χράω
α-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
χράω
Structure:
χρά
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to furnish what is needful
- to furnish the needful answer, to declare, pronounce, proclaim, to warn or direct by oracle, that
- to consult a god or oracle, to inquire of, consult, using an oracle, to use, to consult the oracle, the consulters, one who has received an oracular response
- to furnish with, to furnish the use of, to lend, to have furnished one, borrow, lent, borrowed
Conjugation
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- οἱ δ̓ ἔνδον πεποιθότεσ τῇ τῶν τειχέων ἐρυμνότητι τῇ τε τῶν βρωμάτων παραθέσει, ἀναγωγότερον ἐχρῶντο τοῖσ περὶ τὸν Ἰούδαν λοιδοροῦντεσ καὶ προσέτι βλασφημοῦντεσ καὶ λαλοῦντεσ ἃ μὴ θέμισ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:14)
- λεγόντων μετὰ ἀποδείξεωσ καὶ τὴν χαρτηρίαν ἤδη καὶ τοὺσ γραφικοὺσ καλάμουσ, ἐν οἷσ ἐχρῶντο, ἐκλελοιπέναι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:20)
- ὥστε εἰ μὴ δυναστείᾳ μᾶλλον ἢ ἰσονομίᾳ ἐχρῶντο τῷ ἐπιχωρίῳ οἱ Θεσσαλοί· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 104)
- ὥστε εἰ μὴ δυναστείᾳ μᾶλλον ἢ ἰσονομίᾳ ἐχρῶντο τῇ ἐπιχωρίῳ οἱ Θεσσαλοί. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 107)
- "ἐν βραχεῖ παῖδασ αὐτοὺσ ἀπέφηνε, προφήτησ καὶ ^ θιασάρχησ καὶ ξυναγωγεὺσ καὶ πάντα μόνοσ αὐτὸσ ὤν, καὶ τῶν βίβλων τὰσ μὲν ἐξηγεῖτο καὶ διεσάφει, πολλὰσ δὲ αὐτὸσ καὶ συνέγραφεν, καὶ ὡσ θεὸν αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνοι ᾐδοῦντο ^ καὶ νομοθέτῃ ἐχρῶντο καὶ προστάτην ἐπεγράφοντο, μετὰ ^ γοῦν ἐκεῖνον ὃν ἔτι σέβουσι, τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἐν τῇ Παλαιστίνῃ ἀνασκολοπισθέντα, ὅτι καινὴν ταύτην ^ τελετὴν εἰσῆγεν ἐσ ^ τὸν βίον. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:12)
Synonyms
-
to furnish what is needful
- σάττω (to furnish with all things needful, furnished)
-
to consult a god or oracle
- ἀναφαίνω (to proclaim, declare, to proclaim)
- ἐκχράω (to declare as an oracle, tell out)
- διακηρύσσω (to proclaim by herald, in declared war)
- θεσπίζω (to declare by oracle, prophesy, divine)
-
to furnish with
- προσδανείζω (to lend besides, to have lent one, to borrow)
- δανείζω (to have lent to one, to borrow)
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- προσδανείζω (to lend besides, to have lent one, to borrow)
- δανείζω (to have lent to one, to borrow)
Derived
- ἀποχράω (to suffice, be sufficient, be enough)
- ἐγχράω (to dash against, there were, urged)
- ἐκχράω (to declare as an oracle, tell out, to suffice)
- ἐπιχράω (to attack, assault, beset)
- ἐπιχράω (to lend besides)
- καταχράομαι (to make full use of, apply, to use to the uttermost)
- χράω ( to fall upon, attack, assail)
