Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χρείη ‎(khreíē) (Ionic)
• χρέα ‎(khréa)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xría/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xría/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xɾía/

Noun

χρεία • ‎(khreía) f ‎(genitive χρείας); first declension

1. need, want, necessity
   1. want, poverty
2. business, purpose (especially military purpose)
   1. employment, function
3. use
   1. use, advantage, service
4. familiarity, intimacy
5. maxim

Inflection

References

• χρεία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χρεία in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χρεία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• χρεία in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5532”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • acquaintance idem, page 8.
  • appeal idem, page 34.
  • application idem, page 36.
  • connection idem, page 161.
  • dearth idem, page 198.
  • demand idem, page 209.
  • desire idem, page 215.
  • entreaty idem, page 278.
  • exercise idem, page 291.
  • exigence idem, page 292.
  • familiarity idem, page 305.
  • friendship idem, page 345.
  • indulgence idem, page 435.
  • intercourse idem, page 449.
  • intimacy idem, page 454.
  • lack idem, page 473.
  • manipulation idem, page 512.
  • necessity idem, page 554.
  • need idem, page 554.
  • penury idem, page 604.
  • request idem, page 700.
  • requirement idem, page 700.
  • service idem, page 755.
  • stress idem, page 825.
  • suit idem, page 836.
  • urgency idem, page 939.
  • usage idem, page 940.
  • use idem, page 940.
  • utility idem, page 941.
  • want idem, page 961.
  • wish idem, page 983.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill