ΗΔΙΟΝ, ηδιον
ĒDION, ēdion
Sounds Like: HEE-dee-on
Translations: sweeter, more pleasant, more gladly, more willingly, more agreeable
From the root: ΗΔΥΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Adverb
Explanation: This word is the comparative form of the adjective 'sweet' or 'pleasant'. As an adjective, it means 'sweeter' or 'more pleasant'. As an adverb, it means 'more gladly' or 'more willingly', indicating a greater degree of pleasure or readiness in an action. It is used to compare two things or actions, suggesting one is more desirable or agreeable than the other.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative; or Adverbial
Strong’s number: G2235 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 29:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Sirach — 22:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΗΔΥΣ.
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.
- ΗΔΕΙΑ — sweet, pleasant, delightful, a sweet (thing), a pleasant (thing), a delightful (thing)
- ΗΔΕΙΑΙ — pleasant, sweet, agreeable, delightful
- ΗΔΕΙΑΝ — sweet, pleasant, delightful, a sweet, a pleasant, a delightful
- ΗΔΕΙΑΣ — of sweet, of pleasant, of agreeable, of a sweet, of a pleasant, of an agreeable
- ΗΔΕΙΟΝ — pleasant, sweet, agreeable, a pleasant thing, a sweet thing, an agreeable thing
- ΗΔΕΣΙΝ — (to) pleasures, (to) delights, (to) sweet things, (to) pleasant things
- ΗΔΕΩ — sweet, pleasant, gladly, joyfully, with pleasure, agreeably
- ΗΔΕΩΝ — of pleasant things, of sweet things, of delightful things, pleasant, sweet, delightful
- ΗΔΕΩΣ — gladly, cheerfully, with pleasure, willingly
- ΗΔΗΤΩΝ — of sweet, of pleasant, of agreeable
- ΗΔΙ — sweet, pleasant, delightful, agreeable, a sweet, a pleasant
- ΗΔΙΑ — sweet, pleasant, delightful, agreeable
- ΗΔΙΑʼΣ — sweet, pleasant, delightful, a sweet thing, a pleasant thing, a delightful thing
- ΗΔΙΣ — sweet, pleasant, delightful, a sweet thing, a pleasant thing
- ΗΔΙΣΑΝ — they made sweet, they sweetened, they made pleasant
- ΗΔΙΣΤΑ — most gladly, most pleasantly, most sweetly, with the greatest pleasure
- ΗΔΙΣΤΗ — sweetest, most pleasant, most delightful, the sweetest, the most pleasant, the most delightful
- ΗΔΙΣΤΟΙΣ — to the sweetest, to the most pleasant, to the most agreeable
- ΗΔΙΣΤΟΝ — sweetest, most pleasant, most delightful, the sweetest, a sweetest thing
- ΗΔΙΣΤΟΣ — sweetest, most pleasant, most agreeable, a sweetest, a most pleasant, a most agreeable
- ΗΔΙΣΤΟΥ — of the sweetest, of the most pleasant, of a sweetest, of a most pleasant
- ΗΔΙΣΤΩ — (to) the sweetest, (to) the most pleasant, (to) the most delightful
- ΗΔΙΩ — sweeter, more pleasant, more agreeable
- ΗΔΙΩΝ — sweeter, more pleasant, more agreeable, a sweeter, a more pleasant, a more agreeable
- ΗΔΥ — sweet, pleasant, agreeable, delightful
- ΗΔΥΣ — sweet, pleasant, delightful, a sweet thing, a pleasant thing, a delightful thing
- ΗΔΥΤΕΡΑ — sweeter, more pleasant, a sweeter thing, a more pleasant thing
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