ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΣ, χρησιμος
CHRĒSIMOS, chrēsimos
Sounds Like: KHRAY-see-moss
Translations: useful, profitable, serviceable, a useful thing
From the root: ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone that is useful, profitable, or serviceable. It indicates that something is beneficial or helpful for a particular purpose or person. It can be used to describe objects, actions, or individuals.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5539 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 28:4
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
- ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΝ — useful, profitable, advantageous, serviceable, a useful thing, what is useful
- 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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