2001 Translation

ĒDONĒN, ēdonēn

Sounds Like: hay-doh-NAYN

Translations: pleasure, a pleasure, delight, enjoyment

From the root: ΗΔΟΝΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to pleasure, delight, or enjoyment. It is often used to describe a feeling of satisfaction or gratification. In a sentence, it would typically function as the object of a verb or preposition, indicating what is being experienced or sought after.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G2237 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:119, 12:3

Codex Sinaiticus

• 4 Maccabees — 1:21, 1:22
• Wisdom — 16:20
• 2 Peter — 2:13

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 1:46, 2:60, 2:61, 2:64, 6:129, 13:232, 19:292, 19:293, 19:298
• Book 2 — 5:66, 5:80
• Book 3 — 1:28, 5:97, 12:275
• Book 4 — 3:36, 6:139, 6:141, 6:143, 8:251, 8:258
• Book 5 — 3:179
• Book 7 — 9:195
• Book 8 — 7:193, 8:214, 10:236, 11:277, 15:418
• Book 11 — 5:178
• Book 12 — 10:398
• Book 13 — 1:4
• Book 14 — 13:367
• Book 15 — 7:238, 9:319
• Book 16 — 2:15, 10:312, 11:402
• Book 17 — 5:115, 9:211, 11:309, 11:316
• Book 18 — 6:176, 6:231, 8:274, 8:289
• Book 19 — 1:43, 1:107, 2:173, 4:240

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:30, 27:3
• Book Two — 8:45, 16:15, 22:4
• Book Six — 5:45
• Book Seven — 4:9

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:8

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 15:5

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 4 Maccabees — 1:21, 1:22
• Wisdom — 16:20

The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments

• Mandate 10 — 3:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• 2 Peter — 2:13

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
• ΗΔΟΝΑΙΣ — to pleasures, by pleasures, with pleasures, pleasures, a pleasure, delight, to delights, by delights, with delights, delights
• ΗΔΟΝΑΣ — pleasures, delights, desires
• ΗΔΟΝΑΣΩΣ — pleasurably, in a pleasurable manner
• ΗΔΟΝΗ — pleasure, a pleasure, delight, lust
• 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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