King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G5559
Transliteration: chrōs
Phonetic Spelling: (khroce)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: the surface of the body, skin
Meaning: the surface of the body, skin
χρώς, genitive χρωτός, ὁ (cf. χροιά, the skin (cf. Curtius, § 201)), from Homer down (who (generally) uses the genitive χρώς etc. (cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer, or Liddell and Scott, under the word)), the surface of the body, the skin: Acts 19:12; the Sept. for בָּשָׂר, twice for עור, Exodus 34:29f, Alex..
Word Summary
chrōs: the surface of the body, skin
Original Word: χρώςTransliteration: chrōs
Phonetic Spelling: (khroce)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: the surface of the body, skin
Meaning: the surface of the body, skin
Strong's Concordance
skinProbably akin to the base of chraomai through the idea of handling; the body (properly, its surface or skin) -- body.
see GREEK chraomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5559: χρώςχρώς, genitive χρωτός, ὁ (cf. χροιά, the skin (cf. Curtius, § 201)), from Homer down (who (generally) uses the genitive χρώς etc. (cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer, or Liddell and Scott, under the word)), the surface of the body, the skin: Acts 19:12; the Sept. for בָּשָׂר, twice for עור, Exodus 34:29f, Alex..