Chrestotes means “gentleness” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5544 — cillon (“brier”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5544 χρηστότης (chrestotes) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. chrestotes (khray-stot'-ace) n. 1. usefulness, i.e. morally, excellence (in character or demeanor) [from G5543] It has 24 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include kindness, good, and gentleness. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
chrestotes (khray-stot'-ace) n. 1. usefulness, i.e. morally, excellence (in character or demeanor) [from G5543] KJV: gentleness, good(-ness), kindness Root(s): G5543
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kindness
Usage: χρηστότης, -ητος, ἡ (χρηστός), [in LXX for טוּב and cogn. forms ;] __1. goodness, excellence, uprightness: Rom.3:12 (LXX). __2. goodness of heart, kindness: Rom.2:4, 2Co.6:6, Gal.5:22, Col.3:12, Tit.3:4; before ἐπί, with accusative of person(s), Eph.2:7; id., opposite to ἀποτομία, Rom.11:22. SYN.: see: ἀγαθωσύνη. (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render chrestotes, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 G5544 (χρηστότης) appears 16 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
8 indexed usages in New Testament.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
15 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For the end, a Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in their devices; There is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
For thou hast prevented him with blessings of goodness: Thou hast set upon his head a crown of precious stone.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jeshua, and his sons and brethren, and Kadmiel his brother, and the sons of Emadabun, with the sons of Joda the son of Iliadun, with their sons and brethren, all Levites, with one accord setters-forward of the business, laboring to advance the works in the house of the Lord. So the builders built the temple of the Lord.
First 24 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5544.
For the end, a Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, and become abominable in their devices; There is none that does goodness, there is not even so much as one.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
For thou hast prevented him with blessings of goodness: Thou hast set upon his head a crown of precious stone.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my sins of ignorance: Remember me according to thy mercy, For thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.
How abundant is the multitude of thy goodness, O Lord, Which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! Thou hast wrought it out for them that hope on thee, In the presence of the sons of men.
Hope in the Lord, and do good; And dwell on the land, and thou shalt be fed with the wealth of it.
Thou wilt bless the crown of the year because of thy goodness; And thy plains shall be filled with fatness.
Thy creatures dwell in it: Thou hast in thy goodness prepared for the poor.
For the Lord will give goodness; And our land shall yield her fruit.
When thou hast given it them, they will gather it; And when thou hast opened thy hand, they shall all be filled with good.
That we may behold the good of thine elect, That we may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, That we may glory with thine inheritance.
Thou hast wrought kindly with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word.
Teach me kindness, and instruction, and knowledge: For I have believed thy commandments.
Good art thou, O Lord; therefore in thy goodness Teach me thine ordinances.
They shall utter the memory of the abundance of thy goodness, And shall exult in thy righteousness.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
And they appointed the Levites from twenty years old over the works of the Lord. Then stood up Jeshua, and his sons and brethren, and Kadmiel his brother, and the sons of Emadabun, with the sons of Joda the son of Iliadun, with their sons and brethren, all Levites, with one accord setters-forward of the business, laboring to advance the works in the house of the Lord. So the builders built the temple of the Lord.
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Chrestotes (Strong's G5544) is a Greek word most simply glossed "gentleness". chrestotes (khray-stot'-ace) n. 1. usefulness, i.e. morally, excellence (in character or demeanor) [from G5543]
This page currently indexes 24 linked usages for Strong's G5544 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5544 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 kindness, good, and gentleness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 15 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5544, with linked reader references where each row is available.