Lexical Summary euchē: a prayer Original Word: εὐχήTransliteration: euchē Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-khay') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a prayer Meaning: a prayer Strong's Concordance prayer, vow. From euchomai; properly, a wish, expressed as a petition to God, or in votive obligation -- prayer, vow. see GREEK euchomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2171: εὐχήεὐχή, εὐχῆς, ἡ (εὔχομαι (from Homer down); 1. a prayer to God: James 5:15. 2. a vow (often so in the Sept. for נֵדֶר and נֶדֶר, also for נֵזֶר consecration, see ἁγνίζω): εὐχήν ἔχειν, to have taken a vow, Acts 18:18; with ἐφ' ἑαυτῶν added (see ἐπί, A. I. 1 f., p. 232a), Acts 21:23. |
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