Opportunity

Usually translated “occasion” and “opportunity”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• an occasion 2
• occasion 2
• an opportunity 2
• opportunity 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Romans 2
• 2 Corinthians 2
• Galatians 1
• 1 Timothy 1

4 books in all.

• Opportunity (eukairia)
• To lack opportunity (akaireō)
• To have opportunity (eukaireō)
• Opportunity (toanah)

• Romans 7:8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
• Romans 7:11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
• 2 Corinthians 5:12For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
• 2 Corinthians 11:12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
• Galatians 5:13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “opportunity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.