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Lexicon :: Strong's G2137 - euodoō

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εὐοδόω
Transliteration
euodoō (Key)
Pronunciation
yoo-od-o'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a compound of εὖ (G2095) and ὁδός (G3598)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:109,666

Strong’s Definitions

εὐοδόω euodóō, yoo-od-o'-o; from a compound of G2095 and G3598; to help on the road, i.e. (passively) succeed in reaching; figuratively, to succeed in business affairs:—(have a) prosper(-ous journey).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G2137 in the following manner: prosper (3x), have a prosperous journey (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G2137 in the following manner: prosper (3x), have a prosperous journey (1x).

  1. to grant a prosperous and expeditious journey, to lead by a direct and easy way

  2. to grant a successful issue, to cause to prosper

  3. to prosper, be successful

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
εὐοδόω euodóō, yoo-od-o'-o; from a compound of G2095 and G3598; to help on the road, i.e. (passively) succeed in reaching; figuratively, to succeed in business affairs:—(have a) prosper(-ous journey).
STRONGS G2137:
εὐοδόω, -ῶ: [passive, present ἐυοδοῦμαι; future εὐοδωθήσομαι; 1 aorist subjunctive εὐοδώθῇ, 1 Corinthians 16:2 WH marginal reading who regard the εὐοδῶται of the text here as perfect (either indicative or subjunctive) see their Appendix, p. 172]; (εὔοδος); Sept. principally for צָלַח and הִצְלִיחַ; to grant a prosperous and expeditious journey, to lead by a direct and easy way: Genesis 24:48: much more frequent tropically, to grant a successful issue, to cause to prosper: τί, as τὴν ὁδόν τινος, Genesis 24:21, 40; Isaiah 55:11, etc.; τὰ ἔργα τινός, Wis. 11:1; in the passive always tropically, to prosper, be successful: of persons, Joshua 1:8; Proverbs 28:13; 2 Chronicles 13:12; 2 Chronicles 18:11, etc.; 3 John 1:2; εἴπως εὐοδωθήσομαι ἐλθεῖν if haply I shall be so fortunate as to come, Romans 1:10; of things: 2 Esdr. 5:8; Tobit 4:19; 1 Macc. 3:6, etc.; τῷ Κλεομενεϊ εὐωδώθη τὸ πρῆγμα, Herodotus 6, 73; ὅ, τι ἄν εὐοδῶται [see above, at the beginning] whatever (business) has prospered, i. e. (contextually) its gains, 1 Corinthians 16:2.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
24:21; 24:40; 24:48
Joshua
1:8
2 Chronicles
13:12; 18:11
Proverbs
28:13
Isaiah
55:11
Romans
1:10
1 Corinthians
16:2; 16:2
3 John
1:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2137 matches the Greek εὐοδόω (euodoō),
which occurs 42 times in 41 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:12 - And he said, “O LORD, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:21 - The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the LORD had prospered his journey or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - and said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master’s kinsmen.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40 - But he said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:42 - “I came today to the spring and said, ‘O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:48 - Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way[fn] to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:56

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:56 - But he said to them, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:3 - His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:23 - The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:29 - and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[fn] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:8 - This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:8 - Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:12 - And all the prophets prophesied so and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:15 - And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?” And he answered him, “Go up and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2 - And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you and from the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasturelands, that they may be gathered to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:11 - “Now, my son, the LORD be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken concerning you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:13 - Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 7:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:11 - Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he successfully accomplished.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:12 - Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they built and prospered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:11 - And all the prophets prophesied so and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph. The LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:14 - And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?” And he answered, “Go up and triumph; they will be given into your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:20 - And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:20 - Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:5 - He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:21 - And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:30 - This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:13 - And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:8 - Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 1:11 - O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:20 - Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim[fn] in Jerusalem.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:25 - Save us, we pray, O LORD!
O LORD, we pray, give us success!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:8 - A bribe is like a magic[fn] stone in the eyes of the one who gives it;
wherever he turns he prospers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:13 - Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:11 - calling a bird of prey from the east,
the man of my counsel from a far country.
I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
I have purposed, and I will do it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:15 - I, even I, have spoken and called him;
I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:17 - no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD
and their vindication[fn] from me, declares the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:11 - so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:37 - From it too you will come away
with your hands on your head,
for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust,
and you will not prosper by them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:1 - Righteous are you, O LORD,
when I complain to you;
yet I would plead my case before you.
Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:12 - And a host will be given over to it together with the regular burnt offering because of transgression,[fn] and it will throw truth to the ground, and it will act and prosper.
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