Bible word study

Euonymos (Strong’s G2176): Meaning in the Bible

Euonymos (εὐώνυμος) is the Greek word numbered G2176 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, well-named (good-omened), i.e. the left (which was the lucky side among the pagan Greeks); neuter as adverbial, at the left hand. In the King James Bible it is translated (on the) left..

• Original wordεὐώνυμος
• Transliterationeuṓnymos
• Pronunciationyoo-o'-noo-mos
• Strong’s numberG2176
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G2095 and G3686;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Euonymos appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Euonymos (G2176) stands behind 10 English renderings in 10 verses across 4 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (5), Mark (3), Acts (1).

How the King James Bible renders Euonymos, by count

• left5 of 10 (50 percent)
• hand2 of 10 (20 percent)
• left hand1 of 10 (10 percent)
• the left1 of 10 (10 percent)
• the left hand1 of 10 (10 percent)

Three places to read Euonymos

• Matthew 20:21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
• Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Mark 10:40 But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.

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 Euonymos 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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