hilaros

Strong’sG2431

joyous, cheerful

stem hilar-once in the New Testament1 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.

ἱλαρός, -ά, -όν

(< ἵλαος = ἵλεως, q.v.), [in LXX: Pr 19:12 (רָצוֹן) 22:8, Es 5:1, Jb 33:26, Si 13:26 26:4, III Mac 6:35*;]

cheerful, joyous: II Co 9:7 (Pr 22:8(9)(LXX)).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2431 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhil-ar-os'

propitious or merry ("hilarious"), i.e. prompt or willing

Fromfrom the same as G2436;

King Jamescheerful.

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

ἱλᾰρός [ῐ], ά, όν,
(ἵλαος) cheerful, merry, φέγγος NT+5th c.BC+, gracious, Refs 4th c.BC+; -ωτέρα ἀγγελία more cheerful news, Refs. adverb -ρῶςLXX+5th c.BC+
II of blood, quick-pulsing, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III of imitation gold, bright, Refs 3rd c.AD+ adverb ἱλαρῶς (to be read ἱλαρῷ)Refs

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.

cheerful1×

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	hilaros	hilaras	hilarem	hilarois	hilarais	hilareim
object accusative	hilaron1×ἱλαρὸν	hilaran		hilaroin	hilarain
direct address vocative	hilaror	hilarar		hilaroir	hilarair
of, belonging to genitive	hilarou	hilarau	hilareu	hilaroiu	hilaraiu	hilareiu
to, for dative	hilaro	hilara	hilare	hilaroi	hilarai	hilarei

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

hilarstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hilar 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hilaron“cheerful”objectaccusative singular1×

2 Corinthians 9:7… mē ek lupau ē ek anankau; hilaron gar doton agapatō tos theos.… or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.