εὐχαριστία
thanksgiving
‘thanksgiving’ is one of 2 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.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 4 times (27%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 4 times (27%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 3 times (20%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (13%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (7%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine 1 time (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 15 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2169 appears — 15 distinct verses across 9 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.
Acts 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 4:15 εὐχαριστίαν n acc sg fem For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
- 2 Corinthians 9:11 εὐχαριστίαν n acc sg fem you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.
- 2 Corinthians 9:12 εὐχαριστιῶν n gen pl fem For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;
Ephesians 1 verse
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 2 verses
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Timothy 3 verses
- 1 Timothy 2:1 εὐχαριστίας n acc pl fem I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
- 1 Timothy 4:3 εὐχαριστίας n gen sg fem forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
- 1 Timothy 4:4 εὐχαριστίας n gen sg fem For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 4:9 εὐχαριστίαν n acc sg fem When the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, to him who lives forever and ever,
- Revelation 7:12 εὐχαριστία n nom sg fem saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen."
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.
“thanksgiving” is the headline sense of the Greek noun ευχαριστια (eucharistía). First canonically at Acts 24:3, it enters the text early. It turns up in 15 verses across 9 books, an uncommon footprint. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. From the same root come ευχαριστος and ευχαριστεω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2169 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 →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 3 verses 20%
- 1 Timothy 3 verses 20%
- Colossians 2 verses 13%
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 15 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 12 verses · 80%
- Johannine 2 verses · 13%
- Revelation 2 verses · 13%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 7%
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: Thanksgiving 8×, Giving of thanks 3×, Thanks 2×
- American Standard Version: Thanksgiving 8×, Giving of thanks 2×, Thanksgivings 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Thanksgiving 7×, Thanks 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Thanksgiving 9×, Thanks 3×, Thanksgivings 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2169 across 15 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2169 across 15 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2169 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2169 across 15 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.
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.
- thankfulness
- the giving of thanks
Word origin
Derived from ευχαριστος (eucháristos) (G2170) — grateful.
From G2170 ; gratitude ; actually grateful language (to God as an act of worship): - thankfulness (giving of) thanks (-giving).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G2169 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εὐχαριστίας eucharistías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 24:3 | 5 |
| εὐχαριστίαν eucharistían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 4:15 | 4 |
| εὐχαριστίᾳ eucharistía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 14:16 | 3 |
| εὐχαριστία eucharistía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 5:4 | 2 |
| εὐχαριστιῶν eucharistiō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 9:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2169, 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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