Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

χαρά

Vocabulary form: 
carav, -a:V, hJ
Definition: 
joy, delight
Frequency: 
59
GK: 
5915
Root: 
cara
Mnemonic Singing: 
Joy to the world the Lord is come;
let earth receive her King.

Biblical Concordance

Hebrews 13:17 Continue to obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who must give an account. Let them do this with joy (charas | χαρᾶς | gen sg fem), and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
James 1:2 Consider it sheer joy (charan | χαράν | acc sg fem), my brothers, when you encounter various kinds of trials,
James 4:9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy (chara | χαρά | nom sg fem) into gloom.
1 Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though not seeing him now, yet believing in him, you rejoice with joy (chara | χαρᾷ | dat sg fem) unspeakable and filled with glory,
1 John 1:4 These things we are writing that our joy (chara | χαρά | nom sg fem) may be complete.
2 John 1:12 Although I have many other things to write to you, I do not want to use paper and ink; instead, I hope to be with you and speak face to face, so that our joy (chara | χαρά | nom sg fem) may be complete.
3 John 1:4 I have no greater joy (charan | χαράν | acc sg fem) than this: to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

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