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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - χράομαι
χράομαι
G5530
Transliteration: chráomai
Pronunciation: khrah'-om-ahee
Definition: entreat
- Original: χράομαι - Transliteration: Chraomai - Phonetic: khrah'-om-ahee
- Definition:
1. to receive a loan
2. borrow
3. to take for one's use, to use
a. to make use of a thing
- Origin: middle voice of a primary verb (perhaps rather from G5495" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5495, to handle) - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: Middle voice of a primary verb (perhaps rather from G5495" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5495 to handle); to furnish what is needed; (give an oracle graze [touch slightly] light upon etc.) that is (by implication) to employ or (by extension) to act towards one in a given manner: - entreat use. Compare G5531" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5531 G5534" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5534.