noun · feminine
eunoias
Strong’sG2133
good-will
stem eunoi-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.
εὔνοια, -ας, ἡ
(< εὔνοος), [in LXX: Es 2:23, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2133 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidyoo'-noy-ah
kindness; euphemistically, conjugal duty
Fromfrom the same as G2132;
King Jamesbenevolence, good will.
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 εὐνοίη (εὔνοιαν is falsa lectio in Refs 5th c.BC+, poetry εὐνοΐη Refs: (εὔνους):— goodwill, favour (distinct from φιλία, Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐνοίας ἕνεκα Docum. cited in Refs 4th c.BC+; κατ᾽ εὔνοιαν κρίνειν partially, NT+5th c.BC+; εὐνοίᾳ τῇ σῇ for the love of you, Refs 5th c.BC+ for love of fatherland, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἕνεκα τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων εὐνοίας goodwill towards them, Refs 5th c.BC+; [εὔνοιαν] ἔχειν εἴς τινα Docum. cited in Refs 5th c.BC+; εὔ. παρὰ τῶν θεῶν Refs 5th c.BC+; εὔνοιαν παρασχεῖν to show favour, Refs 5th c.BC+; εὔνοιαν ἔχειν to wish heartily that.., Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, impulses of kindness, favours, τοῖς ἥσσοσιν γὰρ πᾶς τις εὐνοίας φέρει Refs 5th c.BC+; but, acts of kindness, favours, Refs 1st c.BC+
II gift or present in token of goodwill, Refs 4th c.BC+: plural, benevolences, Refs 2nd 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 | eunoias | eunoiais |
| object accusative | eunoian | eunoiain |
| direct address vocative | eunoiar | eunoiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | eunoiau1×εὐνοίας | eunoiaiu |
| to, for dative | eunoia | eunoiai |
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
eunoia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
eunoiau“goodwill”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Ephesians 6:7“goodwill”meta eunoiau douleuarōntois, hōs to kurio kai ouk …Serve with good will, as to the Lord and not to men,