What does εὐποιΐα (eupoiḯa) mean in the Bible?
εὐποιΐα (eupoiḯa): Beneficence as concrete action of doing good, not mere goodwill or charitable disposition alone
Greek · G2140
εὐποιΐα
Doing good
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εὐποιΐαG2140
Pronunciationeupoiḯa
What does εὐποιΐα (eupoiḯa) mean in the Bible?
εὐποιΐα (eupoiḯa): Beneficence as concrete action of doing good, not mere goodwill or charitable disposition alone
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How does the BSB render G2140?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include to do good (1).
Where does εὐποιΐα (eupoiḯa) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Hebrews 13:16. Its strongest book concentrations include Hebrews (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itto do good1×Hebrews 13:16
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First aligned rowHebrews 13:16
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Hebrews1
Source forms
εὐποιΐας1xeupoiiasHebrews 13:16
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular1xHebrews 13:16
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Beneficence as concrete action of doing good, not mere goodwill or charitable disposition alone
Strong'sG2140
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
doing good
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Beneficence as concrete action of doing good, not mere goodwill or charitable disposition alone
1beneficence, doing good: Heb.13:16.
2a benefit (FlJ, Ant., ii, ll, 2, al.).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Hebrews 13:16Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
εὐποιΐαςeupoiiav
doing of good
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.
Grammatical Forms
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.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternGenitive (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · FeminineHeb 13:161×
Word Origins
εὐποιΐα is built from these roots: