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εὔθυμος

courageous

‘courageous’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G2115 Strong's Greek
eúthymos Transliteration
/yoo'-thoo-mos/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

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“courageous” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective ευθυμος (eúthymos). With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Acts, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Acts 24:10. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
of good cheer
Modern gloss
courageous
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2115 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 24:10
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Acts 24:10.
Acts 27:36
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Acts 27:36.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

  • Acts 2 verses 100%

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 2 · 100%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%

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 cheer 1×, More cheerfully 1×
  • American Standard Version: Good cheer 1×, I cheerfully 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Encouraged 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Encouraged 1×, Gladly 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2115 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Good cheer” 1×
  • “More cheerfully” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2115 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Good cheer” 1×
  • “I cheerfully” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2115 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Encouraged” 1×

Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2115 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Encouraged” 1×
  • “Gladly” 1×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 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.

  1. well disposed, kind
  2. of good cheer, of good courage

Word origin

Derived from ευ (eû) (G2095) — to prosper.

Part of speech: Adjective

From G2095 and G2372 ; in fine spirits that is cheerful : - of good cheer the more cheerfully.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G2115 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
εὐθύμως euthýmōs Adverb Acts 24:10 1
εὔθυμοι eúthymoi Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 27:36 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2115, 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.

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