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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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 - Jacob also made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I [fn]take, and 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 memorial stone, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, [fn]leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”

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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Plead with the LORD [fn]to remove the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, so that they may sacrifice to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - And Moses said to Pharaoh, “[fn]The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I plead for you and your servants and your people, [fn]that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, that they be left only in the Nile?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:28

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:29

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

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So Moses left Pharaoh and pleaded with the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - “Plead with the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s [fn]thunder and hail; 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 - Then he left Pharaoh and pleaded with the LORD.

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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 someone makes an explicit vow, he shall be valued according to your assessment of persons belonging to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:8

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

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

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‘All the days of his vow of consecration no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled which he lives as a Nazirite for the LORD; 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 consecration are fulfilled: he shall bring [fn]his offering to the entrance 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 his consecrated head of hair at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and take the consecrated hair of his head 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 loaf from the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the [fn]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 - ‘Then the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered as a wave offering, and the thigh offered as [fn]a contribution; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 6:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:2 - The people then cried out to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, 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 the LORD and said, “If You will indeed hand over this people to me, then I will [fn]utterly destroy their cities.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:7 - So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and against you; intercede with the LORD, that He will remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded 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 takes an oath to [fn]put himself under a binding obligation, he shall not break his word; he shall act in accordance with everything that comes out of his mouth.

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“And if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and puts herself under a binding obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

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“But as for the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, every binding obligation under which she has put herself, shall remain valid against her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - “The LORD was also 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 the LORD and said, ‘Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, 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 it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring everything that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the [fn]contribution of your hand, and all your choice vowed offerings which you will vow to the LORD.

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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, new wine, or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your vowed offerings which you vow, or your [fn]voluntary offerings, or the [fn]contribution 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 certainly require it of you, and it will be a sin [fn]for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:22 - “However, if you refrain from making vows, it will not be a sin [fn]for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - “You shall be careful and perform what goes out of your lips, since in fact you have vowed a [fn]voluntary offering to the LORD your God, whatever you have [fn]promised.

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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 hand over to me the sons of Ammon,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - And at the end of two months she returned to her father, who did to her [fn]what he had vowed; and she [fn]had no relations with a man. And it became a 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, “LORD of armies, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your bond-servant and remember me, and not forget Your bond-servant, but will give Your bond-servant a [fn]son, then I will give him to the LORD 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 watches over the feet of His godly ones,

But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness;

For not by might shall a person prevail.

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Now it came about at the end of [fn]four years that Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to the LORD, in Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:8 - “For your servant made a vow while I was living in Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the LORD will indeed bring 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 to 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 pray to 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 pray to God, and He will accept him,

So that he may see His face with joy,

And He will restore His righteousness to that person.

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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, 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 as not to do with you as your foolishness deserves, because you have not spoken of Me what is trustworthy, as My servant Job has.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:10 -

The LORD also restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the LORD increased double all that Job had.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 76:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:11 -

Make vows to the LORD your God and fulfill them;

All who are around Him are to bring gifts to Him who is 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 trap for a person to say carelessly, “It is holy!”

And after the vows to make inquiry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 5:4

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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 not vow, than vow and not pay.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:21 - So the LORD will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD on that day. They will even worship with sacrifice and offering, and will make a vow to the LORD and perform it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:16

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“As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not plead with Me; for I am not listening to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:27

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

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