eucharistia · thanksgiving, gratitude

What it means

eucharistia (εὐχαριστία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “thanksgiving, gratitude”.

Thanksgiving, giving thanks; gratitude.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Expressing gratefulness to God or someone.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• thanksgiving ×11
• thanksgivings ×2
• gratitude ×1
• thanks ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×3
• Ephesians×1
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×2
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 1 Timothy×3
• Revelation×2

• Acts 24:3

  in every way and everywhere we acknowledge it, most excellent Felix, with all gratitude.

• 1 Corinthians 14:16

  Otherwise, if you bless in the spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the uninstructed say the Amen to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?

• 2 Corinthians 4:15

  For all things are for your sake, so that grace, increasing through more and more people, may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

• 2 Corinthians 9:11

  being enriched in everything for all generosity, which produces through us thanksgiving to God;

• 2 Corinthians 9:12

  because the service of this sacred service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but also overflowing through many thanksgivings to God.

• Ephesians 5:4

  and no obscenity and foolish talk or crude joking, which are not fitting, but rather thanksgiving.

• Philippians 4:6

  Be anxious about nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

• Colossians 2:7

  rooted and being built up in him and being strengthened in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

• Colossians 4:2

  Continue steadfastly in prayer, keeping watch in it with thanksgiving,

• 1 Thessalonians 3:9

  For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God,

• 1 Timothy 2:1

  I urge, then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

• 1 Timothy 4:3

  who forbid marriage and require abstaining from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

• 1 Timothy 4:4

  For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

• Revelation 4:9

  And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives to the ages of the ages,

• Revelation 7:12

  saying, “Amen! The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the strength be to our God to the ages of the ages! Amen.”