ἈΓΑΘΟΣ, ἀγαθος
AGATHOS, agathos
Sounds Like: ah-gah-THOS
Translations: good, a good thing, good, useful, beneficial, upright, virtuous, kind
From the root: ἈΓΑΘΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone as good in various senses. It can refer to moral goodness, something that is beneficial or useful, or something that is pleasant or agreeable. It is often used to describe the character of God or a person's virtuous actions.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0018 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 4:12
Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Rome
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 3:49, 8:263
- Book 6 — 4:45
- Book 7 — 1:9
- Book 8 — 11:273
- Book 9 — 6:132, 8:178, 10:216
- Book 12 — 6:171, 6:224, 9:358
- Book 14 — 7:107, 10:251
- Book 18 — 9:335
- Book 20 — 3:64
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 9:66
Justin Martyr
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 8:8
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Samuel — 1:8, 9:2, 16:12, 16:18, 29:6, 29:9, 29:10
- 2 Samuel — 18:27
- 2 Kings — 5:12, 20:19
- 2 Chronicles — 30:18
- Nehemiah — 5:9
- Judith — 11:8
- Tobit — 5:22, 5:22
- 1 Maccabees — 10:19
- Psalms — 72:1, 117:1, 117:2, 117:3, 117:29, 134:3
- Psalms of Solomon — 3:2
- Proverbs — 6:11, 13:2, 13:22, 14:14, 24:49, 28:21
- Ecclesiastes — 4:3, 4:9, 4:13, 7:27, 9:2, 9:4
- Song of Solomon — 7:9
- Wisdom — 8:15, 8:20
- Sirach — 13:24, 14:5, 29:14
- Isaiah — 39:8, 63:7
- Lamentations — 3:25
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 4:9
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 12:35, 19:17, 20:15
- Mark — 10:18
- Luke — 6:45, 18:19, 23:50
- John — 7:12
- Acts — 11:24
- Ephesians — 4:29
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 3:8
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
- ἈΓΑΘΟΙ — good, useful, beneficial, excellent, a good one
- 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
- 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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