ἡδύνω
sweeten, make pleasant
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἡδύνω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 24:5 ἡδύνω And they have departed like asses in the field, having gone forth on my account according to their own order: his bread is sweet to his little ones.
- Psalms 103:34 ἡδύνω Let my meditation be sweet to him: and I will rejoice in the Lord.
- Psalms 140:6 ἡδύνω Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
- Psalms 146:1 ἡδύνω Praise you⌃ the Lord: for psalmody is a good thing; let praise be sweetly sung to our God.
- Proverbs 13:19 ἡδύνω The desires of the godly gladden the soul, but the works of the ungodly are far from knowledge.
- Song of Solomon 7:7 ἡδύνω This is your greatness in your delights: you were made like a palm tree, and your breasts to cluster.
- Jeremiah 6:20 ἡδύνω Therefore do you⌃ bring me frankincense from Saba, and cinnamon from a land afar off? your whole burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices have not been pleasant to me.
- Hosea 9:4 ἡδύνω They have not offered wine to the Lord, neither have their sacrifices been sweet to him, but as the bread of mourning to them; all that eat them shall be defiled; for their bread for their soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord.
About this word
About this word
ἡδύνω (hēdýnō), “sweeten, make pleasant,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 8 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →