ἀσμένως
asménōs · G780 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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happily, gladly
Pertaining to experiencing happiness, implying ready and willing acceptance
ExamplesActs 21:17 After we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received us gladly.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- προθύμως prothýmōs · G4290 · eager, eagerly, willing
- Greek adverb expressing eager willingness and readiness to act, semantically overlapping with ἀσμένως in conveying a positive, willing disposition. While προθύμως emphasizes the readiness/eagerness aspect and ἀσμένως the pleasure/gladness aspect, they can substitute for each other in contexts of willing reception or action.
In the other Testament 1 word
- שִׂמְחָה simchâh · H8057 · joy
- Hebrew noun for joy/gladness that, like שָׂשׂוֹן, appears in prepositional constructions (e.g., בְּשִׂמְחָה 'with joy') to express the adverbial sense of doing something gladly or with pleasure, functionally equivalent to Greek ἀσμένως.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Happily, gladly25.128
- Used in Acts 21:17 of the brothers in Jerusalem receiving Paul and his companions gladly.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adverb (for ἡσμενως; from ἥδομαι), with joy, gladly: Acts 2:41 (Rec.); . (In Greek…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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