εὐχαριστέω
to give thanks
‘to give thanks’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms 13 distinct
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular 10 times (26%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 8 times (21%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 4 times (11%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 3 times (8%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (5%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (5%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 2 times (5%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (5%)
+5 more forms (5 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 38 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2168 appears — 37 distinct verses across 15 books. 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 2 verses
- Matthew 15:36 εὐχαριστήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
- Matthew 26:27 εὐχαριστήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of you drink it,
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 8:6 εὐχαριστήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
- Mark 14:23 εὐχαριστήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.
Luke 4 verses
- Luke 17:16 εὐχαριστῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
- Luke 18:11 εὐχαριστῶ pres act ind 1sg The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
- Luke 22:17 εὐχαριστήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves,
- Luke 22:19 εὐχαριστήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."
John 3 verses
- John 6:11 εὐχαρίστησεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
- John 6:23 εὐχαριστήταντος aor act ptcp gen sg masc However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
- John 11:41 εὐχαριστῶ pres act ind 1sg So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 27:35 εὐχαρίστησεν aor act ind 3sg When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.
- Acts 28:15 εὐχαριστήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God, and took courage.
Romans 4 verses
- Romans 1:8 εὐχαριστῶ pres act ind 1sg First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
- Romans 1:21 ηὐχαρίστησαν aor act ind 3pl Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- Romans 14:6 εὐχαριστεῖ εὐχαριστεῖ pres act ind 3sg pres act ind 3sg He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.
- Romans 16:4 εὐχαριστῶ pres act ind 1sg who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
1 Corinthians 6 verses
- 1 Corinthians 1:4 Εὐχαριστῶ pres act ind 1sg I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
- 1 Corinthians 1:14 εὐχαριστῶ pres act ind 1sg I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,
- 1 Corinthians 10:30 εὐχαριστῶ pres act ind 1sg If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?
- 1 Corinthians 11:24 εὐχαριστήσας aor act ptcp nom sg masc When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me."
- 1 Corinthians 14:17 εὐχαριστεῖς pres act ind 2sg For you most assuredly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
- 1 Corinthians 14:18 εὐχαριστῶ pres act ind 1sg I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
2 Corinthians 1 verse
Ephesians 2 verses
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 3 verses
- Colossians 1:3 Εὐχαριστοῦμεν pres act ind 1pl We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
- Colossians 1:12 εὐχαριστοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
- Colossians 3:17 εὐχαριστοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
1 Thessalonians 3 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 1:2 Εὐχαριστοῦμεν pres act ind 1pl We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
- 1 Thessalonians 2:13 εὐχαριστοῦμεν pres act ind 1pl For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18 εὐχαριστεῖτε pres act impv 2pl In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
2 Thessalonians 2 verses
- 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Εὐχαριστεῖν pres act inf We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 εὐχαριστεῖν pres act inf But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
Philemon 1 verse
Revelation 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.
“to give thanks” is the headline sense of the Greek verb ευχαριστεω (eucharistéō). Translators differ — “i thank” in the King James Version, then “having given thanks” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 37 verses in 15 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. First canonically at Matthew 15:36, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 37-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2168 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 →
- 37
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 37 distinct verses.
- 15 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
- #392
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 392 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 37 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 6 verses 16%
- Luke 4 verses 11%
- Romans 4 verses 11%
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 37 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 23 verses · 62%
- Gospels 11 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 16%
- Johannine 4 verses · 11%
- Revelation 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: I thank 9×, Gave thanks 6×, Give thanks 5×
- American Standard Version: I thank 8×, Give thanks 6×, He had given thanks 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gave thanks 9×, I thank 6×, Giving thanks 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having given thanks 8×, Give thanks 7×, I thank 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2168 across 41 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G2168 across 43 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 G2168 across 38 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 G2168 across 45 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 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 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.
- to be grateful, feel thankful
- give thanks
Word origin
Derived from ευχαριστος (eucháristos) (G2170) — grateful.
From G2170 ; to be grateful that is (actually) to express gratitude (towards); specifically to say grace at a meal : - (give) thank (-ful -s).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 17 distinct written forms G2168 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2168, 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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