euchas

Strong’sG2171

a prayer, vow

stem euch-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

εὐχή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< εὔχομαι), [in LXX chiefly for נֵדֶר;]

1. a prayer: Ja 5:15.

2. a vow: Ac 18:18 21:23.†

SYN.: v.s. δέησις

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2171 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidyoo-khay'

properly, a wish, expressed as a petition to God, or in votive obligation

Fromfrom G2172;

King Jamesprayer, vow.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

εὐχή, ἡ,
(εὔχομαι) prayer or vow, once in Refs 8th c.BC+; εὐχὴν ἐπιτελέσαι, Latin vota persolvere, Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐχῇ χρῆσθαι, Latin votis potiri, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ χιλίων.. εὐχὴν ποιήσασθαι χιμάρων to make a vow of a thousand goats, Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐχὰς ποιεῖσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; κατ᾽ εὐχήν, ἐξ εὐχῆς, Latin ex voto, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἔχειν εὐχήν to be under a vow, NT
2 wish or aspiration, opposed to reality, εὐχαῖς ὅμοια λέγειν to build 'castles in the air', Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ τὴν τῶν παίδων εὐ. like a boy's wish, Refs; εὐχῆς ἄξια things to be wished, but not expected, Refs 5th c.BC+; πολιτεία ἡ κατ᾽ εὐχὴν γινομένη the ideal state, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 prayer for evil, i.e. curse, imprecation, πατρὸς κατ᾽ εὐχάς Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

vow2×prayer1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	euchas1×εὐχὴ	euchais
object accusative	euchan2×εὐχήν	euchain
direct address vocative	euchar	euchair
of, belonging to genitive	euchau	euchaiu
to, for dative	eucha	euchai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

euchstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

eucha is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

euchomō — εὔχομαι, I pray, wish

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

euchas“prayer”subjectnominative singular1×

James 5:15kai tas euchas tau pistiau sōzati ton kamnarōnton, kai …And the prayer offered in faith will restore the …

euchan“vow”objectaccusative singular2×

Acts 18:18… en Kenchreai tan kefalan, echate gar euchan.… shaved in Cenchrea to keep a vow he had made, and then he …

Acts 21:23… si leganō; alō ni androis tessares euchan echarōntois apo heautoiu.… with us who have taken a vow.