εὐπορία
euporía · G2142 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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prosperity
The result of having acquired wealth
ExamplesActs 19:25 he gathered these men together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.
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good business, easy way of making a living
An easy means of gaining a profit from one’s business or trade
ExamplesActs 19:25 he gathered these men together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.
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 it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐργασίαgain, business 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 2 words
- πλοῦτος ploûtos · G4149 · wealth, riches, abundance
- Standard Greek term for wealth and riches, broadly synonymous with εὐπορία as material resources, though πλοῦτος emphasizes abundance while εὐπορία emphasizes availability of means
- χρῆμα chrēma · G5536 · riches, wealth, abundance
- Greek term for money and pecuniary resources, often used in plural (χρήματα) for material wealth, closely overlapping with εὐπορία's sense of financial means
Contrasting words 1 word
- πτωχεία ptōcheía · G4432 · poverty, destitution
- Lexical opposite denoting destitution and lack of material resources, contrasting with εὐπορία's sense of financial means
In the other Testament 2 words
- הוֹן hôwn · H1952 · wealth, enough
- Hebrew noun for wealth/resources, standard translation equivalent for material prosperity and pecuniary means
- עֹשֶׁר ʻôsher · H6239 · wealth, riches
- Common Hebrew term for wealth and riches, functionally equivalent to εὐπορία in contexts referring to material resources
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Good business, easy way of making a living57.201
- In Acts 19:25, Demetrius the silversmith tells the craftsmen, “our prosperity depends upon this business,” naming the profitable trade itself.
- Prosperity57.32
- In Acts 19:25, the same statement about the idol-shrine trade also names the general state of financial prosperity the craftsmen enjoyed through it.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐυποριας, ἡ (εὔπορος, see the preceding word), riches, means, wealth: Acts 19:25.…
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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