chronos · time

What it means

chronos (χρόνος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “time”.

A span of time.

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. A span of days, brief or lengthy.

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

Word study

Time, as something that lasts: a span, longer or shorter. Thayer defines it as time in general, whether short or long. Next to καιρός, the fitting moment, Acts 1:7 says “times or seasons”.

• “A long time”, “no little time”: duration John 5:6Matthew 25:19Acts 14:28
• “Have I been with you so long?” John 14:9
• “The fullness of time” Galatians 4:4
• “The times” that God sets or overlooks Acts 1:7Acts 17:301 Thessalonians 5:1
• “Before eternal times” 2 Timothy 1:9

How we translate it

“Time” 36 times and “times” 8. Some Greek expressions are better said in other ways: “while” (4) or “as long as” (2) when the phrase means ‘for the time that’; “so long” in John 14:9; “a period of forty years” (Acts 7:23) and “forty years’ time” (Acts 13:18), where the Greek speaks of a time of forty years; and “many times” in Luke 8:29.

How it is translated

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

• time ×36
• times ×8
• while ×4
• As long as ×2
• long ×2
• period ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×2
• Luke×7
• John×4
• Acts×17
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×2
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×3
• 1 Peter×4
• Jude×1
• Revelation×4

• Matthew 2:7

  Then Herod secretly called the magi and learned precisely from them the time when the star appeared.

• Matthew 2:16

  Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the magi, was greatly enraged, and sending men, he killed all the children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had learned precisely from the magi.

• Matthew 25:19

  Now after a long time the master of those slaves comes and settles accounts with them.

• Mark 2:19

  And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

• Mark 9:21

  And he asked his father, “How long is it since this has been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood;

• Luke 1:57

  Now for Elizabeth the time came for her to give birth, and she bore a son.

• Luke 4:5

  And leading him up, he showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited world in a moment of time.

• Luke 8:27

  And when he stepped out onto the land, a certain man from the town who had demons met him; and for a long time he had not worn clothing, and he was not living in a house but in the tombs.

• Luke 8:29

  For he was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it had seized him, and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserted places.

• Luke 18:4

  And for a while he was not willing; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,

• Luke 20:9

  And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad for a long time.

• Luke 23:8

  And when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, because he had heard about him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him.

• John 5:6

  When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been in that condition a long time, he says to him, “Do you want to become well?”

• John 7:33

  So Jesus said, “I am with you a little while longer, and then I go to the one who sent me.

• John 12:35

  So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you; and whoever walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

• John 14:9

  Jesus says to him, “Have I been with you so long and you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

• Acts 1:6

  So those who had come together were asking him, saying, “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?”

• Acts 1:7

  He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority;

• Acts 1:21

  So it is necessary, of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

• Acts 3:21

  whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things, of which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from long ago.

• Acts 7:17

  But as the time of the promise that God had promised to Abraham drew near, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

• Acts 7:23

  And when a period of forty years was being completed for him, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

• Acts 8:11

  And they were paying attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic arts.

• Acts 13:18

  And for about forty years’ time he put up with them in the wilderness.

• Acts 14:3

  So they stayed a long time, speaking boldly in reliance on the Lord, who was testifying to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done through their hands.

• Acts 14:28

  And they stayed no little time with the disciples.

• Acts 15:33

  And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

• Acts 17:30

  So God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all people everywhere to change their minds,

• Acts 18:20

  And when they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not consent,

• Acts 18:23

  And after spending some time there, he departed, going through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

• Acts 19:22

  And having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed for a time in Asia.

• Acts 20:18

  And when they came to him, he said to them, “You know from the first day on which I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

• Acts 27:9

  And when considerable time had passed and the voyage was already dangerous, because even the Fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,

• Romans 7:1

  Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is master over a person for as long a time as he lives?

• 1 Corinthians 7:39

  A wife is bound for as long a time as her husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 16:7

  For I do not want to see you now in passing, for I hope to stay some time with you, if the Lord permits.

• Galatians 4:1

  Now I say: as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, though he is master of everything,

• Galatians 4:4

  But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

• 1 Thessalonians 5:1

  Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to you.

• 2 Timothy 1:9

  who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in the Messiah Jesus before eternal times,

And 13 more times.