Greek adjective · G1099
γλυκύς
glykysgloo-koos'
sweet
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: glykýs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1099is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1099
sweet (i.e. not bitter nor salt)
The King James renders it: sweet, fresh.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
glykys is rendered "sweet". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in James, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.James 3:11Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
James 3:11γλυκὺ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in James.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- fresh2
- sweet2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- γλυκὺ3
- γλυκύ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular2A-ASN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular2A-NSN
James
two uses
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
- γλυκὺglukuadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fresh
My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
- γλυκὺglukuadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fresh
Revelation
two uses
And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
- γλυκὺglukuadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: sweet
So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.
- γλυκύglukuadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: sweet
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.