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the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: εὐοδόω

(Strong's #2137 — Verb — euodoo — yoo-od-o'-o )

"to help on one's way" (eu, "well," hodos, "a way or journey"), is used in the Passive Voice signifying "to have a prosperous journey," Romans 1:10; metaphorically, "to prosper, be prospered," 1 Corinthians 16:2 , RV, "(as) he may prosper," AV, "(as God) hath prospered (him)," lit., "in whatever he may be prospered," i.e., in material things; the continuous tense suggests the successive circumstances of varying prosperity as week follows week; in 3 John 1:2 , of the "prosperity" of physical and spiritual health.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Prosper'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​p/prosper.html. 1940.
 
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