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5540 - chrésis

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Strong's Concordance

Original word: χρῆσις
Transliteration: chrésis
Definition (short): function
Definition (full): use (as in a sexual sense)

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from chraomai
Definition: use (as in a sexual sense)
NASB Translation: function (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From chraomai; employment, i.e. (specially), sexual intercourse (as an occupation of the body) -- use.

see GREEK chraomai

References

Strong's 5540: 2 Occurrences
KJV: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
NASB: For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
KJV: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
NASB: and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.