Bible word study

Eulogia (Strong’s G2129): Meaning in the Bible

Eulogia (εὐλογία) is the Greek word numbered G2129 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as fine speaking, i.e. elegance of language; commendation ("eulogy"), i.e. (reverentially) adoration; religiously, benediction; by implication, consecration; by extension, benefit or largess. In the King James Bible it is translated blessing (a matter of) bounty (X -tifully), fair speech..

• Original wordεὐλογία
• Transliterationeulogía
• Pronunciationyoo-log-ee'-ah
• Strong’s numberG2129
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from the same as G2127;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Eulogia appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Eulogia (G2129) stands behind 16 English renderings in 14 verses across 9 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 2 Corinthians (4), Revelation (3), Romans (2).

How the King James Bible renders Eulogia, by count

• blessing10 of 16 (62 percent)
• bountifully2 of 16 (12 percent)
• bounty2 of 16 (12 percent)
• blessings1 of 16 (6 percent)
• speeches1 of 16 (6 percent)

Three places to read Eulogia

• Romans 15:29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
• 2 Corinthians 9:6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
• James 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Eulogia in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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