To praise/bless
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eulogeo means to bless, speak well of, praise, or invoke blessing, with the direction and meaning set by context. People bless God by praise; God blesses His people by gracious favor; Jesus blesses food and disciples; believers are commanded to bless persecutors; patriarchs bless future heirs; and the cup of blessing names covenant participation in Christ's blood.
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eulogeo means to bless, speak well of, praise, or invoke blessing, with the direction and meaning set by context. People bless God by praise; God blesses His people by gracious favor; Jesus blesses food and disciples; believers are commanded to bless persecutors; patriarchs bless future heirs; and the cup of blessing names covenant participation in Christ's.
The BSB source-word alignment has 42 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include blessed (8), Blessed is (6), bless (4), spoke a blessing (3), we bless (3).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 14:19. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (13), Hebrews (7), Mark (6), Matthew (5).
Eulogeo means to bless, speak well of, praise, or invoke blessing, with the direction and meaning set by context. People bless God by praise; God blesses His people by gracious favor; Jesus blesses food and disciples; believers are commanded to bless persecutors; patriarchs bless future heirs; and the cup of blessing names covenant participation in Christ's blood.
The word should not be treated as a vague religious mood or as a power that humans control. Ephesians 1:3 gives a doxological center: God is blessed because He has blessed believers in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. For pastoral teaching, eulogeo joins praise, received grace, spoken good, table fellowship, and future hope under God's generous initiative.
The selected passages show blessing moving Godward in praise, downward from God in grace, outward toward enemies, through Christ's table, and forward through patriarchal promise. Direction matters in every use.
And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
Jesus blesses before feeding the crowd, receiving the loaves and fish in dependence on the Father. The action marks thanksgiving and divine provision rather than a magical change in the food.
When Jesus had led them out as far as Bethany, He lifted up His hands and blessed them.
The risen Jesus lifts His hands and blesses His disciples before the ascension. Blessing here is the Lord's parting favor over those who will bear witness.
Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse.
Believers are commanded to bless persecutors and not curse them. eulogeo becomes a cruciform speech ethic shaped by mercy rather than retaliation.
Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
The cup of blessing is linked with participation in the blood of Christ. Blessing language here serves communion with Christ and the covenant meal.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
Paul blesses God because God has blessed believers in Christ. The verse shows both praise and received grace in one compact doxology.
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.
Isaac blesses Jacob and Esau concerning the future. The word can carry patriarchal promise and faith in what God has spoken ahead of visible fulfillment.
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Greek word. Praise of God or invocation of divine blessing; blessing as God's sovereign bestowal of benefit.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 45 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 41 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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εὐλογέω is built from these roots:
Demonstrates Christ’s ongoing priestly favor. 1 Peter 3:8-12
Indicates divine invocation over provision. Luke 24:50–53
Shows that Christian response to hostility is active benevolence, not passive silence. Luke 9:10–17
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Eulogeo teaches the church to ask, Who is blessing whom, and on what basis? In Matthew 14, Jesus blesses in a scene of provision. In Luke 24, the risen Lord blesses His disciples as He ascends. Romans 12 commands believers to bless persecutors, which means speech shaped by mercy rather than revenge. First Corinthians 10 names the cup of blessing as participation in Christ's blood, so blessing is not detached from covenant fellowship.
Ephesians 1 gathers the whole word into praise: God is blessed because He has blessed His people in Christ with every spiritual blessing. Hebrews 11 shows patriarchal blessing leaning forward in faith. The word therefore resists shallow positivity. Blessing is praise returned to God, grace received from Him, and speech or action that accords with His promises and mercy.
Eph.1.3
Eulogeo literally carries the idea of speaking well, but New Testament usage extends across praise, invocation, favor, and consecrating thanksgiving according to context. The grammar and participants matter: blessing God is praise; God blessing people is gracious favor; believers blessing enemies is a disciplined speech ethic.
The Old Testament blessing stream runs through creation, Abraham, priestly blessing, meals, and patriarchal promise. The New Testament receives that stream in Christ, where blessing becomes doxology, table fellowship, enemy-love speech, and inheritance secured by God's promise.
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