Word Summary
charin: in favor of, for the pleasure of
Original Word: χάρινTransliteration: charin
Phonetic Spelling: (khar'-in)
Part of Speech: Adverb
Short Definition: in favor of, for the pleasure of
Meaning: in favor of, for the pleasure of
Strong's Concordance
in favor of
Accusative case of charis as preposition; through favor of, i.e. On account of -- be-(for) cause of, for sake of, +...fore, X reproachfully.
see GREEK charis
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5484: χάρινχάριν, accusative of the substantive,
χάρις used absolutely; properly,
in favor of, for lite pleasure of:
χάριν ἑκτορος,
Homer, Iliad 15, 744, others; 1 Macc. 9:10; Judith 8:19; like the Latin abl.
gratia, it takes on completely the nature of a preposition, and is joined to the genitive,
for, on account of, for the sake of;
Galatians 3:19 (on which see
παραβοσις);
1 Timothy 5:14;
Titus 1:11;
Jude 1:16;
τούτου χάριν,
on this account, for this cause, Ephesians 3:1 (
Xenophon, mem. 1, 2, 54);
τούτου χάριν ἵνα,
Ephesians 3:14 (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 566 (526));
Titus 1:5;
οὗ χάριν,
for which cause, Luke 7:47;
χάριν τίνος;
for what cause? wherefore? 1 John 3:12. Except in
1 John 3:12,
χάριν is everywhere in the N. T. placed after the genitive, as it generally is in secular authors (cf.
Passow, under the word, I. 3 a., p. 2416{b};
Herm. ad Vig., p. 701); in the O. T. Apocrypha it is placed sometimes before, sometimes after; cf. Wahl, Clavis Apocr., under the word 6 b.; Grimm on 1 Macc. 3:29.