What does χαριτόω (charitóō) mean in the Bible?
χαριτόω (charitóō): To bestow divine grace or favor, making one the recipient of God's unmerited blessing.
Greek · G5487
χαριτόω
To favor
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χαριτόω G5487
Pronunciation charitóō
What does χαριτόω (charitóō) mean in the Bible?
χαριτόω (charitóō): To bestow divine grace or favor, making one the recipient of God's unmerited blessing.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G5487?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include He has freely given (1), you who are highly favored (1).
Where does χαριτόω (charitóō) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 1:28. Its strongest book concentrations include Ephesians (1), Luke (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It He has freely given 1× Ephesians 1:6
you who are highly favored 1× Luke 1:28
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Usage map
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First aligned row Luke 1:28
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 2
Luke 1 Ephesians 1
Source forms
ἐχαρίτωσεν 1x echaritōsen Ephesians 1:6
κεχαριτωμένη 1x kecharitōmenē Luke 1:28
Parsing patterns
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular 1x Ephesians 1:6
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Vocative Feminine Singular 1x Luke 1:28
Evidence Summary
Greek word. To bestow divine grace or favor, making one the recipient of God's unmerited blessing.
Strong's G5487
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Luke 1:26–38 Source Gloss
to favor
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
To bestow divine grace or favor, making one the recipient of God's unmerited blessing.
(χάρις), [in LXX: Sir.18:17 (ἀνδρί κεχαριτωμένῳ; Vg., justificato; Syr., saintly) * ;] to endow with χάρις (which see), i.e.
1(a) to make graceful;
bto make gracious (Sir, l.with).
2In Hellenistic writings (for exx., see AR, Eph., 227; Lft., Notes, 315),
ato cause to find favour;
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 1:28 Verb Perfect Passive Participle Nominative Singular Feminine
κεχαριτωμένη· kecaritwmenh
I favor, bestow freely on
Read verse Ephesians 1:6 Verb Third Person Singular Aorist Active Indicative
ἐχαρίτωσεν ecaritwsen
I favor, bestow freely on
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
Form groups 2 Aligned forms 2 Tenses Perfect, Aorist Voices Passive, Active
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Tenses
Voices
Participle verbal adjective — the action as a modifying quality 1×
Perfect Passive Luke 1:28 1×
Indicative states a fact or reality 1×
Aorist Active Eph 1:6 1×
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 2 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
aorist 1 perfect 1
Voice
active 1 passive 1
Mood
indicative 1 participle 1
NT Occurrences
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
Additional Occurrences
Luke 1:26–38 κεχαριτωμένη charitóō
Favored, endowed with grace
New Testament Witnesses
having been graced
Word Origins
χαριτόω is built from this root:
Why This Word Matters
Highlights divine initiative and covenant favor.
Canonical Themes
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain