Bible word study

Chronos (Strong’s G5550): Meaning in the Bible

Chronos (χρόνος) is the Greek word numbered G5550 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a space of time (in general, and thus properly distinguished from G2540, which designates a fixed or special occasion; and from G165, which denotes a particular period) or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay. In the King James Bible it is translated + years old, season, space, (X often-)time(-s), (a) while..

• Original wordχρόνος
• Transliterationchrónos
• Pronunciationkhron'-os
• Strong’s numberG5550
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. of uncertain derivation;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Chronos appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Chronos (G5550) stands behind 53 English renderings in 50 verses across 15 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (17), Luke (6), 1 Peter (5).

How the King James Bible renders Chronos, by count

• time28 of 53 (53 percent)
• times4 of 53 (8 percent)
• season3 of 53 (6 percent)
• while3 of 53 (6 percent)
• long2 of 53 (4 percent)
• space2 of 53 (4 percent)

Three places to read Chronos

• Matthew 2:7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
• Acts 1:21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
• 1 Corinthians 16:7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

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 Chronos 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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