ἈΓΑΘΟΙ, ἀγαθοι
AGATHOI, agathoi
Sounds Like: ah-gah-THOY
Translations: good, useful, beneficial, excellent, a good one
From the root: ἈΓΑΘΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something as inherently good, beneficial, or excellent in nature or quality. It can refer to moral goodness, practical usefulness, or high quality. It is often used to describe people, things, or actions that are considered virtuous or advantageous.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0018 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:43
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 21:4
Clement of Alexandria
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 2:69, 19:282
- Book 3 — 2:42, 4:71
- Book 4 — 2:17
- Book 5 — 1:95, 5:200
- Book 6 — 4:67
- Book 8 — 10:248
- Book 10 — 10:188
- Book 12 — 2:53
- Book 13 — 9:260
- Book 14 — 8:146
- Book 19 — 1:17
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Samuel — 25:15
- 2 Samuel — 15:3
- 2 Chronicles — 12:12, 19:3
- Tobit — 5:14
- Proverbs — 14:22, 15:15
- Ecclesiastes — 4:9
- Song of Solomon — 1:2
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΓΑΘΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΓΑΘΑ — good things, goods, benefits, blessings, advantages
- ἈΓΑΘΑΙΣ — good, useful, noble, virtuous, excellent, beneficial
- ἈΓΑΘΑΣ — good, excellent, useful, beneficial
- ἈΓΑΘΕ — good, a good one, O good one
- ἈΓΑΘΗ — good, a good thing, virtuous, useful, excellent
- ἈΓΑΘΗΣ — good, (of) good, (of) a good
- ἈΓΑΘΟΙΔΕ — good, noble, useful, and good, but good
- ἈΓΑΘΟΙΣ — (to) good, (for) good, (with) good, (by) good, (to) beneficial, (for) beneficial, (with) beneficial, (by) beneficial, (to) virtuous, (for) virtuous, (with) virtuous, (by) virtuous
- ἈΓΑΘΟΝ — good, a good thing, benefit, advantage, what is good
- ἈΓΑΘΟΣ — good, a good thing, good, useful, beneficial, upright, virtuous, kind
- ἈΓΑΘΟΥ — of good, of a good thing, of a good person
- ἈΓΑΘΟΥΣ — good, good ones, good things
- ἈΓΑΘΩ — good, a good thing, a good person, good things, of good things, to good things
- ἈΓΑΘΩΝ — of good, of good things, of good people, of benefits
- ἈΓΑΘΩΤΑΤΟΝ — best, most good, most beneficial, the best, a best
- ἈΓΑΘΩΤΕΡΑ — better, more good, a better, a more good
- ἈΓΑΘΩΤΕΡΟΣ — better, more good
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