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Lexicon :: Strong's G2172 - euchomai

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εὔχομαι
Transliteration
euchomai (Key)
Pronunciation
yoo'-khom-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Middle voice of a primary verb
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:775,279

Strong’s Definitions

εὔχομαι eúchomai, yoo'-khom-ahee; middle voice of a primary verb; to wish; by implication, to pray to God:—pray, will, wish.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G2172 in the following manner: wish (3x), pray (2x), can wish (1x), I would (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G2172 in the following manner: wish (3x), pray (2x), can wish (1x), I would (1x).

  1. to pray to God

  2. to wish, to pray, to pray for

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
εὔχομαι eúchomai, yoo'-khom-ahee; middle voice of a primary verb; to wish; by implication, to pray to God:—pray, will, wish.
STRONGS G2172:
εὔχομαι; imperfect ηὐχόμην (Romans 9:3) and εὐχόμην (Acts 27:29 T Tr, see εὐδοκέω at the beginning (cf. Veitch, under the word; Tdf. Proleg., p. 121)); (1 aorist middle εὐξάμην Acts 26:29 Tdf., where others read the optative ἐυχαιμην; deponent verb, cf. Winer's Grammar, § 38, 7);
1. to pray to God (the Sept. in this sense for הִתְפַּלֵּל and עָתַר): τῷ Θεῷ (as very often in classical Greek from Homer down (cf. Winers Grammar, 212 (199); Buttmann, 177 (154))), followed by the accusative with an infinitive, Acts 26:29; πρός τόν Θεόν (Xenophon, mem. 1, 3, 2; symp. 4, 55; often in the Sept.), followed by the accusative with infinitive 2 Corinthians 13:7; ὑπέρ with the genitive of person, for one, James 5:16 where L WH text Tr marginal reading προσεύχεσθε (Xenophon, mem. 2, 2, 10). (Synonym: see αἰτέω, at the end)
2. to wish: τί, 2 Corinthians 13:9; followed by the accusative with an infinitive 3 John 1:2 (others, adhere to the religious sense, to pray, pray for, in both the preceding passages); Acts 27:29; ηὐχόμην (on this use of the imperfect cf. Winers Grammar, 283 (266); Buttmann, § 139, 15; (Lightfoot on Philemon 1:13)) εἶναι, I could wish to be, Romans 9:3. (Compare: προσεύχομαι.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
26:29; 26:29; 27:29; 27:29
Romans
9:3; 9:3
2 Corinthians
13:7; 13:9
Philemon
1:13
James
5:16
3 John
1:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2172 matches the Greek εὔχομαι (euchomai),
which occurs 57 times in 52 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 28:20–Jer 22:27)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey on which I am going, and will give me [fn]food to eat and garments to wear,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - ‘I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, [fn]leave this land, and return to the land of your kin.’”

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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Entreat Yahweh that He may cause the frogs to depart from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - And Moses said to Pharaoh, “[fn]May the honor be yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses, that they may remain only in the Nile?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - And Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away. Entreat for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you, and I shall entreat Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow; only may Pharaoh not deal deceitfully again in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh.”

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So Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - “Entreat Yahweh, for God’s [fn]thunder and hail are too much; and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:18 - And he went out from Pharaoh and entreated Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:8 - ‘But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be [fn]presented before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to [fn]the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man or woman makes a [fn]special vow, the vow of a [fn]Nazirite, to dedicate himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh,

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‘All the days of his vow as a Nazirite no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled for which he dedicated himself as a Nazirite to Yahweh; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long.

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‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his Nazirite vow are fulfilled: he shall bring [fn]the offering to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18 - ‘The Nazirite shall then shave the head of hair for his Nazirite vow at the doorway of the tent of meeting and take the hair of his head of his Nazirite vow and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:19 - ‘And the priest shall take the ram’s shoulder when it has been boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the [fn]hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved the hair of his Nazirite vow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:20 - ‘Then the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered by waving and the thigh offered by [fn]raising up; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.’

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“This is the law of the Nazirite who vows his offering to Yahweh according to his Nazirite vow, in addition to what else [fn]he can afford; according to his vow which he takes, so he shall do according to the law of his Nazirite vow.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:2 - The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire [fn]died out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - So Israel made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If You will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:7 - Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you; pray to Yahweh, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses prayed for the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - “If a man makes a vow to Yahweh or swears an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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“Also if a woman makes a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

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“But the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, everything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - “And Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - “And I prayed to Yahweh and said, ‘O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a strong hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - Then it will be that the place in which Yahweh your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I am commanding you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the [fn]contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - “You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the [fn]contribution of your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:21

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“When you make a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it will be a sin in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:22 - “However, if you refrain from vowing, it will not be a sin in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - “You shall be careful and do what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to Yahweh your God that which you spoke with your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - Then Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh and said, “If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - And it happened at the end of two months that she returned to her father, and he did to her according to the vow which he had made; and she did not know a man. Thus it became a [fn]custom in Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - And she made a vow and said, “O Yahweh of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a seed amongst men, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and a razor shall never come on his head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 -

“He keeps the feet of His holy ones,

But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness,

For not by power shall a man prevail.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:7

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Now it happened at the end of [fn]forty years that Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:8 - “For your servant vowed a vow while I was living at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:2 - Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:27 -

“You will entreat Him, and He will hear you;

And you will pay your vows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 33:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:26 -

Then he will entreat God, and He will accept him,

And he will see His face with joyful shouts,

And He may restore His righteousness to man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - “So now, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will [fn]accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:10

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And Yahweh restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and Yahweh increased all that Job had twofold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 76:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:11 -

Make vows to Yahweh your God and pay them;

Let all who are around Him bring gifts to the Fearsome One.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:2 -

How he swore to Yahweh

And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:25 -

It is a trap for a man to say rashly, “It is holy!”

And after the vows to make inquiry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4 -

When you make a vow to God, do not be late in paying it; for He takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:5 - It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:21 - Thus Yahweh will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make a vow to Yahweh and pay it.

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“As for you, do not pray for this people and do not lift up a cry of lamentation or prayer for them and do not intercede with Me, for I am not hearing you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:27 - “But as for the land to which their soul desires to return, they will not return to it.

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