εὔχρηστος
eúchrēstos · G2173 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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useful, valuable
Pertaining to being of positive or good use
Examples2 Timothy 2:21 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be an implement for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.
2 Timothy 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take along Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.
Philemon 1:11 who previously was useless to you, but now is useful both to you and to me.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὠφέλιμος ōphélimos · G5624 · advantage, benefit, beneficial
- ὠφέλιμος shares the core meaning 'useful, profitable' with εὔχρηστος. Both describe something beneficial or serviceable, though ὠφέλιμος emphasizes the benefit or profit derived, while εὔχρηστος emphasizes ease of use.
Contrasting words 1 word
- ἀνωφελής anōphelḗs · G512 · without advantage, of no special benefit
- ἀνωφελής is the direct lexical opposite of εὔχρηστος, meaning 'useless, unprofitable,' where εὔχρηστος means 'useful.' This is a standard antonym pair in Greek lexicography.
In the other Testament 1 word
- יַעַל yaʻal · H3276 · to benefit, to be of value, to profit
- The Hiphil of יָעַל means 'to be profitable, useful, beneficial,' closely matching the semantic field of εὔχρηστος as 'useful.' This is a natural translation equivalent for expressing utility or serviceability.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Useful, valuable65.31
- In 2 Timothy 4:11, Paul writes, “Only Luke is with me. Take along Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service,” using this word for something genuinely useful and valuable.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εὔχρηστον (εὖ and χράομαι), easy to make use of, useful: with the dative of person 2 Tim…
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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