι τῇ τῶν épy[atay] ποταμοῦ τέχ[νῃ, ‘to practise the trade of a river-worker,” P Giss I. 496 (iii/A.D.) χράσθωσαν t[ois] προκειμένοις τόποιϊς ἀκωλ]ύτως, and PSI VIII. 8725 (vi/a.p.). For the verb c. dat. pers. as in Ac 27%, cf. P Petr III. 42 H(8)f.8 (iii/p.c.) mukp[@]s σοι ἐχρήσατο, P Oxy IV. 7458 (c. A.D. 1) οὐκ οἶδας yap πῶς μοι ἐχρήσατο ἐν ᾿Οξυρύγχοις, ‘‘you don’t know how he treated me at Oxyrhynchus (?)” (Edd.), and P Flor 11. 187% (iii/a.p.) ἀσπουδάστως ἐχρήσω μοι. C. H. Dodd (77:5 xxvi. (1924), p- 77f.) draws attention to a useful parallel to the absolute use of χρῆσαι in 1 Cor 751: from P Oxy XVI. 1865! (vi/vii A.D.) καὶ πολλάκις ἐξῆν γράψαι σοι περὶ τοῦ] κεφαλαίου τούτου, καὶ προσδοκον (1 προσδοκῶν) καθ᾽ ἑκάστην καταλαμβάίνειν ἐκεῖσε:) τούτου ἕνεκεν οὐκ ἐχρησάμην ἄλλην γράψαι ἄλλοις γράμμαϊ[σι]ν.. . .. RE καὶ πρὸς τὸ γνῶναι τὸν ἐμὸν δεσπότην ἐχρησάμην παρακαλῶν διὰ τούτον (1. τούτων) μου τῶν γραμμάτων, “1 had many opportunities of writing to you concerning this matter, and, expecting each day to come thither, for that reason did not avail myself of them to write another letter overagain. That my master may know this I took the opportunity of exhorting you by this my writing” (Edd.). ‘* The late date,” as Dodd points out, ‘‘ detracts somewhat from the value of the comparison, but for what it is worth it favours the rendering of the Pauline passage—‘ If you actually have before you the ? = "treat:

χράω (chraō) — to use. χράω.

__B[Refs 4th c.BC+] FORMS: contraction χρῇ [Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect χρᾷ [Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive χρᾶν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect participle χρέων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect χρείων [Refs 8th c.BC+]: imperfect ἔχραον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular ἔχρη [Refs 7th c.BC+]: future χρήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἔχρησα [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist ἐχρήσθην [Refs], etc.: perfect κέχρησμαι (variant{κέχρημαι}) [Refs]: pluperfect ἐκέχρηστο (variant{ἐκέχρητο}) [Refs]:—middle, χρῶμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect χρέομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+], infinitive χρέεσθαι [Refs]; participle χρεώμενος [Refs]imperfect 3rd.pers. plural ἐχρέωντο (variant{ἐχρέοντο}) [Refs]: future χρήσομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+] __B.I in active of the gods and their oracles, proclaim, absolutely, χρείων μυθήσατο Φοῖβος [Refs 6th c.BC+]; χρῆσεν οἰκιστῆρα Βάττον proclaimed him the colonizer, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in Trag., ὁ χρήσας [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, warn or direct by oracle, ἔχρησας ὥστε τὸν ξένον μητροκτονεῖν [Refs 4th c.BC+]; χρήσαντ᾽ ἐμοὶ.. ἐκτὸς αἰτίας κακῆς εἶναι that I should be.., [Refs]; with infinitive aorist, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: rare in Attic dialect Prose, τάδε ὁ Ἀπόλλων ἔχρησεν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ θεὸς ἔχρησε [Refs 4th c.BC+] __B.II passive, to be declared, proclaimed by an oracle, τίς οὖν ἐχρήσθ; [Refs 5th c.BC+]; mostly of the oracle delivered, τὰ ἐκ Δελφῶν οὕτω τῷ Κροίσῳ ἐχρήσθη [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ χρησθέν, τὰ χρησθέντα, the response, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χρησθὲν αὐτῷ ἐν Νεμέᾳ τοῦτο παθεῖν since it was foretold him by an oracle that.. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἃ τοῦδ᾽ ἐχρήσθη σώματος which were declared about it, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ κακοῦ τοῦ κεχρησμένου [Refs]infinitive, καί σφι ἐχρήσθη ἀνέμοισι εὔχεσθαι[Refs]: with accusative et infinitive, ἐκέχρηστό σφι.. τοῦτον βασιλεύσειν [Refs]; with infinitive aorist, [Refs] __B.III middle, of the person to whom the response is given, consult a god or oracle, with dative, ψυχῇ χρησόμενος Θηβαίου Τειρεσίαο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; χ. θεῷ, χρηστηρίοισι, μαντηΐῳ, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. χρηστηρίῳ εἰ.. inquire at the oracle whether.., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ χρώμενοι the consulters, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κεχρημένος having inquired of an oracle, [Refs 4th c.BC+]infinitive, σωφρονεῖν κεχρημένον being divinely warned to be temperate, [Refs 4th c.BC+]: later simply, receive a divine revelation, [Refs 8th c.BC+] has the word in this sense only in [Refs 8th c.BC+]active only in present participle χρείων (future χρήσω [Refs]middle only in participle future χρησόμενος. __B furnish with a thing, in which sense the present was κίχρημι, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; Cretan dialect 3rd.pers. singular κίγχρητι [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; Delph. 3rd.pers. singular present subjunctive κιχρῇ [Refs 4th c.BC+]aorist χρέη[Refs]; present participle κιχρέντε [Refs]χρηννύναι, χρηννύω, [Refs 4th c.BC+]: middle, χρηννυόμεθα [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: future χρήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἔχρησα[Refs 5th c.BC+] (3rd.pers. singular written ἔκχρησεν [Refs]; imperative χρῆσον [Refs 5th c.BC+] Comedy texts 205: perfect κέχρηκα [Refs 4th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐκεχρήκει [Refs 2nd c.AD+] —passive, perfect κέχρημαι (δια-) [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, present κίχρᾰμαι [Refs 1st c.AD+]; infinitive κίχρασθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+]: imperfect ἐκιχράμην[Refs]: aorist ἐχρησάμην, imperative χρῆσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.:—furnish the use of a thing, i.e. lend, usually in a friendly way, δανείζω being the word applied to usurers (but χ. ={δανείζω} in [LXX+5th c.BC+]; χ. τὰν χέρα, in the formula of manumission, [Refs]:—middle, borrow, τι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόδας χρήσας, ὄμματα χρησάμενος having lent feet and borrowed eyes, of a blind man carrying a lame one, [Refs 5th c.BC+] __B.II ={χρηματίζω}[Refs]