noun · feminine
eukairias
Strong’sG2120
a convenient time, opportunity
stem eukairi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
εὐκαιρία, -ας, ἡ
(< εὔκαιρος), [in LXX: Ps 9:10 (v. Soph., Lex., s.v.) 9:22 (10:1) 144 (145):15 (עֵת), Si 38:24, I Mac 11:42 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2120 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidyoo-kahee-ree'-ah
a favorable occasion
Fromfrom G2121;
King Jamesopportunity.
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 -ιη, ἡ, good season, opportunity, τὴν εὐ. διαφυλάττειν Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπολαύειν τῆς εὐ. Refs 1st c.BC+; εὐκαιρίαν ζητεῖν ἵνα.. NT; εὐ. τοῦ ἐλθεῖν Refs 2nd c.AD+; leisure, Refs 5th c.BC+—a usage condemned by Refs 9th c.AD+
II appropriateness, opposed to ἀκαιρία, Refs 5th c.BC+; μεταφορᾶς, στίχων, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 convenient situation, τῶν πόλεων Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.3 opportune supply, ὑδάτων, of rainfall or irrigation, Refs 4th c.BC+
III wealth, prosperity, αἱ τῶν βίων εὐ. Refs 2nd c.BC+; εὐ. οὐκ ἔχει he has no property, Refs 1st 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 | eukairias | eukairiais |
| object accusative | eukairian2×εὐκαιρίαν | eukairiain |
| direct address vocative | eukairiar | eukairiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | eukairiau | eukairiaiu |
| to, for dative | eukairia | eukairiai |
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
eukairia 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
eukairian“opportunity”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 26:16kai apo tote zētate eukairian hina auton paradōateia.… then on Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus.
Luke 22:6kai exomologata, kai zētate eukairian teu paradōara auton ater ochlou autoi.… and began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus to them in …