{"id":11612,"date":"2024-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=11612"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:59:45","slug":"is-carissa-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/is-carissa-in-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfEst\u00e1 Carissa en la Biblia? No, es una forma de Charissa, del griego para gracia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>No one named Carissa appears in the Bible. Carissa is a spelling of Charissa, a name formed from the Greek charis, &quot;grace.&quot; The poet Edmund Spenser used Charissa in The Faerie Queene (1590) for the figure of Christian charity, and Carissa became common in the United States in the 1970s. What does Carissa mean? Behind the Name treats Carissa as a variant of Charissa, and Charissa as an elaborated form of Charis. Charis is the Greek word for grace, favor\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one named Carissa appears in the Bible. It is a spelling of Charissa, from the Greek charis, &quot;grace,&quot; a word used over 150 times in the New Testament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[221],"class_list":["post-11612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education","series-names-and-their-biblical-meanings"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18991,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/is-the-name-karissa-in-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":11612,"position":0},"title":"Is Karissa in the Bible? No, It Comes From Charis, the Greek Word for Grace","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"enero 21, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"No one named Karissa appears in the Bible. 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