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εὔκαιρος

eúkairos · G2121 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. favorable, good

    Pertaining to being a favorable occasion for some event

    Examples

    Mark 6:21 An opportune day came when Herod, on his birthday, held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders, and the leading people of Galilee;

    Hebrews 4:16 Therefore let’s approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for help at the time of our need.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Favorable, good67.6
In Mark 6:21, it is written, “An opportune day came when Herod, on his birthday, held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders,” describing a fitting, favorable time.
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

καιρός kairós · G2540 · time, occasion, period of time · 86×πρόσκαιρος próskairos · G4340 · not long, temporary, for a little while · 4×εὐκαιρέω eukairéō · G2119 · to have an appropriate time for, to have an occasion to, to have a chance to · 3×εὐκαιρία eukairía · G2120 · opportunity, good occasion, favorable time · 2×εὔκαιροςeúkairos · G2121εὐκαίρως eukaírōs · G2122 · favorable, good · 2×ἀκαιρέομαι akairéomai · G170 · to lack an opportunity, to have no chance to · 1×ἀκαίρως akaírōs · G171 · unfavorable, when the time is not right · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὔκαιρον (εὖ and καιρός), seasonable, timely, opportune: βοήθεια, Heb 4:16; ἡμέρας…
εὔκαιρον (εὖ and καιρός), seasonable, timely, opportune: βοήθεια, Heb 4:16; ἡμέρας εὐκαίρου, a convenient day, Mk 6:21. (2 Macc. 14:29; (Psalm 103:27; Sophocles O. C. 32); Theophrastus, Polybius, others.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
A Point of Time without Reference to Other Points of Time: Time, Occasion, Ever, Often2 occurrences

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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