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.
- ἐσθίειν μέλι πολὺ οὐ καλόν, τιμᾶ δὲ χρὴ λόγουσ ἐνδόξουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 25:29)
- ἀλλ̓ οὐκ ἀφ̓ ἑνόσ, οἶμαι, χρὴ ἀνατρέπειν τὰ πάντα οὐδ̓ ἰσοτιμίαν τῶν μισθοφορούντων καθιστάναι. (Lucian, Apologia 27:3)
- πρὸ δὲ τῶν ὅλων μεμνῆσθαι χρὴ τοὺσ ἐπιτιμῶντασ, ὅτι οὐ σοφῷ ὄντι μοι ‐ εἰ δή τισ καὶ ἄλλοσ ἐστί που σοφόσ ‐ ἐπιτιμήσουσιν, ἀλλὰ τῷ ἐκ τοῦ πολλοῦ δήμου, λόγουσ μὲν ἀσκήσαντι καὶ τὰ μέτρια ἐπαινουμένῳ ἐπ̓ αὐτοῖσ, πρὸσ δὲ τὴν ἄκραν ἐκείνην τῶν κορυφαίων ἀρετὴν οὐ πάνυ γεγυμνασμένῳ· (Lucian, Apologia 34:1)
- χρὴ δὲ καὶ ταύταισ ἀρέσκειν τὸν ἄνθρωπον. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 2:2)
- τὸ μὲν ἀληθὲσ οὐκ ἔχω εἰπεῖν, εἰκάζειν δὲ χρὴ νέον ὄντα καὶ τούτων ὀρέγεσθαι τυχεῖν καὶ βούλεσθαι ἂν πρῶτον αὐτὸν εἶναι κατὰ τὰσ μάχασ. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 4:10)
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)
