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Word

εὐκαίρως

eukaírōs · G2122 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. favorable, good

    Pertaining to being a favorable occasion for some event

    Examples

    Mark 14:11 They were delighted when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.

    2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort, with great patience and instruction.

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 2 Timothy 4:2, Timothy is charged, “preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and exhort, with great patience,” using this adverb for acting at a 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×εὔκαιρος eúkairos · G2121 · favorable, good · 2×εὐκαίρωςeukaírōs · G2122ἀκαιρέομαι 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 adverb, seasonably, opportunely; when the opportunity occurs: Mk 14:11; opposed to…
adverb, seasonably, opportunely; when the opportunity occurs: Mk 14:11; opposed to ἀκαίρως (which see), 2 Tim 4:2. (Xenophon, Ages. 8, 3; Plato and following; Sir. 18:22.)

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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