G5540: χρῆσις
chrēsis · “use”
Definition
employment, i.e. (specially), sexual intercourse (as an occupation of the body)
KJV translates it as: use
Word origin: from G5530 (χράομαι);
Extended definition
χρῆσις, -εως, ἡ
(χράομαι), [in LXX: 1Ki.1:28 (שָׁאַל), Sir.18:8, al. ;]
use: in a sexual sense, Rom.1:26; with genitive obj., θηλείας, Rom.1:27 (for exx., see Thayer, see word).†
(AS)
(χράομαι), [in LXX: 1Ki.1:28 (שָׁאַל), Sir.18:8, al. ;]
use: in a sexual sense, Rom.1:26; with genitive obj., θηλείας, Rom.1:27 (for exx., see Thayer, see word).†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G5540 is translated
- use ×2
Bible verses with G5540 (chrēsis)
Chrēsis appears in 2 verses.
- Romans 1:26
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
- Romans 1:27
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.