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εὐλογ-ία , ἡ,
A.good or fine language, Pl.R.400d, Luc.Lex.1.
2. plausibility, “ἔχει τινὰ εὐλογίαν” Thphr.CP6.31.1; habet “εὐλογίαν” Cic.Att.13.22.4, cf. Ep.Rom.16.18; ἡ τοῦ δόγματος εὐ. prob. in Phld.Sign.27; “ἡ εὐ. τῶν πραγμάτων” Id.Herc.1251.8.
II. praise, eulogy, Pi.N.4.5, Th.2.42; “ὑμνῆσαι δι᾽ εὐλογίας” E. HF356 (lyr.); “ἄξιος εὐλογίας” Ar.Pax738: pl., Pi.I.3.3, 6(5).21, Pl. Ax.365a; good fame, glory, ἀγήραντος εὐ. Simon.100, cf. Pi.O.5.24; “εὐλογίαν φέρει” Lyr.Alex.Adesp.21.10; “ἔχειν εὐ. τινὰ πρός τινα” POxy. 65.4 (iii/iv A.D.).
2. esp.praise to God, LXX Si.50.20(22), Apoc. 7.12, OGI74 (Egypt).
III. act of blessing, opp. κατάρα, LXX Ge. 27.12, Ep.Jac.3.10.
2. blessing called down or bestowed, LXX Pr. 10.22, 1 Ep.Pet.3.9.
3. gift, bounty, LXX Jo.15.19, 4 Ki.5.15, 2 Ep.Cor.9.5; ὁ σπείρων ἐπ᾽ εὐλογίαις ἐπ᾽ εὐλογίαις καὶ θερίσει bountifully, ib. 6, cf. Ph.1.129.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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