charisma · gift

What it means

charisma (χάρισμα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “gift”.

A free gift of God's grace, including the abilities he gives for serving others.

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 God gives that one has not earned.

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

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• gift ×10
• gifts ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Romans×6
• 1 Corinthians×7
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• 1 Peter×1

• Romans 1:11

  For I long to see you, so that I may share some spiritual gift with you for you to be strengthened;

• 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 5:16

  And the free gift is not like what came through the one who sinned; for the judgment came from one for condemnation, but the gift from many trespasses for a sentence of righteousness.

• Romans 6:23

  For the pay of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in the Messiah Jesus our Lord.

• Romans 11:29

  For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

• Romans 12:6

  And having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, if it is prophecy, let it be according to the proportion of faith;

• 1 Corinthians 1:7

  so that you do not lack in any gift, as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah;

• 1 Corinthians 7:7

  Now I wish all people were as I myself am; but each has his own gift from God, one of one kind, and another of another.

• 1 Corinthians 12:4

  Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

• 1 Corinthians 12:9

  to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

• 1 Corinthians 12:28

  And God has placed some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, administration, kinds of tongues.

• 1 Corinthians 12:30

  Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?

• 1 Corinthians 12:31

  But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.

• 2 Corinthians 1:11

  while you also help together for us by your prayer, so that thanks may be given on our behalf by many people for the gift granted to us through many.

• 1 Timothy 4:14

  Do not neglect the gift in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the council of elders.

• 2 Timothy 1:6

  For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands;

• 1 Peter 4:10

  Each one, as he has received a gift, serving one another with it as good stewards of the varied grace of God.