Definition

to grant as a favor, i.e. gratuitously, in kindness, pardon or rescue

Etymology

middle voice from G5485 (χάρις);

Word family

• χάρις cháris

How the KJV renders it

• deliver
• (frankly) forgive
• (freely) give
• grant

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.