Lexicon eucharistia: thankfulness, giving of thanks Original Word: εὐχαριστία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: eucharistia Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-khar-is-tee'-ah) Short Definition: thankfulness, gratitude Definition: thankfulness, gratitude; giving of thanks, thanksgiving. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2169 euxaristía (from 2170/euxáristos, "thankful for God's grace") – properly, thankfulness (thanksgiving) – literally, "the giving of thanks for God's grace." See 2168 (euxaristeō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom eucharistosDefinitionthankfulness, giving of thanks NASB Translationgiving of thanks (3), gratefully* (1), gratitude (2), thankfulness (1), thanks (2), thanksgiving (4), thanksgivings (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2169: εὐχαριστίαεὐχαριστία, εὐχαριστίας, ἡ ( εὐχάριστος, which see); 1. thankfulness: decree of the Byzantines in Demosthenes, p. 256, 19; Polybius 8, 14, 8; Additions to Esther 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 Corinthians 14:16; 2 Corinthians 4:15; Ephesians 5:4 (cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:18); Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; Colossians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:9; 1 Timothy 4:3; Revelation 4:9; Revelation 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 Corinthians 9:11 (τοῦ Θεοῦ, Wis. 16:28); in plural, 2 Corinthians 9:12; 1 Timothy 2:1.
Strong's thankfulness, thanksgiving. From eucharistos; gratitude; actively, grateful language (to God, as an act of worship) -- thankfulness, (giving of) thanks(-giving). see GREEK eucharistos |
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