ἀγαθωσύνη
agathōsýnē · G19 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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good, goodness, good act
Positive moral qualities of the most general nature
ExamplesRomans 15:14 And concerning you, my brothers and sisters, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 5:9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),
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to be generous, generosity
The act of generous giving, with the implication of its relationship to goodness
ExamplesGalatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
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
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- καρπόςfruit 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εὐδοκίαwhat pleases 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- טוֹב ṭôwb · H2896 · good, nice, beautiful
- טוֹב (ṭôwb, H2896) is the Hebrew adjective/noun root denoting goodness in its broad semantic range (moral virtue, practical benefit, aesthetic beauty), while ἀγαθωσύνη (agathōsýnē, G19) is the Greek abstract noun specifically denoting goodness as a quality or disposition (virtue/beneficence); the Hebrew term is the natural lexical source for the Greek term's semantic field in LXX translation contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To be generous, generosity57.109
- This domain reflects a further sense of open-handed generosity, found elsewhere in this word's range of occurrences rather than being illustrated by the citations sampled here.
- Good, goodness, good act88.1
- This noun denotes moral goodness or virtue, as in Galatians 5:22's listing of goodness among the fruit of the Spirit, alongside love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, and faithfulness.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ης, ἡ (on its formation see Winers Grammar, 95 (90); WHs Appendix, p. 152), found only…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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