εὐχαριστέω: Difference between revisions

|Full diacritics=εὐχᾰριστέω

|Definition=<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">bestow a favour on, oblige</b>, τῷ δήμῳ τῷ Δηλίων <span class="title">IG</span>11 (4).665 (Delos, iii B.C.); τινι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.4</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHib.</span>1.66.5</span> (iii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">to be thankful, return thanks</b>, Decr. ap. <span class="bibl">D.18.92</span>, <span class="title">IPE</span>12.352.14 (Chersonesus, ii B.C.); τοῖς Αθηναίοις <span class="bibl">Posidon.36</span> J., cf. Phld. <span class="title">Ir.</span>p.92 W., al.; <b class="b3">ἐπί τινι</b> or <b class="b3">περί τινος</b> <b class="b2">for</b> a thing, <span class="bibl">Plb.4.72.7</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.16.11</span>, etc.; esp. to the gods, <b class="b3">ἐπὶ τῷ ἐρρῶσθαί σε τοῖς θεοῖς εὐ</b>. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>59.10</span> (ii B.C.), cf. <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ju.</span>8.25</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">1 Ep.Cor.</span>1.4</span>, etc.:—Pass., <b class="b2">to be thanked</b>, ηὐχαρίστηται κεραυνοῖς <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Ep.</span>17</span>; <b class="b2">to be received with thanks</b>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">2 Ep.Cor.</span>1.11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b2">pray</b>, τῷ θεῷ περί τινος <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>2.413</span>,<span class="bibl">418</span> (iv A.D.).</span>

|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-01-1108.png Seite 1108]] dankbar sein, Dank abstatten; οὐκ ἐλλείψει εὐχαριστῶν καὶ ποιῶν ὅ τι ἂν δύνηται ἀγαθόν Dem. 18, 92, in einem Dekret der Byzantier; nach Phryn. 18 (wo Lob. zu vgl.) οὐδεὶς τῶν δοκίμων εἶπεν, ἀλλὰ [[χάριν]] [[εἰδέναι]]; nach Poll. 5, 141 εὐχ. ἐπὶ τῷ διδόναι [[χάριν]], οὐκ ἐπὶ τῷ [[εἰδέναι]], aber Pol. sagt [[εὐχαριστέω]] ἐπί τινι 16, 25, 1 = für Etwas danken; εὐχαρίστησε τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις Posidon. bei Ath. V, 213 e; [[περί]] τινος τοῖς θεοῖς D. Sic. 16, 11; oft in Inscr.

|strgr=from [[εὐχάριστος]]; to be [[grateful]], i.e. ([[actively]]) to [[express]] [[gratitude]] ([[towards]]); [[specially]], to [[say]] [[grace]] at a [[meal]]: ([[give]]) [[thank]](-ful, -s).

|txtha=εὐχαριστῶ; 1st aorist ἐυχαρίστησα (ἠυχαρίστησα (G L T Tr WH; [[see]] references in [[εὐδοκέω]], at the [[beginning]]); 1st aorist [[passive]] subjunctive 3rd [[person]] [[singular]] εὐχαριστηθῇ ([[εὐχάριστος]], [[which]] [[see]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to be [[grateful]], [[feel]] [[thankful]]; so in the [[decree]] of the Byzantines in [[Demosthenes]] pro cor., p. 257,2.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[give]] [[thanks]] (so Posid. quoted in Athen. 5, p. 213e.; [[Polybius]], Diodorus, [[Philo]], Josephus, [[Plutarch]], [[Epictetus]], others; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 18 (Winer's Grammar, 23 (22))): τίνι, [[especially]] τῷ Θεῷ, [[ἵνα]] ... [[ὑπέρ]] [[τῶν]] ἀγαθῶν ὁ Θεός ἐυχαρίστηται, [[Philo]], quis rer. div. her. § 36). [[simply]], so [[that]] τῷ Θεῷ [[must]] be added mentally: εὐχαριστεῖν τῷ Θεῷ [[διά]] Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, [[through]] Christ i. e. by Christ's [[help]] ([[because]] [[both]] the favors for [[which]] [[thanks]] are given and the [[gratitude]] [[which]] prompts the [[thanks]] are [[due]] to Christ (cf. Winer's Grammar, 378 (354) [[note]])): R WH marginal [[reading]]; τῷ Θεῷ ἐν ὀνόματι Χριστοῦ ([[see]] [[ὄνομα]], 2c.), [[περί]] τίνος, the genitive of [[person]], [[concerning]], [[with]] [[regard]] to [[one]] ([[ὅτι]] added epexegetically, R G [[ὑπέρ]]); [[ἐπί]] and the dative of the [[thing]] for, on [[account]] of, [[which]], [[ὑπέρ]] τίνος, the genitive of [[person]], [[ὑπέρ]] [[with]] the genitive of the [[thing]], for, on [[account]] of, [[ὅτι]]: [[ὅτι]], λαλῶ L T Tr WH, for [[which]] R G λαλῶν, the participle declaring the [[cause]] [[which]] prompts to [[thanksgiving]] (Winer s Grammar, 345f (324); Buttmann, 300 (258))). Once εὐχαριστεῖν τί, for a [[thing]], in the [[passage]] Buttmann, 148 (130); Winer's Grammar, 222 (209)); in the Fathers εὐχαριστεῖν τί is "to [[consecrate]] a [[thing]] by giving [[thanks]], to '[[bless]]'": ὁ ἐυχαριστηθεις [[ἄρτος]] καί [[οἶνος]], Justin Martyr, Apology 1,65 at the [[end]]; ἐυχαριστηθεισα [[τροφή]], ibid.<br /><b class="num">c.</b> 66; εἰσιν οἱ ἐυχαριστουσι ψιλον [[ὕδωρ]], Clement of [[Alexandria]], strom. i., p. 317, Sylb. edition; (cf. Suicer, Thesaurus i., 1269. "The words [[εὐχάριστος]], εὐχαριστεῖν, [[εὐχαριστία]], [[occur]] in St. Paul's writings [[alone]] of the apostolic Epistles" (Lightfoot; cf. Ellicott on Colossians 1:12)).