noun · feminine
euergesias
Strong’sG2108
good action, kind service
stem euergesi-2 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.
εὐεργεσία, -ας, ἡ
(< εὐεργέτης), [in LXX: Ps 77 (78):11 (עֲלִילָה), Wi 16:11, 24, II Mac 6:13 9:26, IV Mac 8:17 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2108 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidyoo-erg-es-ee'-ah
beneficence (genitive case or specially)
Fromfrom G2110;
King Jamesbenefit, good deed done.
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
Ionic dialect εὐεργ-εσίη, ἡ, well-doing, opposed to κακοεργίη, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to κακότης, Refs 6th c.BC+
II a good deed, kindness, εὐεργεσίας ἀποτίνειν Refs 8th c.BC+; ἡ ἐξ Ἱστιαίου εὐ. done by him, Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐεργεσίας ἀποδέξασθαι ἔς τιναςRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀντ᾽ εὐεργεσίης for service done, Refs 5th c.BC+ good service done the state, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, public services, τὰς τῶν προγόνων εὐεργεσίας Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ψηφίζεσθαί [τινι] εὐεργεσίαν to vote him the title of εὐεργέτης (which see), Refs 5th c.BC+
III Εὐεργεσία, personified, = Latin Refs 2nd c.AD+
III.2 epithet of Hera at Argos, Refs 5th c.AD+
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.
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 | euergesias | euergesiais |
| object accusative | euergesian | euergesiain |
| direct address vocative | euergesiar | euergesiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | euergesiau1×εὐεργεσίας | euergesiaiu |
| to, for dative | euergesia1×εὐεργεσίᾳ | euergesiai |
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
euergesia 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
euergesiau“service”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Timothy 6:2… pistois alō kai agapētois tois tau euergesiau antilaborōntois. Houteim didaskasōr kai parakalasōr.… more, since those receiving their good service are beloved believers. Teach and encourage …
euergesia“good deed”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 4:9“good deed”ei nis sēmeron anakrinonō epi euergesia anthrōpou asthenou, en tine houtos sōzotē,If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,