Euchrestos means “profitable” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2173 — zimrah (“best fruit”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2173 εὔχρηστος (euchrestos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. euchrestos (yoo'-khrays-tos) adj. 1. easily used, i.e. useful [from G2095 and G5543] It has 5 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include profitable and meet. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
euchrestos (yoo'-khrays-tos) adj. 1. easily used, i.e. useful [from G2095 and G5543] KJV: profitable, meet for use Root(s): G2095, G5543
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Usage: εὔ-χρηστος, -ον (εὖ, χράομαι), [in LXX: Pro.31:13 (חֵפֶץ), Wis.13:13 * ;] useful, serviceable: with dative of person(s), 2Ti.2:21; id. before εἰς, with dative of thing(s), 2Ti.4:11; opposite to ἄχρηστος, Phm 11.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render euchrestos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2173 (εὔχρηστος) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Gathering wool and flax, she makes it serviceable with her hands.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, Being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, Hath carved it diligently when he had nothing else to do, And formed it by the skill of his understanding, And fashioned it to the image of a man;
First 5 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2173.
Gathering wool and flax, she makes it serviceable with her hands.
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
And taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, Being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, Hath carved it diligently when he had nothing else to do, And formed it by the skill of his understanding, And fashioned it to the image of a man;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2173, grouped by book.
Euchrestos (Strong's G2173) is a Greek word most simply glossed "profitable". euchrestos (yoo'-khrays-tos) adj. 1. easily used, i.e. useful [from G2095 and G5543]
This page currently indexes 5 linked usages for Strong's G2173 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2173 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as profitable and meet. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2173, with linked reader references where each row is available.