dōrea · gift

What it means

dōrea (δωρεά) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “gift”.

What is given freely, without being paid for or earned.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Something given freely, like what God gives.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• John×1
• Acts×4
• Romans×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×2
• Hebrews×1

• John 4:10

  Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give me something to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

• Acts 2:38

  And Peter said to them, “Change your minds, and let each of you be immersed in the name of Jesus the Messiah for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

• Acts 8:20

  But Peter said to him, “May your silver go to destruction with you, because you thought you could acquire the gift of God with money!

• Acts 10:45

  And the believers from among the circumcised, as many as had come with Peter, were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the nations.

• Acts 11:17

  So if God gave them the same gift as also to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus the Messiah, who was I to be able to hinder God?”

• Romans 5:15

  But not as the trespass, so also is the gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one man Jesus the Messiah abound for the many.

• Romans 5:17

  For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus the Messiah.

• 2 Corinthians 9:15

  Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

• Ephesians 3:7

  of which I became a servant according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me according to the working of his power.

• Ephesians 4:7

  But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of the Messiah.

• Hebrews 6:4

  For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become sharers in the Holy Spirit,