noun · masculine
euergetos
Strong’sG2110
a benefactor
stem euerget-once in the New Testament1 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.
** εὐεργέτης, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX: Es 8:13, Wi 19:14, II Mac 4:2, III Mac 3:19 6:24 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2110 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(Thess. εὐϝεργέτας Refs 5th c.BC+, ου, ὁ, benefactor, Refs 5th c.BC+; τινι to one, Refs 5th c.BC+: more commonly with genitive, τῆς γῆς Refs 5th c.BC+
2 as an honorary title, εὐ. βασιλέος ἀνεγράφη was registered as the King's benefactor, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρόξεινος καὶ εὐ. NT+5th c.BC+: conferred on kings and emperors, as Antigonus, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὁ παντὸς κόσμου σωτὴρ καὶ εὐ, of Trajan, Refs; σὺ ὁ εὐ., mode of address to a superior, Refs 1st c.AD+
II as adjective, beneficent, bountiful, ἀνήρ 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.
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 | euergetos | euergetois1×εὐεργέται |
| object accusative | euergeton | euergetoin |
| direct address vocative | euergetor | euergetoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | euergetou | euergetoiu |
| to, for dative | euergeto | euergetoi |
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
euergeto 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.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
euergetois“benefactors”subjectnominative plural1×
Luke 22:25… kurieualō auteiu kai tois exousiazarōntois auteiu euergetois kalolō.… in authority over them call themselves benefactors.