adjective
hēdistem
Strong’sG2236
most gladly, pleasantly
stem hēdist-2 times in the New Testament0 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.
ἥδιστα, v.s. ἡδέως.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2236 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhay'-dis-tah
with great pleasure
Fromneuter plural of the superlative of the same as G2234;
King Jamesmost (very) gladly.
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
(as feminine) once in Refs 8th c.BC+: Doric dialect ἁδύς [ᾱ], Boeotian dialect neuter ϝαδού (written γάδου) conjecture in Refs 6th c.BC+ (compare proper name ϝαδιούλογος Refs, Elean βᾱδύς (which see): irregular accusative ἁδέα for ἡδύν Refs 3rd c.BC+, superlative ἥδιστος Refs 8th c.BC+; ἡδύτατοςRefs 1st c.AD+
I pleasant to the taste, adverb (see. above),compare ἥδομαι. [ἥδῐον Refs 5th c.BC+ (Sanskrit svādús, Latin suāvis.)
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 | hēdistos | hēdistas | hēdistem | hēdistois | hēdistais | hēdisteim |
| object accusative | hēdiston | hēdistan | hēdistoin | hēdistain | ||
| direct address vocative | hēdistor | hēdistar | hēdistoir | hēdistair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | hēdistou | hēdistau | hēdisteu | hēdistoiu | hēdistaiu | hēdisteiu |
| to, for dative | hēdisto | hēdista | hēdiste | hēdistoi | hēdistai | hēdistei |
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
hēdist 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
hēdisteim2×
2 Corinthians 12:9“most gladly”… tas gar dunamias en asthenia telotō. hēdisteim oun mallon kauchemi en tai astheniai …… for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of …
2 Corinthians 12:15mis de hēdisteim dapanami kai ekdapanimi huper taiu psuchaiu …… sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If …