noun · feminine
agathōsunas
Strong’sG19
goodness
stem agathōsun-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† ἀγαθωσύνη (on the termination, v.s. ἁγιότης, and cf. WH, App., 152; MM, VGT, s.v.), -ης, ἡ
(< ἀγαθός), [in LXX for טוֹבָה, טוֹב, טוּב, only in Heb. bks.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G19 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidag-ath-o-soo'-nay
goodness, i.e. virtue or beneficence
Fromfrom G18;
King Jamesgoodness.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
goodness, kindness, LXX+NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | agathōsunas1×ἀγαθωσύνη | agathōsunais |
| object accusative | agathōsunan | agathōsunain |
| direct address vocative | agathōsunar | agathōsunair |
| of, belonging to genitive | agathōsunau2×ἀγαθωσύνης | agathōsunaiu |
| to, for dative | agathōsuna1×ἀγαθωσύνῃ | agathōsunai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
agathōsuna is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
agathōsunas“goodness”subjectnominative singular1×
Galatians 5:22… atō agapas, charas, eirēnas, makrothumias, chrēstotas, agathōsunas, pistias,… is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
agathōsunau“good”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Romans 15:14… vu, hoti kai autois mestois avō agathōsunau, plērorēntois pantau gnōsiau, dunorōntois kai allēloin …… that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to …
2 Thessalonians 1:11… theos nu kai plērateia pantan eudokian agathōsunau kai ergem pistiau en dunamia,… He will powerfully fulfill your every good desire and work of faith,
agathōsuna“goodness”to, fordative singular1×
Ephesians 5:9… gar karpos teu fōteu en panta agathōsuna kai dikaiosuna kai alētheia,… of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.