Bible word study

Chrematizo (Strong’s G5537): Meaning in the Bible

Chrematizo (χρηματίζω) is the Greek word numbered G5537 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to utter an oracle (compare the original sense of G5530), i.e. divinely intimate; by implication, (compare the secular sense of G5532) to constitute a firm for business, i.e. (generally) bear as a title. In the King James Bible it is translated be called, be admonished (warned) of God, reveal, speak..

• Original wordχρηματίζω
• Transliterationchrēmatízō
• Pronunciationkhray-mat-id'-zo
• Strong’s numberG5537
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G5536;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Chrematizo appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Chrematizo (G5537) stands behind 9 English renderings in 9 verses across 5 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Hebrews (3), Matthew (2), Acts (2).

How the King James Bible renders Chrematizo, by count

• god5 of 9 (56 percent)
• called2 of 9 (22 percent)
• revealed1 of 9 (11 percent)
• spake1 of 9 (11 percent)

Three places to read Chrematizo

• Matthew 2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
• Acts 10:22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
• Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Chrematizo in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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