δωρεά: Difference between revisions

|txtha=δωρεᾶς, ἡ ([[δίδωμι]]); from (Aeschyh and) [[Herodotus]] [[down]]; a [[gift]]: ἡ [[χάρις]] ἐδόθη [[κατά]] τό [[μέτρον]] τῆς δωρεᾶς [[τοῦ]] Χριστοῦ, according to the [[measure]] in [[which]] Christ gave it, [[τοῦ]] ἁγίου πνεύματος, δικαιοσύνης, L WH Tr marginal [[reading]] brackets τῆς δωρεᾶς); τῆς [[χάριτος]] [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, [[δωρεάν]] ([[properly]], as a [[gift]], [[gift]]-[[wise]] (cf. Winer s Grammar, 230 (216); Buttmann, 153 (134))) is used adverbially; the Sept. for חִנָּם;<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[freely]], for [[naught]], [[gratis]], [[gratuitously]]: [[Polybius]] 18,17, 7; [[δωρεάν]] [[ἄνευ]] ἀργυρίου, [[without]] [[just]] [[cause]], [[unnecessarily]]: Symm. [[ἀναιτίως]]); so the Latin gratuitus: Livy 2,42 gratuitus furor, Seneca, epistles 105,3 ([[book]] xviii., [[epistle]] 2, § 3) [[odium]] aut est ex offensa ... aut gratuitum). (Synonym: [[see]] [[δόμα]], at the [[end]].)