Charakter means “express image” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5481 — cumeponeyah (“dulcimer”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5481 χαρακτήρ (charakter) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. charakter (khar-ak-tare') n. 1. a graver (the tool or the person) 2. (by implication) engraving (("character"), the figure stamped, i.e. an exact copy or (figuratively) representation) It has 4 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include person. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
charakter (khar-ak-tare') n. 1. a graver (the tool or the person) 2. (by implication) engraving (("character"), the figure stamped, i.e. an exact copy or (figuratively) representation) [from charasso "to sharpen to a point" (akin to G1125 through the idea of scratching)] KJV: express image Compare: G5482, G5480 See also: G1125
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5481. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: χαρακτήρ, -ῆρος, ὁ (χαράσσω, to engrave), [in LXX: Lev.13:28 (צָרֶבֶת), 2Ma.4:10, 4Ma.15:4 א R * ;] __1. a tool for graving. __2. a stamp or impress: as on a coin or seal; metaphorically, χ. τ. ὑποστάσεως, Heb.1:3.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render charakter, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5481 (χαρακτήρ) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But if the bright spot remain stationary, and be not spread in the skin, but the sore should be dark, it is a scar of inflammation; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the mark of the inflammation.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten into his hand the rule, he forthwith brought his own nation to the Greekish fashion.
O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them!
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5481.
But if the bright spot remain stationary, and be not spread in the skin, but the sore should be dark, it is a scar of inflammation; and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the mark of the inflammation.
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten into his hand the rule, he forthwith brought his own nation to the Greekish fashion.
O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them!
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5481, grouped by book.
Charakter (Strong's G5481) is a Greek word most simply glossed "express image". charakter (khar-ak-tare') n. 1. a graver (the tool or the person) 2. (by implication) engraving (("character"), the figure stamped, i.e. an exact copy or (figuratively) representation)
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G5481 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5481 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as person. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5481, with linked reader references where each row is available.