χαρά

χαρά — chará

χαρά, χαρᾶς, ἡ (χαίρω), from Aeschylus and Sophocles down, the Sept. for שִׂמְחָה and שָׂשׂון, joy, gladness; a: Luk 1:14; Luk 15:7; Luk 15:10; Joh 15:11; Joh 16:22; Joh 16:24; Joh 17:13; Act 8:8; 2Co 7:13; 2Co 8:2; Gal 5:22; Col 1:11; Php 2:2; 1Jn 1:4; 2Jn 1:12; opposed to κατήφεια, Jas 4:9; opposed to λύπη, Joh 16:20; 2Co 2:3; Heb 12:11; ὑμῶν, i. e. the joy received from you, 2Co 1:24 (opposed to the 'sorrow' which Paul on returning to Corinth would both experience and give, 2Co 2:1-3); χαρά τῆς πίστεως, springing from faith, Php 1:25; χαίρειν χαράν μέγαν Mat 2:10 (Winers Grammar, § 32, 2; Buttmann, 131, 5); ἀγαλλίασθαι χαρά, 1Pe 1:8; χαράν (Rec.st χάριν) πολλήν ἐήξειν ἐπί with a dative of the thing, Phm 1:7; πληροῦν τινα χαρᾶς, Rom 15:13; πληροῦσθαι χαρᾶς, Act 13:52; 2Ti 1:4; ποιεῖν τίνι χαράν μεγάλην, Act 15:3; ἀπό τῆς χαρᾶς, for joy, Mat 13:44; Luk 24:41; Act 12:14; ἐν χαρά (ἔρχεσθαι), Rom 15:32; μετά χαρᾶς, with joy, Mat 13:20; Mat 28:8; Mar 4:16; Luk 8:13; Luk 10:17; Luk 24:52; Act 20:24 Rec.; Php 1:4; Php 2:29; Heb 10:34; Heb 13:17 (Polybius 11, 33, 7; 22, 17, 12; Xenophon, Hiero 1, 25); with πνεύματος ἁγίου added, joy wrought by the Holy Spirit, 1Th 1:6; χαρά ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ, joyousness caused by (cf. ἐν, I. 6 (p. 211{b} bottom) and Buttmann, § 133, 23) the Holy Spirit, Rom 14:17; χαρά ἐπί τίνι, 2Co 7:4; χαίρειν χαρά διά τί, Joh 3:29 (cf. χαίρω, a.); also διά τινα (a relative pronoun intervening), 1Th 3:9; ἡ χαρά ὅτι, Joh 16:21; χαρά ἵνα (see ἵνα, II. 2 d.), 3Jn 1:4.

b. by metonymy, the cause or occasion of joy: Luk 2:10; Jas 1:2; (so 2Co 1:15 WH text Tr marginal reading (others, χάρις, which see 3 b.)); of persons who are one's 'joy': 1Th 2:19; Php 4:1; of a joyful condition or state: ἀντί... χαρᾶς, to attain to blessedness at the right hand of God in heaven, Heb 12:2; the same idea is expressed in the parable by the words, ἡ χαρά τοῦ κυρίου, the blessedness which the Lord enjoys, Mat 25:21; Mat 25:23.