ΓΛΥΚΥ, γλυκυ
GLYKY, glyky
Sounds Like: gly-KOO
Translations: sweet, pleasant, agreeable
From the root: ΓΛΥΚΥΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is sweet to the taste, but it can also refer to things that are pleasant or agreeable in a broader sense, such as sweet sleep or pleasant light. It is used to qualify nouns, indicating a desirable quality.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G1196 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:7
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 1:38
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 3:16
Justin Martyr
Pseudo-Baruch
- The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 4:15
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
- Mandate 5 — 1:5
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΛΥΚΥΣ.
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.
- ΓΛΥΚ — sweet, pleasant, delightful
- ΓΛΥΚΑΣΜΑ — sweet thing, a sweet thing, sweetness, a sweetness, sweet food, sweet drink, delight, a delight
- ΓΛΥΚΑΣΜΟΣ — sweetness, a sweet thing, a sweet taste
- ΓΛΥΚΕΑ — sweet, pleasant, a sweet thing, sweet things, pleasant things
- ΓΛΥΚΕΙΑ — sweet, pleasant, delightful, a sweet (thing/person)
- ΓΛΥΚΕΙΑΙ — sweet, pleasant, agreeable
- ΓΛΥΚΕΙΑΝ — sweet, a sweet (thing), pleasant, a pleasant (thing)
- ΓΛΥΚΕΙΑΣ — of sweet, of a sweet
- ΓΛΥΚΕΙΣ — sweet, pleasant, agreeable, sweet ones, pleasant ones
- ΓΛΥΚΕΟΣ — (of) sweet, (of) a sweet
- ΓΛΥΚΕΡΟΥ — of sweet
- ΓΛΥΚΕΣΙΝ — sweetness, a sweetness, pleasure, delight
- ΓΛΥΚΕΩΝ — of sweet, of the sweet, of sweet things
- ΓΛΥΚΙΑ — sweet, pleasant, delightful
- ΓΛΥΚΥΣ — sweet, pleasant, agreeable, a sweet, an agreeable
- ΓΛΥΚΥΤΑΤΗ — sweetest, most sweet
- ΓΛΥΚΥΤΑΤΩΝ — of the sweetest, of the most pleasant, of the most delightful
- ΓΛΥΚΥΤΕΡΑ — sweeter
- ΓΛΥΚΥΤΕΡΑΣ — (of) sweeter
- ΓΛΥΚΥΤΕΡΟΝ — sweeter, more sweet, a sweeter thing
- ΓΛΥΚΥΤΗΤΑ — sweetness, pleasantness, a sweetness, a pleasantness
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