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Strong's #5537 - χρηματίζω
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- to transact business, esp. to manage public affairs
- to advise or consult with one about public affairs
- to make answer to those who ask for advice, present enquiries or requests, etc.
- of judges, magistrates, rulers, kings
- to give a response to those consulting an oracle, to give a divine command or admonition, to teach from heaven
- to be divinely commanded, admonished, instructed
- to be the mouthpiece of divine revelations, to promulgate the commands of God
- to assume or take to one's self a name from one's public business
- to receive a name or title, be called
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χρημᾰτ-ίζω,
fut. -ίσω Romans 7:3, Att. χρημᾰτ-ιῶ Lycurg. 37: pf. κεχρημάτικα Din. 1.103, OGI 106.7 (Egypt, ii B. C.): (χρῆμα): —
Prose Verb, negotiate, have dealings, esp. in money matters (in this sense mostly Med. (v. infr.11)), Th. 1.87, 5.61, Plb. 5.81.5; χ. τι Th. 6.62, Isoc. 4.157, Plu. Them. 18.
2. of public assemblies, deliberate, περὶ Εὐριπίδου ὅ τι χρὴ παθεῖν Ar. Th. 377, cf. Arist. Pol. 1298b29, Rh. 1359b3, Lexap. D. 21.8; τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν δημοσίων Plu. Tim. 38; περὶ ὧν ἂν ἅπαξ γνῷ τὸ δικαστήριον, πάλινχρηματίσαι D. 24.55; of presiding officers, conduct business, Decr. ap. D. 18.75, cf. Aeschin. 1.23; of the βουλή, D. 18.169; ὅσα δεῖ χρηματίσαι τὴν βουλήν Arist. Ath. 43.3. c. dat., transact business with, τῇ βουλῇ, τῷ δήμῳ, X. Ath. 3.1; negotiate with, πόλεσι περὶ φιλίας Th. 5.5: abs., ib. 61; ἰδίᾳ χ., of intriguing persons, D. 19.278; χ. ὑπὲρ δημοσίων καὶ κοινῶν πραγμάτων Ael. VH 3.4: — Med., X. Ath. 3.3.
3. give audience to, πρεσβευταῖς Plb. 3.66.6, cf. Jul. Or. 1.13a.
4. of an oracle, give a response to those who consult it, LXX Jeremiah 26:2(33).2, al., D.S. 15.10, JAJ 11.8.4, Plu. 2.435c, Porph. Abst. 2.48; δι' ὕδατος Iamb. Myst. 3.11; of gods, give ear to, χ. τοῖς εὐχομένοις Luc. Pseudol. 8: — Pass., receive an answer, warning, in NT of divine warnings or revelations, Matthew 2:12, etc.; ὑπ' ἀγγέλου Acts 10:22; ἦν αὐτῷ κεχρηματισμένον a warning had been given him, Luke 2:26; χ. ὑπὸ δαιμονίων καὶ φαντασίας εἰδώλων Vett.Val. 67.5.
5. issue ordinances, etc., χ. ἀπορρήσεις Ph. 2.438; administer justice, ἐν τῷ Προσωπίτῃ OGI l.c.; ταῖς πόλεσι App. Hisp. 98. issue orders for payment, pay, ἀπὸ τῆς.. τραπέζης PGrenf. 2.23.4 (ii B. C.); τιϝι Ostr.Bodl. i248 (ii B. C.); λόγον χ. ἐς τὰ δαμόσια γράμματα furnish an account.., Arch. f. Religionswiss. 10.211 (Cos, ii B. C.): — Pass., ἐχρηματίσθη πολλὰ διάφορα he was furnished with large sums, Aristeas 9.
6. take cognizance of, decide upon petitions, [ ἐντευξιν] χ. PEnteux. 75.9 (iii B. C.), PFay. 12.28 (ii B. C.); ἔντευξις κεχρηματισμένη PPetr. 2p.3 (iii B. C.).
7. generally, have dealings with, stand in any relation to a person, οὐδὲν αὐτῷ (sic legendum videtur) πρὸς γένος ἐχρημάτιζεν Ctes. Fr. 29.2: hence even μόλις ταῖς ἀναγκαίαις [ὀρέξεσι] χ. to be influenced, affected by them, Plu. 2.125b.
8. Astrol., operate, of influences, Vett.Val. 5.7.
II Med., χρηματίζομαι: fut. Att. -ιοῦμαι Lys. 29.14, etc.: pf. κεχρημάτισμαι Din. 1.15: — negotiate or transact business for oneself or to one's own profit, make money, οἰόμενοι χρηματιεῖσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ μαχεῖσθαι Th. 7.13; χρηματιούμενος ἀλλ' οὐ πρὸς ὑμᾶς φιλοτιμησόμενος Lys. l.c.; οἱ χρηματισάμενοι Pl. R. 330c; ἄλλῳ χ. καὶ οὐχ αὑτῷ Id. Grg. 452e; esp. by base arts, ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς πόλεως Din. l. c., cf. Isa 9.25; χ. ἀπό τινος to make money of or from a thing, Pl. Sph. 225e; ἀπὸ τῶν κοινῶν Arist. Pol. 1286b14; ἀπὸ γεωμετρίας Iamb. Comm.Math. 25; ἔκ τινος Lys. 25.3; ἐ, φιλοσοφίας Isoc. 11.1; also c. acc. cogn., χ. τὸν ἐκ γῆς χρηματισμόν Id. Lg. 949e, cf. Grg. 467d; χρήματα X. Cyr. 3.3.5.
2. generally, transact business, have dealings with.., τινι Hdt. 3.118, 7.163.
3. c. acc. rei, χ. τὸ νόμισμα traffic in money, like a money-lender or banker, Arist. Pol. 1257b34; but c. acc. pers., χ. τινας make money out of any one, i. e. get it from them by extortion, Plb. 32.5.13; so χ. παρὰ τῶν νεωτέρων Isoc. 10.6.
III in later writers, from Plb. downwards, the Act. χρηματίζω takes some special senses: 1 to take and bear a title or name, to be called or styled so and so, χρηματίζειν βασιλεύς Plb. 5.57.2, 30.2.4, cf. Aristeas 298; Πτολεμαῖος.. νέος Διόνυσος χ. D.S. 1.44; ἐχρημάτιζε Χαλκηδόνιος, Κρητικός, Str. 13.1.55, App. Sic. 6; νέα Ἶσις ἐχρημάτιζε Plu. Ant. 54; μὴ πατρόθεν, ἀλλ' ἀπὸ μητέρων χ. to call themselves not after their fathers, but after their mothers, Id. 2.248d; χ. ἀπὸ τοῦ δήμου Harp. s.v. δημοτευόμενος; χ. τοὺς μαθητὰς Χριστιανούς Acts 11:26; τιμῆς καὶ πίστεως χ. ἄξιοι to be deemed.., App. BC 2.111.
2. generally, to be called, μοιχαλίς Romans 7:3 : μήτηρ Ph. 1.440; καὶ ὡς χ. 'and so forth' (omitting some of the writer's names), POxy. 100.1 (ii A. D.), etc.; also c. dat., ἀεὶ -ίζων τῷ προκειμένῳ ὀνοματίῳ ib. 2131.8 (iii A. D.).
3. change or be changed, εἴς τι Gp. 12.1.9.
χρηματίζω; future χρηματίσω (Romans 7:3 (cf. Buttmann, 37 (33)); in Greek writings everywhere the Attic χρηματιω, so too Jeremiah 32:16
1. "to transact business, especially to manage public affairs; to advise or consult with one about public affairs; to make answer to those who ask advice, present inquiries or requests," etc.; used of judges, magistrates, rulers, kings. Hence, in some later Greek writings,
2. to give a response to those consulting an oracle (Diodorus 3, 6; 15, 10; Plutarch, mor., p. 435 c. (i. e. de defect. oracc. 46); several times in Lucian); hence, used of God in Josephus, Antiquities 5, 1, 14; 10, 1, 3; 11, 8, 4; universally, (dropping all reference to a previous consultation), to give a divine command or admonition, to teach from heaven ((Jeremiah 32:16
3. to assume or take to oneself a name from one's public business (Polybius, Diodorus, Plutarch, others); universally, to receive a name or title, be called: Acts 11:26; Romans 7:3 (Josephus, Antiquities (8, 6, 2); 13, 11, 3; b. j. 2, 18, 7; (c. Apion. 2, 3, 1; Philo, quod deus immut. § 25 at the end; leg. ad Gaium § 43); Ἀντίοχον τόν Ἐπιφανῆ χρηματίζοντα, Diodorus in Müller's fragment vol. ii, p. 17, no. 21:4; Ἰάκωβον τόν χρηματισαντα ἀδελφόν τοῦ κυρίου, Acta Philippi at the beginning, p. 75; Tdf. edition; Ἰακώβου ... ὅν καί ἀδελφόν τοῦ Χριστοῦ χρηματίσαι οἱ Θειοι λόγοι περιέχουσιν, Eus. h. e. 7, 19; (cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, 2)).
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χρηματίζω
(<χρῆμα ),
[in LXX: Jeremiah 26:2; Jeremiah 29:23; Jeremiah 30:2; Jeremiah 36:2; Jeremiah 36:4 A (H1696 pi.), Jeremiah 25:30) (H7580), 1 Kings 18:27, Job 40:8 *;]
1. to transact business, hence, to consult, deliberate (Thuc., Dem., al.); hence in later writers,
2. to make answer (esp. of offcial pronouncements by magistrates, etc.; in Papyri of the royal reply to an ἔντευξις , q.v.; cf. Deiss., BS, 122); of an answer by an oracle (Died., Plut., al.); in FlJ, LXX and NT, of divine communications, to instruct, admonish, warn: pass. (Bl., § 54, 3), Matthew 2:22, Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 11:7; Hebrews 12:25; c. inf. (Bl., § 69,4; 70, 3; 72, 5), Matthew 2:12, Luke 2:26, Acts 10:22.
3. to assume a name (as in business), be called (Polyb., al.): Acts 11:26, Romans 7:3 (gnomic fut.; cf. Burton, § 69).†
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