2001 Translation

CHRĒSIMON, chrēsimon

Sounds Like: KHREE-see-mon

Translations: useful, profitable, advantageous, serviceable, a useful thing, what is useful

From the root: ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning useful, profitable, or advantageous. It describes something that is beneficial or serves a good purpose. It can be used to describe objects, actions, or qualities that are helpful or valuable.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G5540 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:135, 1:175

Clement of Alexandria

• To the Newly Baptized — 1:2

Codex Sinaiticus

• Tobit — 6:4
• Wisdom — 13:11
• Sirach — 10:4
• 2 Timothy — 2:14

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 4:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 17:170
• Book Two — 17:170

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 0:9
• Book 2 — 6:96
• Book 3 — 1:10, 5:75
• Book 10 — 6:90, 7:123
• Book 12 — 2:110
• Book 13 — 16:429
• Book 14 — 8:127, 13:330
• Book 16 — 11:379
• Book 17 — 10:296

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 8:11
• Book Three — 5:1, 5:21
• Book Five — 1:36
• Book Six — 9:7

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 37:26
• Tobit — 6:5
• Wisdom — 13:11
• Sirach — 10:4
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:58
• Ezekiel — 15:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• 2 Timothy — 2:14

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΑ — useful, profitable, serviceable, advantageous, good, useful things
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΗΝ — useful, profitable, serviceable, advantageous
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΗΣ — (of) useful, (of) profitable, (of) serviceable
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΙ — useful, profitable, serviceable, beneficial, good, helpful, useful ones, profitable ones
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΙΣ — (to) useful, (to) profitable, (to) serviceable, (to) advantageous, (to) beneficial
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΣ — useful, profitable, serviceable, a useful thing
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΥ — of useful, of profitable, of serviceable, of advantageous, of good
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΥΣ — useful, profitable, serviceable, advantageous
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΩ — (to) useful, (to) profitable, (to) serviceable, (to) good
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΩΝ — useful, profitable, advantageous, good, a useful thing, of useful things
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΩΣ — usefully, profitably, advantageously, expediently
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΩΤΕΡΑ — more useful, more profitable, more serviceable, more advantageous
• ΧΡΗΣΙΜΩΤΕΡΟΝ — more useful, more profitable, more serviceable, a more useful thing

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