Greek noun (feminine) · G2237
ἡδονή
hedonehay-don-ay'
pleasure
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hēdonḗ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2237is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2237
sensual delight; by implication, desire
The King James renders it: lust, pleasure.
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
hedone is rendered "pleasure". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in James, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 8:14The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
Luke 8:14ἡδονῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- pleasures3
- passions1
- pleasure1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- ἡδοναῖς2
- ἡδονῶν2
- ἡδονὴν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural2N-DPF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural2N-GPF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
Luke
one use
The seeds that fell among the thorns are those who hear, but as they go on their way, they are choked by the worries, riches, and pleasures of this life, and their fruit does not mature.
- ἡδονῶνhedononnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: pleasures
Titus
one use
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- ἡδοναῖςhedonaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: pleasures
James
two uses
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
- ἡδονῶνhedononnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: passions
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
- ἡδοναῖςhedonaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: pleasures
2 Peter
one use
The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
- ἡδονὴνhedonennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: pleasure
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.