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Lexicon :: Strong's G2172 - euchomai

Aa
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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:13 - I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go forth from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, "Be pleased to command me when I am to entreat, for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going out from you and I will pray to the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal falsely again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:30

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:28 - Entreat the LORD; for there has been enough of this thunder and hail; I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:18 - So he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:2 - "Say to the people of Israel, When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:8 - And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:2 - "Say to the people of Israel, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:5 - "All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:13 - "And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the door of the tent of meeting,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:18 - And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tent 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 BoxNum 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:19 - And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaven the hair of his consecration,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:20 - and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD; they are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 6:21 - "This is the law for the Nazirite who takes a vow. His offering to the LORD shall be according to his vow as a Nazirite, apart from what else he can afford; in accordance with the vow which he takes, so shall he do according to the law for his separation as a Nazirite."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:2 - Then the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire abated.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, "If thou wilt indeed give this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:7 - And 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 BoxNum 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:2 - When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:3 - Or when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house, in her youth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:9 - But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:26 - And I prayed to the LORD, 'O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thy heritage, whom thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:11 - then to the place which the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, thither you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, and all your votive offerings which you vow to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd or of your flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the offering that you present;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:21

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:22 - But if you refrain from vowing, it shall be no sin in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:23 - You shall be careful to perform what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:39 - And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had made. She had never known a man. And it became a custom in Israel

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:11 - And she vowed a vow and said, "O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy maidservant, and remember me, and not forget thy maidservant, but wilt give to thy maidservant a son, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:9 - "He will guard the feet of his faithful ones; but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might shall a man prevail.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:7 - And at the end of four years Ab'salom said to the king, "Pray let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:8 - For your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Aram, saying, 'If the LORD will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the LORD.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:2 - Then Hezeki'ah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:27 - You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:26 - then man prays to God, and he accepts him, he comes into his presence with joy. He recounts to men his salvation,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and 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 his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:10 - And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 76:11 - Make your vows to the LORD your God, and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 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 BoxPro 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:25 - It is a snare for a man to say rashly, "It is holy," and to reflect only after making his vows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4 - When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 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 BoxIsa 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:21 - And the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians; and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day and worship with sacrifice and burnt offering, and they will make vows to the LORD and perform them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:16 - "As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I do not hear you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:27 - But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return."

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