- Original: χράομαι - Transliteration: Chraomai - Phonetic: khrah'-om-ahee - Definition: 1. to receive a loan 2. borrow 3. to take for one's use, to use a. to make use of a thing - Origin: middle voice of a primary verb (perhaps rather from G5495 , to handle) - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: Middle voice of a primary verb (perhaps rather from G5495 to handle); to furnish what is needed; (give an oracle graze [touch slightly] light upon etc.) that is (by implication) to employ or (by extension) to act towards one in a given manner: - entreat use. Compare G5531 G5534 . Total KJV Occurrences: 11 • entreated, 1 Act 27:3 • use, 7 1 Corinthians 7:21; 1 Corinthians 7:31; 2 Corinthians 1:17; 2 Corinthians 3:12; 2 Corinthians 13:10; 1 Timothy 1:8; 1 Timothy 5:23 • used, 3 Act 27:17; 1 Corinthians 9:12; 1 Corinthians 9:15