Lexicon eucharistos: thankful Original Word: εὐχάριστος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: eucharistos Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-khar'-is-tos) Short Definition: thankful, grateful Definition: thankful, grateful. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 2170 euxáristos (from 2095 /eú, "well" and 5483/xarízomai, "grant freely") – properly, thankful for God's grace working out what is (eternally) good; grateful, which literally means "grace-ful (thankful) for God's grace" (what brings His eternal favor). 2170/euxáristos only occurs in Col 3:15. See 2168 (euxaristeō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom eu and charizomaiDefinitionthankful NASB Translationthankful (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2170: εὐχάριστοςεὐχάριστος, ἐυχαριστον ( εὖ and χαρίζομαι), mindful of favors, grateful, thankful: to God, Colossians 3:15 ( Xenophon, Cyril 8, 3, 49; Plutarch; others); pleasing, agreeable (cf. English grateful in its secondary sense): εὐχάριστοι λόγοι, pleasant conversation, Xenophon, Cyril 2, 2, 1; acceptable to others, winning: γυνή εὐχάριστος ἐγείρει ἀνδρί δόξαν, Proverbs 11:16; liberal, beneficent, Diodorus 18, 28.
Strong's thankful. From eu and a derivative of charizomai; well favored, i.e. (by implication) grateful -- thankful. see GREEK eu see GREEK charizomai |
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