χᾰρά, ἡ:
(χαίρω):— joy, delight, first in [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 1.6, then in Trag. and (less frequently) in Comedy texts and Prose: with _genitive_, στόματος ἐν πρώτῃ χ.,] Refs 7th c.BC+] of a hungry man, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 258 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; with genitive objecti, joy in or at a thing, μελέων [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 579 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς χαρὰν λόγων in accordance with joyous tidings, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 179 (variant{χάριν})] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κέρτομος θεοῦ χ. a joy sent by some mocking god, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1125; ἅμα χαρᾷ δακρυούσας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.2.9; χ. ἐπί τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 413e; ἔδωκας ἡμῖν χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 201; ἐλάβομεν χ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1449 (Lyric poetry); ἐμπλῆσαί τινα χαρᾶς [prev. author] “Ph.” 170; χαρά μ᾽ ὑφέρπει 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 270 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λέγεις μοι χαράν wishest me joy, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 637 (Lyric poetry); χ. ἐνεργάσασθαι 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “Hel.” 8; χαίρειν ἀνδραπόδων τινὰ χαράν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1091e, cf. NT.Matt.2.10; ἡδονὴ καὶ τέρψις καὶ χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 19; ἀπορέουσι.. χαρᾶς 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 293, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 2; ζήλου καὶ χαρᾶς καὶ ἐπαίνων ἡ πόλις ἦν μεστή 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.217; εἴσελθε εἰς τήν χ. τοῦ Κυρίου σου NT.Matt.25.21: χαρᾷ ] NT+5th c.BC+]with joy, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1630, “Ch.” 233, etc.; μετὰ χαρᾶς “Comica Adespota” 771, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.25, LXX.1Ch.29.22, +others; μετὰ μεγάλης χ. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.34.12 (assuming variant); μετὰ πολλῆς χ. “BGU” 1141.3 (1st c.BC), compare 1768.7 (1st c.BC)] LXX+5th c.BC+]; χαρᾶς ὕπο [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 541; ὑπὸ χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.15; σὺν χαρᾷ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 934, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to λύπη, [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.46, +others ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]