ΗΔΟΝΑΙΣ, ηδοναις
ĒDONAIS, ēdonais
Sounds Like: hay-do-NAIS
Translations: to pleasures, by pleasures, with pleasures, pleasures, a pleasure, delight, to delights, by delights, with delights, delights
From the root: ΗΔΟΝΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to pleasure, delight, or enjoyment. It is often used in a general sense to describe a feeling of satisfaction or gratification. In the provided form, it is in the dative plural, indicating that the pleasure is the indirect object of an action, or the means by which something is done (e.g., 'by means of pleasures' or 'to pleasures').
Inflection: Dative, Plural, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2237 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:39
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Mathetes
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 9:31
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
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, ΗΔΟΝΗ.
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.
- ΗΔΟΝ — pleasure, delight, a pleasure, a delight
- ΗΔΟΝΑΣ — pleasures, delights, desires
- ΗΔΟΝΑΣΩΣ — pleasurably, in a pleasurable manner
- ΗΔΟΝΗ — pleasure, a pleasure, delight, lust
- ΗΔΟΝΗΝ — pleasure, a pleasure, delight, enjoyment
- ΗΔΟΝΗΣ — (of) pleasure, (of) delight, (of) enjoyment
- ΗΔΟΝΙΚΟΥΣ — pleasurable, devoted to pleasure, sensual, voluptuous
- ΗΔΟΝΩΝ — of pleasures, of delights, of desires
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