εὐχαριστία
eucharistía · G2169 · Greek · 15 occurrences
Meanings
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thanksgiving, thankfulness
Expressing gratitude for benefits or blessings
ExamplesActs 24:3 we acknowledge this in every way and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.
1 Corinthians 14:16 For otherwise, if you bless God in the spirit only, how will the one who occupies the place of the outsider know to say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not understand what you are saying?
2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, so that grace, having spread to more and more people, will cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- πολύςmany 1
- σόςyour 1
- τίςwho? what?, why? for what reason? 1
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
- κατεργάζομαιto work out, to produce 1
- λέγωto say 1
- περισσεύωto abound, to be left over 1
- ἀνταποδίδωμιto repay 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
8 occurrences in 4 groups
- μετάwith, after 7
- ἐνin 4
- διάthrough 2
- ἐπίon 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To thank, to give thanks33.349
- In Acts 24:3, Paul's accuser Tertullus addresses Felix, “we acknowledge this in every way and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness,” naming the act of expressing gratitude.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὐχαριστίας, ἡ (εὐχάριστος, which see); 1. thankfulness: decree of the Byzantines in…
1. thankfulness: decree of the Byzantines in Demosthenes, p. 256, 19; Polybius 8, 14, 8; Additions to Est 6:4 [Esther 8:218:12d], Fritzsche edition; 2 Macc. 2:27; Sir. 37:11; πρός τινα, Diodorus 17, 59; Josephus, Antiquities 3, 3.
2. the giving of thanks: Acts 24:3; for God's blessings, 1 Cor 14:16; 2 Cor 4:15; Eph 5:4 (cf. 1 Thess 5:18); Phm 4:6; Col 2:7; Col 4:2; 1 Thess 3:9; 1 Tim 4:3; Rev 4:9; Rev 7:12; with the dative of the person to whom thanks are given: τῷ Θεῷ (cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 3; (Buttmann, 180 (156)); Kühner, § 424, 1), 2 Cor 9:11 (τοῦ Θεοῦ, Wis. 16:28); in plural, 2 Cor 9:12; 1 Tim 2:1.
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
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