Lexicon
χρηματίζω
chrēmatizō
G5537
G:V Greek

to announce

9
Occurrences
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Books
Greek
Language

chrematizo marks a communicated warning, instruction, or revelation, and can also mark being called by a name.

Its dominant use concerns a communicated notice that warns, directs, instructs, or reveals something, while a smaller group of verses uses it for receiving a designation or name. The contexts include dream warnings, a revelation concerning what someone will see, instruction about making the tent, and being called Christians or an adulteress.

Senses in use

  1. Communicating a warning, direction, or revelation · dominant

    In Matthew 2:12 and Matthew 2:22, passive participles occur in clauses where the APB renders people as having been "warned in a dream" before changing their travel plans. Luke 2:26 presents a completed passive participle in the statement that something "had been revealed" to him, while Acts 10:22, Hebrews 8:5, Hebrews 11:7, and Hebrews 12:25 place the term in notices that direct, instruct, warn, or speak.

  2. Being designated by a name or status · occasional

    Acts 11:26 uses an aorist active infinitive in the report that the disciples were first "called Christians" in Antioch. Romans 7:3 uses a future active form in the statement that a woman will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man while her husband lives.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB variously presents the communication as being "directed," "warned," "instructed," or having something "revealed," and it uses "called" for designation by name. These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture