εὐκαιρία
eukairía · G2120 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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opportunity, good occasion, favorable time
A favorable occasion for some event
ExamplesMatthew 26:16 And from then on he looked for a good opportunity to betray Jesus.
Luke 22:6 And so he consented, and began looking for a good opportunity to betray Him to them away from the crowd.
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 done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ζητέωto seek, to look for 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
- ἀφορμή aphormḗ · G874 · favorable circumstances, opportunity, occasion
- The target term εὐκαιρία and ἀφορμή (“a starting-point, an opportunity”) both denote favorable opportunity for action; the target focuses on temporal favorability, while ἀφορμή focuses on favorable circumstances generally and can also extend to a negative sense of pretext or excuse — a real difference within their shared positive sense of opportunity.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Opportunity, good occasion, favorable time67.5
- In Matthew 26:16, after agreeing to betray Jesus, Judas “looked for a good opportunity to betray Jesus,” naming a favorable occasion for acting.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὐκαιρίας, ἡ (εὔκαιρος), seasonable time, opportunity: ζητεῖν εὐκαιρίαν, followed by (ἵνα…
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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