Chrēsis — G5540
G5540 · Greek — χρῆσις
Pronunciation: khray'-sis
Definition
feminine noun
employment, i.e. (specially), sexual intercourse (as an occupation of the body)
Usually translated as
use
Occurrences
Chrēsis occurs 2 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Romans (2)
- Romans 1:26 — For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use (χρῆσιν) into that which is against nature:
- Romans 1:27 — And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use (χρῆσιν) of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Strong's Lexicon — C