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|txtha=. χρωμαι; [[imperfect]] 3rd [[person]] plural ἐχρῶντο; 1st aorist ἐχρησάμην; [[perfect]] [[κέχρημαι]] (G L T Tr WH); from [[Homer]] [[down]]; ([[middle]] of [[χράω]] ([[thought]] to be [[allied]] by metathesis [[with]] [[χείρ]] (cf. [[Curtius]], § 189)), 'to [[grant]] a [[loan]]', 'to [[lend]]' ([[but]] cf. Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]]; [[they]] [[regard]] the [[radical]] [[sense]] as 'to [[furnish]] [[what]] is [[needful]]'); [[hence]])<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]], to [[receive]] a [[loan]]; to [[borrow]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[take]] for [[one]]'s [[use]]; to [[use]]: τίνι (Winer s Grammar, § 31,1i.), to [[make]] [[use]] of a [[thing]], τῷ κόσμῳ, the [[good]] things of [[this]] [[world]], R G ([[see]] [[below]]); [[μᾶλλον]] [[χρῆσαι]], [[namely]], the [[opportunity]] of [[becoming]] [[free]], τῷ κληθῆναι [[δοῦλον]] ([[see]] references [[under]] the [[word]] εἰ, III:6a.)). [[contrary]] to the [[regular]] [[usage]] of classical Greek [[with]] an accusative: [[τόν]] κόσμον, L T Tr WH; [[see]] Meyer at the [[passage]]; Buttmann, § 133,18; Winer's Grammar, as [[above]]; ([[also]] in [[Aristotle]], oecon. 2,22, p. 1350{a}, 7)). [[with]] the dative of a [[virtue]] or [[vice]] describing the [[mode]] of [[thinking]] or acting: τῇ ἐλαφρίᾳ (R. V. '[[shew]] [[fickleness]]'), [[πολλή]] [[παρρησία]], [[Herodotus]] [[down]], [[see]] Passow, ii., p. 2497b; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], II. a.)). [[with]] adverbs ([[see]] Passow, ii., p. 2497{a}; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], IV.)): [[ἀποτόμως]], to [[deal]] [[sharply]], [[use]] [[sharpness]], τίνι, to [[bear]] [[oneself]] toward, to [[deal]] [[with]], [[treat]], [[one]] ([[often]] so in Greek writings; [[see]] Passow, ii., p. 2496{b}; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], III:1,2)), Acts 27:3.

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