εὐεργετέω
euergetéō · G2109 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to do good
To do that which is good and beneficial to someone
ExamplesActs 10:38 “You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
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
- ἀγαθοεργέω agathoergéō · G14 · to do good, to perform good deeds, good works
- The target term and ἀγαθοεργέω (“to work good”) both denote performing beneficial actions toward others, one meaning “to do good” and the other “to work good” — closely adjacent expressions of the same moral-action concept of doing good deeds.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Good deed88.7
- In Acts 10:38, it is said of Jesus that God anointed Him, “and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil,” describing His acts of kindness.
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐυεργέτω; (εὐεργέτης), to do good, bestow benefits: Acts 10:38. (the Sept.; often in…
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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