εὐδοκία
pleasure
‘pleasure’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
3 distinct verses where G2107 appears in the Nominative case, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
Romans 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ευδοκια (eudokía) means “pleasure.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 11:26. With 9 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ευ, ευαγγελιζω and ευαρεστος. Dig into 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2107 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 2 verses 22%
- Ephesians 2 verses 22%
- Philippians 2 verses 22%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 67%
- Gospels 3 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 22%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Good pleasure 4×, Good 2×, Good will 2×
- American Standard Version: Good pleasure 3×, Well-pleasing 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Desire 2×, Good pleasure 2×, Well-pleasing 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Good pleasure 5×, Well pleasing 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2107 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2107 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2107 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2107 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- will, choice
- delight, pleasure, satisfaction
- desire
Word origin
Derived from ευ (eû) (G2095) — to prosper.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2107 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εὐδοκίαν eudokían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 1:5 | 4 |
| εὐδοκία eudokía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 11:26 | 3 |
| εὐδοκίας eudokías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 2:14 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2107, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ευαγγελιζω euangelízō G2097 to evangelize
- ευαρεστος euárestos G2101 pleasing
- ευγενης eugenḗs G2104 noble
- ευδια eudía G2105 fair weather
- ευδοκεω eudokéō G2106 to be pleased
- ευεργετης euergétēs G2110 benefactor
- ευθετος eúthetos G2111 well situated
- ευθυμος eúthymos G2115 courageous
- ευθυς euthýs G2117 straight
- ευκαιρος eúkairos G2121 opportune
- ευκοπωτερος eukopṓteros G2123 easy
- ευλαβης eulabḗs G2126 devout
- ευλογεω eulogéō G2127 to praise
- ευμεταδοτος eumetádotos G2130 generous
- ευνοεω eunoéō G2132 to wish well
- ευοδοω euodóō G2137 to prosper
- ευπειθης eupeithḗs G2138 obedient
- ευπεριστατος euperístatos G2139 besetting
- ευποιΐα eupoiḯa G2140 doing good
- ευπρεπεια euprépeia G2143 beauty
- ευπροσδεκτος euprósdektos G2144 acceptable
- ευπροσεδρος euprósedros G2145 devoted
- ευπροσωπεω euprosōpéō G2146 to please
- ευσεβης eusebḗs G2152 pious
+13 more words share this root (not shown).
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 42 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ευδοκια appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 3 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 16:10 εὐδοκία
- Psalms 5:13 εὐδοκία
- Song of Solomon 6:4 εὐδοκία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2107) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Chronicles 16:10 εὐδοκία Glory you in his holy name; Let the heart of them rejoice who seek Yahweh.
- Psalms 5:13 εὐδοκία
- Psalms 18:15 εὐδοκία Then the channels of waters appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
- Psalms 50:20 εὐδοκία You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
- Psalms 68:14 εὐδοκία When the Almighty scattered kings in her, It snowed on Zalmon.
- Psalms 88:18 εὐδοκία You have put lover and friend far from me, And my friends into darkness.
- Psalms 105:4 εὐδοκία Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
- Psalms 140:5 εὐδοκία The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
- Psalms 144:16 εὐδοκία
- Song of Solomon 6:4 εὐδοκία You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, Lovely as Jerusalem, Awesome as an army with banners.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2107) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
