STRONGS G5536:
χρῆμα,
χρηματος,
τό (
χράομαι), in Greek writings whatever is for use, whatever one uses,
a thing, matter, affair, event, business; specifically,
money (rarely so in the singular in secular authors, as
Herodotus 3, 38;
Diodorus 13, 106 (cf. Liddell and Scott, under the word I. under the end)):
Acts 4:37; plural
riches (often in Greek writings from
Homer, Odyssey 2, 78; 16, 315 etc. down),
Mark 10:24 (
T WH omit;
Tr marginal reading brackets the clause);
οἱ τά χρήματα ἔχοντες,
they that have riches, Mark 10:23;
Luke 18:24;
money, Acts 8:18,
20;
Acts 24:26 (for
כֶּסֶף, silver,
Job 27:17; for
נִכָסִים, riches,
Joshua 22:8;
2 Chronicles 1:11f).
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