Gratitude; actively, grateful language (to God, as an act of worship)
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G2169 names thanksgiving, gratitude, or grateful speech. In its New Testament settings, the word is used with the range and pressure described by its local passages rather than by a bare gloss alone.
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G2169 names thanksgiving, gratitude, or grateful speech. In its New Testament settings, the word is used with the range and pressure described by its local passages rather than by a bare gloss alone.
The BSB source-word alignment has 15 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include thanksgiving (6), thanks (2), . . . (1), [adequately] thank (1), [and] thanksgiving (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 24:3. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Timothy (3), 2 Corinthians (3), Colossians (2), Revelation (2).
G2169 names thanksgiving, gratitude, or grateful speech. In its New Testament settings, the word is used with the range and pressure described by its local passages rather than by a bare gloss alone. It appears where grace received becomes thanks returned to God through prayer, generosity, speech, and ordinary reception of created gifts. Thanksgiving is a theological response, not generic optimism.
This companion therefore treats the word as a Scripture-governed guide, not as a shortcut around exegesis. It helps teachers call people away from entitlement and toward grateful acknowledgment of God. It should help readers ask better questions of the passage: who is speaking or acting, what covenant or gospel reality is in view, and how the surrounding context limits or strengthens the claim.
Thanksgiving does not deny lament, evil, pain, or the need for repentance.
G2169 gathers gratitude, prayer, generosity, speech, and daily reception under the goodness of God.
All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow, to the glory of God.
Grace extending to more people causes thanksgiving to overflow to God\'s glory.
For this ministry of service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanksgiving to God.
Generous ministry overflows in many expressions of thanksgiving to God.
Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving replaces corrupt speech as the mouth is redirected toward holiness.
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
Prayer is to be watchful and thankful.
For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,
Created gifts are received with thanksgiving under the truth of God.
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Greek word. Gratitude expressed as active worship and verbal thanksgiving to God, not mere internal feeling alone
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
15 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.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 6 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
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εὐχαριστία is built from this root:
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Teach G2169 as grace returned to God in grateful acknowledgment. A faithful teacher should begin with the nearest passage, observe who acts, what is being named, what problem or promise is in view, and what response the text calls for, then move carefully to related passages. The word helps expose entitlement, despair, corrupt speech, anxiety, and false severity toward creation.
The entry should help readers read Scripture more carefully, not replace the work of tracing the sentence, paragraph, book, and covenant setting. This keeps the word useful for shepherds, teachers, leaders, groups, families, and disciples without letting the word carry claims that belong to the whole passage or canon.
2Cor.4.15
The noun is related to grace and gratitude. Context decides whether the focus is inward thankfulness or outward thanksgiving speech.
Thanksgiving offerings and psalms of thanks prepare for New Testament gratitude shaped by Christ.
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