δωρεά

dwreav dwreav,
dwrea'",
hJ (
divdwmi); from (Aeschyh and) Herodotus down; a gift: ; ; ; ; ; ;
hJ
cavri"
ejdovqh
katav
tov
mevtron
th'"
dwrea'"
tou'
Cristou', according to the measure in which Christ gave it, ; with an epexegetical genitive of the thing given, viz.
tou'
aJgivou
pneuvmato", ; ;
dikaiosuvnh", (L WH Tr marginal reading brackets
th'"
dwrea'");
th'"
cavrito"
tou'
Qeou', . The accusative
dwreavn (properly, as a gift, gift-wise (cf. Winer's Grammar, 230 (216); Buttmann, 153 (134))) is used adverbially; the Septuagint for !N:ji; a. freely, for naught, gratis, gratuitously: ; ; ; ; ; (Polybius 18, 17, 7; ;
dwreavn
a[neu
ajrgurivou, ). b. by a usage of which as yet no example has been noted from Greek writings, without just cause, unnecessarily: ( (); (); ( (?); () (where Symmachus
ajnaitivw"); so the Latin gratuitus: Livy 2, 42 gratuitus furor, Seneca, epistles 105, 3 (book xviii., epistle 2, sec. 3) odium aut est ex offensa ... aut gratuitum). (Synonym: see
dovma, at the end.)*