Word study

Generously

3 Hebrew and 4 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “generously”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “generously” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • נָתַן nâthangive, put, settranslated this way 1 time of its 1,957 uses · Strong’s H5414Verb  ·  Translated: give 326, gave 206, given 187, put 135Full study and all 1,785 verses →
  • נָדַב nâdabincite, impeltranslated this way 1 time of its 17 uses · Strong’s H5068Verb  ·  Translated: prompted 2, volunteer 2

    1 Chronicles 29:14 But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.

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  • רָבָה râbâhbe, or become, much, many, greattranslated this way 1 time of its 219 uses · Strong’s H7235Verb  ·  Translated: multiply 39, multiplied 23, many 15, much 10

    2 Chronicles 31:5 As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance — a tithe of everything.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • εὐλογία eulogíaadulation, praise, blessingtranslated this way 3 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s G2129Noun  ·  Translated: blessing 9, generously 3, flattery 1, generous gift 1

    2 Corinthians 9:5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you beforehand and make arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. This way, your gift will be prepared generously and not begrudgingly.

    2 Corinthians 9:6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

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  • ποιέω poiéōI do, maketranslated this way 1 time of its 544 uses · Strong’s G4160Verb  ·  Translated: do 50, done 44, doing 40, made 34Full study and all 494 verses →
  • ἁπλότης haplótēssimplicity, sincerity, puritytranslated this way 1 time of its 7 uses · Strong’s G572Noun  ·  Translated: generosity 2, sincerity 2, give generously 1, generous 1

    Romans 12:8 if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully.

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  • ἁπλῶς haplōssimply, sincerelytranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G574Adverb  ·  Translated: generously 1

    James 1:5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.