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Greek verb · G2165

εὐφραίνω

euphrainoyoo-frah'-ee-no

to celebrate

14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: euphraínō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2165is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2165

to put (middle voice or passively, be) in a good frame of mind, i.e. rejoice

The King James renders it: fare, make glad, be (make) merry, rejoice.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

euphraino is rendered "to celebrate". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across six books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 12:19Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

Luke 12:19εὐφραίνου

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Six of the word's fourteen uses are in Luke.

The other 21 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • do rejoice3
  • do be merry1
  • do rejoice you1
  • does make merry1
  • gladdening1
  • I may make merry1
  • let us be merry1
  • making good cheer1
  • they were rejoicing1
  • to be merry1
  • To make merry1
  • was glad1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

εὐφροσύνηeuphrosynejoyUses2

All 14, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • εὐφραίνου2
  • εὐφραίνεσθαι.¶1
  • εὐφραίνεσθε1
  • εὐφραινόμενος1
  • εὐφραίνονται1
  • εὐφραίνοντο1
  • εὐφραίνων1
  • εὐφρανθῆναι1
  • εὐφράνθητε1
  • εὐφράνθητι1
  • εὐφρανθῶ1
  • εὐφρανθῶμεν1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · present passive, command · 2nd person singular2V-PPM-2S
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
  • verb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person plural1V-APM-2P
  • verb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person singular1V-APM-2S
  • verb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)1V-APN
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person plural1V-APS-1P
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person singular1V-APS-1S
  • verb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IPI-3P
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PAP-NSM
  • verb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-PPI-3P
  • verb · present passive, command · 2nd person plural1V-PPM-2P
  • verb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PPN

Luke

six uses
  • Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

    Luke 12:19

    • εὐφραίνουeuphrainouverb · present passive, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do be merry
  • Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.

    Luke 15:23

    • εὐφρανθῶμενeuphranthomenverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: let us be merry
  • For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

    Luke 15:24

    • εὐφραίνεσθαι.¶euphrainesthaiverb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be merry
  • But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

    Luke 15:29

    • εὐφρανθῶeuphranthoverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may make merry
  • But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

    Luke 15:32

    • εὐφρανθῆναιeuphranthenaiverb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: To make merry
  • Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

    Luke 16:19

    • εὐφραινόμενοςeuphrainomenosverb · present passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: making good cheer

Acts

two uses
  • Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope,

    Acts 2:26

    • ηὐφράνθηeuphrantheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was glad
  • At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

    Acts 7:41

    • εὐφραίνοντοeuphrainontoverb · imperfect passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were rejoicing

Romans

one use
  • Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

    Romans 15:10

    • εὐφράνθητεeuphrantheteverb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do rejoice you

2 Corinthians

one use
  • For if I grieve you, who is left to cheer me but those whom I have grieved?

    2 Corinthians 2:2

    • εὐφραίνωνeuphrainonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: gladdening

Galatians

one use
  • For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

    Galatians 4:27

    • εὐφράνθητιeuphranthetiverb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do rejoice

Revelation

three uses
  • And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.

    Revelation 11:10

    • εὐφραίνονταιeuphrainontaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: does make merry
  • Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”

    Revelation 12:12

    • εὐφραίνεσθεeuphrainestheverb · present passive, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do rejoice
  • Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.

    Revelation 18:20

    • εὐφραίνουeuphrainouverb · present passive, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do rejoice

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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