enviably well off: an outside observer's exclamation that someone's whole situation is genuinely to be envied, usually because of where they stand with God
This is the word Jesus uses to open the Beatitudes, and it is regularly translated "blessed," but it is not the Bible's word for a blessing handed down from God. Another word group does that work (the one behind "Blessed are you, O Lord"). This word instead steps back and points: it declares that a person's condition is enviable, that you would want to be in their place. It is a third party's verdict about someone, not a gift being placed on them. The closest plain English is something like "how fortunate" or "how well off," said about the whole shape of a life rather than a passing good mood.
That is why it lands with such force in the Beatitudes. Jesus aims it at the poor, the grieving, the persecuted, and the people nobody would call fortunate, and announces that in God's kingdom they are exactly the ones to be envied. The same form runs across the New Testament: a person who is not tripped up by Jesus, the eyes that see what prophets longed to see, the servant found ready when the master returns, the one who reads and keeps the words of Revelation. In each case the word names a condition that is already true and enviable in God's sight, even when present circumstances look painful.
The senses below mostly differ in setting, not in core meaning. Most uses are this third-party verdict spoken over people. A smaller group sits closer to ordinary Greek speech, where the word simply meant "fortunate" with no particular religious weight. And in a couple of places the New Testament makes a bold move that the Greek Old Testament never did: it turns the word into a title for God himself, the supremely happy and self-sufficient One from whom every good condition flows.