εὐεργεσία
euergesía · G2108 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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good deed
Doing that which is good and beneficial to someone
ExamplesActs 4:9 if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,
1 Timothy 6:2 Those who have believers as their masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers or sisters, but must serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and preach these principles.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄνθρωποςman, person, people 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀντιλαμβάνομαιto help 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπίon 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- εὐποιΐα eupoiḯa · G2140 · good deed
- The target term and εὐποιΐα (“well-doing, beneficence”) share the identical narrow sense “good deed,” both denoting the concept of beneficial action toward others.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Good deed88.7
- In Acts 4:9, Peter and John are asked to account for a good deed, “as to how this man has been made well,” naming the beneficial act performed.
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὐεργεσίας, ἡ (εὐεργέτης); a good deed, benefit: 1 Tim 6:2 (on which see ἀντιλαμβάνω, 2);…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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