Lexical Summary euergetēs: a doer of good, a benefactor Original Word: εὐεργέτηςTransliteration: euergetēs Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-erg-et'-ace) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a doer of good, a benefactor Meaning: a doer of good, a benefactor Strong's Concordance benefactor. From eu and the base of ergon; a worker of good, i.e. (specially) a philanthropist -- benefactor. see GREEK eu see GREEK ergon Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2110: εὐεργέτηςεὐεργέτης, Αὐεργέτου, ὁ, a benefactor (from Pindar and Herodotus down); it was also a title of honor, conferred on such as had done their country service, and upon princes; equivalent to Sorer, Pater Patriae: Luke 22:25. (Cf. Herodotus 8, 85; Thucydides 1, 129; Xenophon, vect. 3, 11; Hell. 6, 1, 4; Plato, de virt., p. 379 b.; others; cf. 2 Macc. 4:2; joined with σωτήρ, Josephus, b. j. 3, 9, 8; Additions to Esther 6:12 |
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