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ἁδρότης

hadrótēs · G100 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. abundance, generous gift

    An abundant amount, with the implication of generosity

    Examples

    2 Corinthians 8:20 taking precaution so that no one will discredit us in our administration of this generous gift;

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
ἁπλότης haplótēs · G572 · sincerity, purity of motive, generosity
ἁπλότης in the sense of 'generosity' or 'liberality' is a well-attested near-synonym for ἁδρότης; both denote the quality of generous giving, though ἁπλότης emphasizes sincerity and single-minded generosity while ἁδρότης emphasizes abundance or richness in giving.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Abundance, generous gift59.60
This noun denotes an abundant, generous contribution, as in 2 Corinthians 8:20's reference to Paul's precaution in administering this generous gift so that no one would discredit him.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Rec.st ἀδρ.), (ητος, ἡ, or better (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii. 417)…
(Rec.st ἀδρ.), (ητος, ἡ, or better (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii. 417) ἁδροτής, (ῆτος (on the accent cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer under the word; Chandler §§ 634, 635), (from ἁδρός thick, stout, full-grown, strong, rich (2 Kgs 10:6, 2 Kgs 10:11, etc.)), in Greek writings it follows the significance of the adjective ἁδρός; once in the N. T.: 2 Cor 8:20, bountiful collection, great liberality, (R. V. bounty). (ἁδροσύνη, of an abundant harvest, Hesiod ἐργ. 471.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Abundance, Excess, Sparing1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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