adjective
glukuem
Strong’sG1099
sweet
stem gluku-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 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.
γλυκύς, -εῖα, -ύ,
[in LXX chiefly for מָתֹוק;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1099 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgloo-koos'
sweet (i.e. not bitter nor salt)
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamessweet, fresh.
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
(-ῆαRefs 3rd c.BC+, sweet to the taste or smell, νέκταρ Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to ὀξύς, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to δριμύς, Refs 8th c.BC+, pleasant, delightful, ἵμερος, ὕπνος, Refs 8th c.BC+; γλυκύ [ἐστι], with infinitive, Refs 5th c.BC+
b of water, sweet, fresh, Refs 6th c.BC+; opposed to πικρός, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἁλμυρός, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 after Refs 8th c.BC+, of persons, sweet, dear, γλυκεῖα (variant{-ῆα}) μᾶτερ Refs 7th c.BC+: with infinitive, γ. φρὴν συμπόταισιν ὁμιλεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; also ὑπὲρ τῆς γλυκυτάτης πατρίδος τελευτῆσαι Refs 2nd c.AD+; ὦ γλυκύτατε my dear fellow, Refs 5th c.BC+; sometimes in bad sense, simple, silly, ὡς γ. εἶ! Refs 5th c.BC+; also applied κατ᾽ ἀντίφρασιν to a swine, Refs 2nd c.AD+; γλυκὺ πνεῖον, of mustard, Refs 4th c.BC+
II as substantive, ὁ γ. (i.e. οἶνος) grape-syrup, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.b of the eye of Polyphemus, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2 ἡ γ., ={γλυκύρριζα}, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 ἡ γ., ={χολή}, Refs 2nd c.BC+
III comparative and superlative γλυκίων Refs 8th c.BC+
IV adverb -κέωςRefs 2nd c.AD+, cf. Latin dulcis.)
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | glukuos | glukuas | glukuem4×γλυκὺ | glukuois | glukuais | glukueim |
| object accusative | glukuon | glukuan | glukuoin | glukuain | ||
| direct address vocative | glukuor | glukuar | glukuoir | glukuair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | glukuou | glukuau | glukueu | glukuoiu | glukuaiu | glukueiu |
| to, for dative | glukuo | glukua | glukue | glukuoi | glukuai | glukuei |
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
gluku 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
glukuem“fresh”subject or objectdirect singular4×
James 3:11… ek tau autau opau bruatō tem glukuem kai tem pikrem?Can both fresh water and salt water flow from …
James 3:12… poiara ē ampelas sukeim? oute halukem glukuem poiara hudem.… Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
Revelation 10:9… alla en te stome su eti glukuem hōs melitem.… your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
Revelation 10:10… en te stome mu hōs melitem glukuem; kai hote esthiama autem, pikranita tas …… ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But …