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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #2821 - κλῆσις

Transliteration

klēsis

Phonetics

klay'-sis

Origin

from a shorter form of (G2564)

Parts of Speech

Noun Feminine

TDNT

3:491,394

Definition

Thayer's

a calling, calling to
a call, invitation
1. to a feast
2. of the divine invitation to embrace salvation of God

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 7121 ‑ קָרָא (kaw‑raw');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (11)

Romans

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

Philippians

2 Thessalonians

2 Timothy

Hebrews

2 Peter

NAS (11)

Romans

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

Philippians

2 Thessalonians

2 Timothy

Hebrews

2 Peter

HCS (11)

Romans

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

Philippians

2 Thessalonians

2 Timothy

Hebrews

2 Peter

BSB (11)

Romans

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

Philippians

2 Thessalonians

2 Timothy

Hebrews

2 Peter

ESV (11)

Romans

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

Philippians

2 Thessalonians

2 Timothy

Hebrews

2 Peter

WEB (13)

Romans

1 Corinthians

Ephesians

Philippians

2 Thessalonians

2 Timothy

Hebrews

2 Peter

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

κλῆσις, εως, ἡ,

(καλέω)

1. calling, call, Pl. Smp. 172a, X. Cyr. 3.2.14, etc.

2. calling into court, summons, prosecution, Ar. Nu. 875, 1189, etc.; τὰς κλήσεις καλεῖσθαι ὅσας ἔδει Antipho 6.38; ἀφιέναι τὰς κ. X. HG 1.7.13.

3. invitation to a feast, Id. Smp. 1.7; εἰς τὸ πρυτανεῖον D. 19.32; κλήσεις δείπνων Plu. Per. 7, cf. Parmenisc. ap. Ath. 4.156d.

4. invocation, θεῶν Men.Rh. p.333 S.

5. calling to aid, Plb. 2.50.7.

6. calling in a religious sense, 1 Corinthians 7:20.

II name, appellation, Pl. Plt. 262d, 287e, Dsc. 1.42; τοὺς θεοὺς εἶναι κ. ἱεράς Cleanth.Stoic. 1.123; Φιλησίη τὴν κ. by name, IG 14.2067; reputation, Phld. Rh. 2.46 S.

III Gramm., αἱ κ. τῶν ὀνομάτων the nominatives, opp. αἱ πτώσεις (the oblique cases), Arist. APr. 48b41; ἔχειν θηλείας ἢ ἄρρενος κλῆσιν the nominative form of.., Id. SE 173b40, cf. 182a18. = Lat. classis, D.H. 4.18.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

κλῆσις , -εως , ἡ (καλέω ),

[in LXX: Jeremiah 31:6 (H7121), Judith 12:10 A, 3 Maccabees 5:14 *;]

a calling, call; in NT, always of the Divine call to salvation: Romans 11:29, 1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 7:20, Ephesians 1:18; Ephesians 4:1; Ephesians 4:4, Philippians 3:14, 2 Thessalonians 1:11, 2 Timothy 1:9, Hebrews 3:1, 2 Peter 1:10 (Cremer, 332).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

A section of the long legal P Hal I. 1 (mid. iii/B.C.) is headed—.222 Εἰς μαρτ [υρί ]αν κλῆσις, ";a call to witness"; : then follows a description of the process. The word is used in the same restricted sense in Epict. i. 29. 49 ταῦτα μέλλεις μαρτυρεῖν καὶ καταισχύνειν τὴν κλῆσιν ἣν κέκληκεν [ὁ θεός ]; cf. ib. l.c. 46 ὡς μαρτὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ κεκλημένος, and see further Bonhöffer Epict. pp. 37 ff., 207 f. The meaning is raised to a higher power in such passages as Ephesians 4:1, where, as always in the NT, κλῆσις is the divine call to salvation. In the sepulchral epitaph of a young child, Kaibel 571.4 (i/ii A.D.), the word is used = ";name";—

Φιλησίη τὴν κλῆσιν, Αὐσονὶς γένος.

And in the magical P Leid V ix. 30 (iii/iv A.D.) (= II. p. 33) τελοῦντος δέ σου, καθ᾽ ἑκάστην κλῆσιν ἐπίσπενδε τὰ προκείμενα, the editor (p. 68) understands by καθ᾽ ἑκ. κλ. ";ad singulas invocaliones, i.e. quotiescumque haec invocatio pronuntiabitur.";

List of Word Forms

κλησει κλήσει κλησεως κλήσεως κλησιν κλήσιν κλῆσιν κλησις κλήσις κλῆσις klesei klēsei klḗsei kleseos klēseōs klḗseos klḗseōs klesin klêsin klēsin klē̂sin klesis klêsis klēsis klē̂sis

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