ΗΔΙΣΤΟΝ, ηδιστον
ĒDISTON, ēdiston
Sounds Like: HAY-dis-ton
Translations: sweetest, most pleasant, most delightful, the sweetest, a sweetest thing
From the root: ΗΔΥΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is the superlative form of the adjective 'sweet' or 'pleasant'. It means 'sweetest', 'most pleasant', or 'most delightful'. It is used to describe something that is the most agreeable or enjoyable among a group. For example, it could describe the sweetest taste, the most pleasant sound, or the most delightful experience.
Inflection: Superlative, Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G2234 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
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
- ΗΔΙΟΝ — sweeter, more pleasant, more gladly, more willingly, more agreeable
- 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
- 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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