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εὐλογέω

to praise

‘to praise’ is one of 5 main senses fuller range ↓

G2127 Strong's Greek
eulogéō Transliteration
/yoo-log-eh'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 41 appearances

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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, ευλογεω (eulogéō) means “to praise.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “blessed” in the King James Version, “blessed is” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 38 verses across 12 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. The word gravitates to Luke (29%), then Mark and Hebrews. Ranging over 5 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Dig into 38-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
bless
Modern gloss
to praise
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 G2127 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 →

38
distinct verses
The word appears in 38 distinct verses.
12 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 14:19
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 14:19.
1 Peter 3:9
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 1 Peter 3:9.
#364
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 364 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 38 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 23 · 61%
  • Acts 1 · 3%
  • Pauline Epistles 6 · 16%
  • General Epistles 8 · 21%
  • 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 38 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 23 verses · 61%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 12 verses · 32%
  • Pauline corpus 6 verses · 16%
  • Hebrews 6 verses · 16%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 5%
  • Johannine 1 verse · 3%

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: Blessed 23×, Bless 5×, Blessing 3×
  • American Standard Version: Blessed 18×, Bless 4×, Blessing 4×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Blessed 12×, Blessed is 6×, Bless 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Blessed is 7×, Blessed 6×, Bless 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2127 across 44 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Blessed” 23×
  • “Bless” 5×
  • “Blessing” 3×
  • “He blessed” 3×
  • “We bless” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2127 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Blessed” 18×
  • “Bless” 4×
  • “Blessing” 4×
  • “He blessed” 3×
  • “Hath blessed” 2×
  • “We bless” 2×

Plus 12 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 G2127 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Blessed” 12×
  • “Blessed is” 6×
  • “Bless” 5×
  • “Spoke a blessing” 5×
  • “We bless” 3×
  • “Praising” 2×

Plus 8 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 G2127 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Blessed is” 7×
  • “Blessed” 6×
  • “Bless” 5×
  • “He blessed” 5×
  • “Blessing” 4×
  • “Having blessed” 4×
  • “We bless” 3×
  • “I will” 2×

Plus 9 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 5 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. to praise, celebrate with praises
  2. to invoke blessings
  3. to consecrate a thing with solemn prayers
  4. to cause to prosper, to make happy, to bestow blessings on
  5. favoured of God, blessed

Word origin

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

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 14:34,3

From a compound of G2095 and G3056 ; to speak well of that is (religiously) to bless ( thank or invoke a benediction upon prosper ): - bless praise.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 17 distinct written forms G2127 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
εὐλόγησεν eulógēsen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 14:19 9
εὐλογημένος eulogēménos Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 21:9 7
εὐλογήσας eulogḗsas Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 26:26 5
εὐλογεῖτε eulogeîte Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 6:28 3
εὐλογοῦμεν eulogoûmen Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 1 Corinthians 4:12 3
εὐλογημένη eulogēménē Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Mark 11:10 2
εὐλογῶν eulogō̂n Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 1:64 2
εὐλογήσω eulogḗsō Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Hebrews 6:14 1
εὐλογεῖν eulogeîn Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Luke 24:51 1
εὐλογεῖται eulogeîtai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 7:7 1
εὐλογημένοι eulogēménoi Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 25:34 1
εὐλογοῦντα eulogoûnta Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Acts 3:26 1
εὐλογοῦνται eulogoûntai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Galatians 3:9 1
εὐλογοῦντες eulogoûntes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 Peter 3:9 1
εὐλογῇς eulogē̂s Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 14:16 1
εὐλόγηκεν eulógēken Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Hebrews 7:6 1
κατευλόγει kateulógei Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 10:16 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2127, 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

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Proper names from this root

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word ευλογεω appears 329 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 287 verses in 23 books.

329
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
287
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
23 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 23 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2127) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 287. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2127) 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.

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