Lexicon euónumos: of good name, euph. for left Original Word: εὐώνυμος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: euónumos Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-o'-noo-mos) Short Definition: on the left-hand side, left Definition: (lit: well-named, to avoid the evil omen attaching to the left), on the left-hand side, left. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom eu and onomaDefinitionof good name, euph. for left NASB Translationleft (9).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2176: εὐώνυμοςεὐώνυμος, εὐώνυμον ( εὖ and ὄνομα); 1. of good name (Hesiod, Pindar), and of good omen (Plato, polit., p. 302 d.; legg. 6, p. 754 e.); in the latter sense used in taking auguries; but those omens were euphemistically called εὐώνυμα which in fact were regarded as unlucky, i. e. which came from the left, sinister omens (for which a good name was desired); hence, 2. left (so from Aeschylus and Herodotus down): Acts 21:3; Revelation 10:2; ἐξ εὐωνύμων (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 27, 3; § 19 under the word δεξιά; Buttmann, 89 (78)), on the left hand (to the left): Matthew 20:21, 23; Matthew 25:33, 41; Matthew 27:38; Mark 10:37 (R G L), ; .
Strong's on the left. From eu and onoma; properly, well-named (good-omened), i.e. The left (which was the lucky side among the pagan Greeks); neuter as adverbial, at the left hand -- (on the) left. see GREEK eu see GREEK onoma |
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