Original Word: εὐεργέτης
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: euergetés
Pronunciation: yoo-er-GHE-tace
Phonetic Spelling: (yoo-erg-et'-ace)
KJV: benefactor
NASB: benefactors
Word Origin: [from G2095 (εὖ - well) and the base of G2041 (ἔργον - works)]

1. a worker of good
2. (specially) a philanthropist

benefactor.

From eu and the base of ergon; a worker of good, i.e. (specially) a philanthropist -- benefactor.

see GREEK eu

see GREEK ergon

Word Origin
from eu and the same as ergon
Definition
a doer of good, i.e. a benefactor
NASB Translation
benefactors (1).

STRONGS NT 2110: εὐεργέτης

εὐεργέτης, Αὐεργέτου, ὁ, a benefactor (from Pindar and Herodotus down); it was also a title of honor, conferred on such as had done their country service, and upon princes; equivalent to Sorer, Pater Patriae: Luke 22:25. (Cf. Herodotus 8, 85; Thucydides 1, 129; Xenophon, vect. 3, 11; Hell. 6, 1, 4; Plato, de virt., p. 379 b.; others; cf. 2 Macc. 4:2; joined with σωτήρ, Josephus, b. j. 3, 9, 8; Additions to Esther 6:12 [Esther 8:308:12n] (Tdf. viii. 1,25); Diodorus 11, 26.)

Forms and Transliterations

ευεργεται ευεργέται εὐεργέται εύζωνοι ευήκοον ευήχοις ευήχων ευθαλή ευθαλών euergetai euergétai

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