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Eumetadotos means generous, ready to give, or willing to distribute resources for another's good. Its single New Testament occurrence commands the rich to become generous alongside doing good and being rich in good works.
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Eumetadotos means generous, ready to give, or willing to distribute resources for another's good. Its single New Testament occurrence commands the rich to become generous alongside doing good and being rich in good works.
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include generous (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Timothy 6:18. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Timothy (1).
Eumetadotos means generous, ready to give, or willing to distribute resources for another's good. Its single New Testament occurrence commands the rich to become generous alongside doing good and being rich in good works. Related passages show God supplying resources so generosity produces thanksgiving and identify sharing as a sacrifice pleasing to Him. The adjective describes a settled readiness rather than a single impressive gift, compulsory surrender, or generosity performed for status.
It does not erase prudent provision, consent, or accountability. Christian giving arises from hope in God rather than uncertain wealth, pays obligations justly, attends to actual need, and can be practiced transparently without controlling recipients. Churches should cultivate willing, wise, proportionate generosity while refusing manipulation, donor privilege, and concealment of financial misuse.
Eumetadotos names a readiness to give. Paul directs materially rich believers away from wealth-confidence and toward a generous disposition expressed through good works and shared resources.
Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share,
First Timothy 6:18 contains the direct occurrence, commanding the rich to do good, be rich in good works, be generous, and ready to share. The disposition answers the preceding warning about uncertain riches.
You will be enriched in every way to be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will produce thanksgiving to God.
Second Corinthians 9:11 uses related generosity language as supporting context: God's enrichment equips believers for generosity that produces thanksgiving to God.
And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Hebrews 13:16 supplies canonical support by joining doing good and sharing as sacrifices pleasing to God. It is not another occurrence of eumetadotos.
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Greek word. Generosity characterized by readiness to share one's possessions with others willingly
Generosity characterized by readiness to share one's possessions with others willingly
(εὖ, μεταδιδωμι), ready to impart: assoc. with κοινωνικός (for the distinction between the two, see Field, Notes, 213; CGT, in l), 1Ti.6:18.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
willingly sharing, ready to impart
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.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
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εὐμετάδοτος is built from these roots:
Eumetadotos shifts the question from whether a wealthy person has ever given to whether that person is genuinely ready to give. First Timothy dismantles pride and hope in uncertain riches before commanding good works, generosity, and shared life. The readiness is therefore worshipful reorientation: resources are received from God and held available for neighbor love.
Related texts show giving enabled by God's provision and returning in thanksgiving, not in the giver's control over the church. Congregations should teach planned and responsive generosity, disclose finances, protect recipients' dignity, and prevent large gifts from purchasing silence or authority. They should also reject manipulation that manufactures willingness through shame.
Biblical generosity is voluntary, truthful, practically wise, and eager for others' good beneath hope in the living God.
1Tim.6.18
Eumetadotos combines eu, well or readily, with a form related to metadidomi, to share or give a portion. It describes someone disposed and ready to give.
Covenant gleaning, openhanded lending, and provision for strangers establish generosity as structured neighbor care. David also confesses that gifts to God come from what God first supplied.
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