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Strong's numbers

εὔχρηστος G2173

eúchrēstos

yoo'-khrays-tos

from εὖ and χρηστός; easily used, i.e. useful:--profitable, meet for use.

Abbott–Smith

εὔ-χρηστος, -ον (εὖ, χράομαι), [in LXX: Pr 31:13 (חֵפֶץ), Wi 13:13 * ;]
useful, serviceable: c. dat. pers., II Ti 2:21; id. seq. εἰς, c. dat. rei, II Ti 4:11; opp. to ἄχρηστος, Phm 11.†

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), in the public domain.


3 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • 2 Timothy 2:21
    If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
  • 2 Timothy 4:11
    Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
  • Philemon 1:11
    Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

3 in the Septuagint

  • Proverbs 29:31
    μηρυομένη ἔρια καὶ λίνον ἐποίησεν εὔχρηστον ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτῆς.
  • Wisdom 13:13
    τὸ δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀπόβλημα εἰς οὐθὲν εὔχρηστον, ξύλον σκολιὸν καὶ ὄζοις συμπεφυκός, λαβὼν ἔγλυψεν ἐν ἐπιμελείᾳ ἀργίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐμπειρίᾳ ἀνέσεως ἐτύπωσεν αὐτό, ἀπείκασεν αὐτὸ εἰκόνι ἀνθρώπου,
  • Psalms of Solomon 5:2
    ὅτι εὔχρηστος καὶ ἐλεήμων ἡ καταφυγὴ τοῦ πτωχοῦ·

Biblion's Septuagint: the Greek Old Testament in H. B. Swete's edition (Cambridge, 1896–1905), as digitized by the Open Greek and Latin project at the University of Leipzig (First1KGreek), corrected against the printed pages, with lemmas, morphology, Strong's numbers and links to the Hebrew prepared for Biblion. CC BY-SA 4.0.