Original Word: χαριτόω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: charitoó
Pronunciation: khar-ee-TOH-o
Phonetic Spelling: (khar-ee-to'-o)
KJV: make accepted, be highly favoured
NASB: favored, freely bestowed
Word Origin: [from G5485 (χάρις - grace)]

1. to grace, i.e. indue with special honor

favor highly

From charis; to grace, i.e. Indue with special honor -- make accepted, be highly favoured.

see GREEK charis

Cognate: 5487 xaritóō (from 5486 /xárisma, "grace," see there) – properly, highly-favored because receptive to God's grace. 5487 (xaritóō) is used twice in the NT (Lk 1:28 and Eph 1:6), both times of God extending Himself to freely bestow grace (favor).

Word Origin
from charis
Definition
to make graceful, endow with grace
NASB Translation
favored (1), freely bestowed (1).

STRONGS NT 5487: χαριτόω

χαριτόω, χαρίτω: 1 aorist ἐχαριτωσα; perfect passive participle κεχαριτωμένος; (χάρις);

1. to make graceful i. e. charming, lovely, agreeable: passive, Sir. 18:17; ταῖς διαλοξοις στροφαῖς χαριτουμενος ὀφρυν, Libanius, vol. iv., p. 1071, 14.

2. to pursue with grace, compass with favor; to honor with blessings: τινα, Ephesians 1:6; passive, Luke 1:28 (some would take it in these two examples subjectively (R. V. marginal reading endued frith grace)); Psalm 18:26 Symm.; (Hermas, sim. 9, 24, 3 [ET]; Test xii. Patr. test. Joseph. 1); ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.

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