Strong's #5486: charisma (pronounced khar'-is-mah)
from 5483; a (divine) gratuity, i.e. deliverance (from danger or passion); (specially), a (spiritual) endowment, i.e. (subjectively) religious qualification, or (objectively) miraculous faculty:--(free) gift.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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charisma
1) a favour with which one receives without any merit of his own
2) the gift of divine grace
3) the gift of faith, knowledge, holiness, virtue
4) the economy of divine grace, by which the pardon of sin and eternal salvation is appointed to sinners in consideration of the merits of Christ laid hold of by faith
5) grace or gifts denoting extraordinary powers, distinguishing certain Christians and enabling them to serve the church of Christ, the reception of which is due to the power of divine grace operating on their souls by the Holy Spirit
Part of Speech: noun neuter
Relation: from G5483
Citing in TDNT: 9:402, 1298
Usage:
This word is used 17 times:
Romans 1:11: "unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;"
Romans 5:15: "so also is the free gift. For if through the offense"
Romans 5:16: "to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses"
Romans 6:23: "is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through"
Romans 11:29: "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance."
Romans 12:6: "Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given"
1 Corinthians 1:7: "ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming"
1 Corinthians 7:7: "But every man hath his proper gift of God, one"
1 Corinthians 12:4: "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit."
1 Corinthians 12:9: "Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same"
1 Corinthians 12:28: "teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments,"
1 Corinthians 12:30: "Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak"
1 Corinthians 12:31: "covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I unto you"
2 Corinthians 1:11: "for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many"
1 Timothy 4:14: "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given"
2 Timothy 1:6: "Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God,"
1 Peter 4:10: "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another,"
