εὔθετος
eúthetos · G2111 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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fit, suitable, usable
Pertaining to being fitting or appropriate, with the probable implication of usable
ExamplesLuke 9:62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Hebrews 6:7 For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God;
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useful, of value
Pertaining to being capable of being put to a useful purpose
ExamplesLuke 14:35 “It is useless either for the soil or the manure pile, so it is thrown out. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὐδείςno one 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- πρέπω prépō · G4241 · to be fitting, to be right
- πρέπω denotes what is fitting, proper, or suitable in a given context, closely paralleling εὔθετος's meaning of appropriateness. Both describe fitness for purpose, though πρέπω often carries moral or social propriety connotations.
Contrasting words 2 words
- ἄχρηστος áchrēstos · G890 · useless, not useful, worthless
- ἄχρηστος (from α-privative + χρηστός 'useful') denotes what is useless or unprofitable, the direct lexical opposite of εὔθετος which denotes what is useful, appropriate, and suitable for its intended purpose.
- ἀνωφελής anōphelḗs · G512 · without advantage, of no special benefit
- ἀνωφελής describes what is useless or without benefit, standing in direct opposition to εὔθετος's meaning of being well-placed, appropriate, and useful for a purpose.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Useful, of value65.32
- In Hebrews 6:7, ground that drinks the rain and “produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God,” describing something of value.
- Fit, suitable, usable66.3
- In Luke 9:62, Jesus says, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God,” describing suitability for a task.
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὔθετον (from εὖ and θετός), Greek writings from Aeschylus and Hippocrates down;…
a. fit: εἰς τί, Lk 9:62 R G; (34) (Diodorus 2, 57, et al.); with the dative of the thing for which: Lk 9:62 L T Tr WH (τῷ πράγματι, Nicolaus Damascenus, Stobaeus, fl. 14, 7 (149, 4)).
b. useful: τίνι, Heb 6:7 (some would make the dative here depend on the participle); (of time, seasonable, Ps 31:6; Susanna, 15).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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