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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 Box Gen 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:20 - Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - ‘I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and where you made a vow to Me. Now arise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your family.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:8 - Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Entreat the LORD that He may take away the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - And Moses said to Pharaoh, “Accept the honor of saying when I shall intercede for you, for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may remain in the river only.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Then Moses said, “Indeed I am going out from you, and I will entreat the LORD, that the swarms of flies may depart tomorrow from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. But let Pharaoh not deal deceitfully anymore in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:30 - So Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - “Entreat the LORD, that there may be no more mighty thundering and hail, for it is enough. 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 - So he went out from Pharaoh and entreated the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:2 - “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the LORD, according to your valuation,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:8 - ‘But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him; according to the ability of him 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 children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5 - ‘All the days of the vow of his separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separated himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. Then he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:13 - ‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall be brought to the door of the tabernacle of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18 - ‘Then the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:19 - ‘And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them upon the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated hair,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:20 - ‘and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD; they are holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:21 - “This is the law of the Nazirite who vows to the LORD the offering for his separation, and besides that, whatever else his hand is able to provide; according to the vow which he takes, so he must do according to the law of his separation.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:2 - Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the LORD, the fire was quenched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - So Israel made a vow to the LORD, and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:7 - Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us.” So 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 the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3 - “Or if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father’s house in her youth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:9 - “Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, 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 the LORD was very angry with Aaron and would have destroyed him; so I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - “then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - “You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:21 - “When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:22 - “But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - “That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, “If You will indeed deliver the people of Ammon into my hands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - And it was so at the end of two months that she returned to her father, and he carried out his vow with her which he had vowed. She knew no man. And it became a custom in Israel

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 1:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - Then she made a vow and said, “O LORD 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 male child, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 - He will guard the feet of His saints,
But the wicked shall be silent in darkness.

“For by strength no man shall prevail.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:7 - Now it came to pass after forty[fn] years that Absalom said to the king, “Please, let me go to Hebron and pay the vow which I made to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:8 - “For your servant took a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the LORD indeed brings me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:27 - You will make your prayer to Him,
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 - He shall pray to God, and He will delight in him,
He shall see His face with joy,
For He restores to man His righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - “Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal 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

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:10 - And the LORD restored Job’s losses[fn] when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 76:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:11 - Make vows to the LORD your God, and pay them;
Let all who are around Him bring presents to Him who ought to be feared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:2 - How he swore to the LORD,
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 snare for a man to devote rashly something as holy,
And afterward to reconsider his vows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4 - When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it;
For He has no pleasure in fools.
Pay what you have vowed—

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:5 - Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:21 - Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day, and will make sacrifice and offering; yes, they will make a vow to the LORD and perform it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:16 - “Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; for I will not hear you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:27 - “But to the land to which they desire to return, there they shall not return.

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