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χάρις (charis)

Greek term · 140 occurrences · 74 works

Short definition (LSJ): in objective sense, outward grace or favour, beauty, prop. of persons or their portraits, θεσπεσίην δ’ ἄρα τῷ γε χάριν κατεχεύατ’ Ἀθήνη

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140 occurrences of this form in 74 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).

Works using this form

• Sirach
  Anonymous · 11 occurrences
• Agamemnon
  Aeschylus · 8 occurrences
• Wisdom of Solomon
  Anonymous · 4 occurrences
• Discourses
  Epictetus · 4 occurrences
• Heracleidae
  Euripides · 4 occurrences
• Histories (Books 3–9)
  Herodotus · 4 occurrences
• Iliad
  Homer · 4 occurrences
• Odyssey
  Homer · 4 occurrences
• On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
  Philo of Alexandria · 4 occurrences
• On the Posterity of Cain
  Philo of Alexandria · 4 occurrences
• Idylls
  Theocritus · 4 occurrences
• Argonautica
  Apollonius of Rhodes · 3 occurrences
• Hippolytus
  Euripides · 3 occurrences
• Works and Days
  Hesiod · 3 occurrences
• Oedipus at Colonus
  Sophocles · 3 occurrences
• Alcestis
  Euripides · 2 occurrences
• Helen
  Euripides · 2 occurrences
• Medea
  Euripides · 2 occurrences
• The Suppliants
  Euripides · 2 occurrences
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2
  Josephus · 2 occurrences
• On the Confusion of Languages
  Philo of Alexandria · 2 occurrences
• On the Unchangeableness of God
  Philo of Alexandria · 2 occurrences
• On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
  Philo of Alexandria · 2 occurrences
• How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
  Plutarch · 2 occurrences
• Histories
  Polybius · 2 occurrences
• Ajax
  Sophocles · 2 occurrences
• Electra
  Sophocles · 2 occurrences
• History of the Peloponnesian War
  Thucydides · 2 occurrences
• Cyropaedia
  Xenophon · 2 occurrences
• Prometheus Bound
  Aeschylus · 1 occurrences
• Seven Against Thebes
  Aeschylus · 1 occurrences
• The Libation Bearers
  Aeschylus · 1 occurrences
• The Suppliants
  Aeschylus · 1 occurrences
• 3 Maccabees
  Anonymous · 1 occurrences
• Clouds
  Aristophanes · 1 occurrences
• Knights
  Aristophanes · 1 occurrences
• Lysistrata
  Aristophanes · 1 occurrences
• Peace
  Aristophanes · 1 occurrences
• Wasps
  Aristophanes · 1 occurrences
• Nicomachean Ethics
  Aristotle · 1 occurrences
• Philippic 1
  Demosthenes · 1 occurrences
• Library of History
  Diodorus Siculus · 1 occurrences
• Cyclops
  Euripides · 1 occurrences
• Hecuba
  Euripides · 1 occurrences
• Heracles
  Euripides · 1 occurrences
• Ion
  Euripides · 1 occurrences
• Iphigenia in Aulis
  Euripides · 1 occurrences
• Rhesus
  Euripides · 1 occurrences
• The Trojan Women
  Euripides · 1 occurrences
• Theogony
  Hesiod · 1 occurrences
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1
  Josephus · 1 occurrences
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 14
  Josephus · 1 occurrences
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 19
  Josephus · 1 occurrences
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
  Josephus · 1 occurrences
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 7
  Josephus · 1 occurrences
• On Drunkenness
  Philo of Alexandria · 1 occurrences
• On Rewards and Punishments
  Philo of Alexandria · 1 occurrences
• On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
  Philo of Alexandria · 1 occurrences
• On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
  Philo of Alexandria · 1 occurrences
• On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
  Philo of Alexandria · 1 occurrences
• On the Virtues and on the Office of Ambassadors. Adressed to Caius
  Philo of Alexandria · 1 occurrences
• On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
  Philo of Alexandria · 1 occurrences
• Euthyphro
  Plato · 1 occurrences
• Laws
  Plato · 1 occurrences
• Protagoras
  Plato · 1 occurrences
• Symposium
  Plato · 1 occurrences
• The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
  Plotinus · 1 occurrences
• On Tranquillity of Mind
  Plutarch · 1 occurrences
• On the Cleverness of Animals
  Plutarch · 1 occurrences
• Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
  Plutarch · 1 occurrences
• Oedipus Rex
  Sophocles · 1 occurrences
• Philoctetes
  Sophocles · 1 occurrences
• Trachiniae
  Sophocles · 1 occurrences
• Anabasis
  Xenophon · 1 occurrences

Example passages

…ἔστιν γὰρ αἰσχύνη ἐπάγουσα ἁμαρτίαν καὶ ἔστιν αἰσχύνη δόξα καὶ χάρις…

Anonymous — Sirach · Read in context

…δαιμόνων δέ που χάρις βίαιος…

Aeschylus — Agamemnon · Read in context

…οἱ πεποιθότες ἐπ' αὐτῷ συνήσουσιν ἀλήθειαν καὶ οἱ πιστοὶ ἐν ἀγάπῃ προσμενοῦσιν αὐτῷ ὅτι χάρις καὶ ἔλεος τοῖς ἐκλεκτοῖς αὐτοῦ…

Anonymous — Wisdom of Solomon · Read in context

Subjects

Grace, sin & free will

Related terms in Latin (same subject)

• gratia — Grace, sin & free will
• iustificatio — Grace, sin & free will
• peccatum — Grace, sin & free will

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