Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.joy, delight, first in Sapph.Supp.1.6, then in Trag. and (less freq.) in Com. and Prose: c. gen., στόματος ἐν πρώτῃ χ., of a hungry man, A.Fr.258; c. gen. objecti, joy in or at a thing, “μελέων” E.Alc.579 (lyr.); πρὸς χαρὰν λόγων in accordance with joyous tidings, S.Tr.179 (v.l. χάριν）; κέρτομος θεοῦ χ. a joy sent by some mocking god, E.Alc.1125; “ἅμα χαρᾷ δακρυούσας” X. HG7.2.9; “χ. ἐπί τινι” Pl.Def.413e; “ἔδωκας ἡμῖν χ.” S.Tr.201; “ἐλάβομεν χ.” E.Ion1449 (lyr.); “ἐμπλῆσαί τινα χαρᾶς” Id.Ph.170; “χαρά μ᾽ ὑφέρπει” A.Ag.270; λέγεις μοι χαράν wishest me joy, Ar.Pl.637 (lyr.); “χ. ἐνεργάσασθαι” Gorg.Hel.8; “χαίρειν ἀνδραπόδων τινὰ χαράν” Plu.2.1091e, cf. Ev.Matt.2.10; “ἡδονὴ καὶ τέρψις καὶ χ.” Pl.Phlb.19; “ἀπορέουσι . . χαρᾶς” Democr.293, cf. Epicur.Fr.2; “ζήλου καὶ χαρᾶς καὶ ἐπαίνων ἡ πόλις ἦν μεστή” D.18.217; “εἴσελθε εἰς τήν χ. τοῦ Κυρίου σου” Ev.Matt.25.21: “χαρᾷ” with joy, A.Ag.1630, Ch.233, etc.; “μετὰ χαρᾶς” Com.Adesp.771, X.Hier.1.25, LXX 1 Ch.29.22, al.; “μετὰ μεγάλης χ.” Plb.21.34.12 (s.v.l.); “μετὰ πολλῆς χ.” BGU1141.3 (i B. C.), cf. 1768.7 (i B. C.); “χαρᾶς ὕπο” A.Ag.541; “ὑπὸ χ.” X.Cyn.6.15; “σὺν χαρᾷ” S.El.934, etc.; opp. λύπη, Sor.1.46, al.

II. in concrete sense, a joy, of persons, “χ. μου” Ep.Phil.4.1, cf. 1 Ep.Thess.2.20.