ἡδύς
sweet, pleasant
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἡδύς appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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.
- Esther 1:7 ἡδύς gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.
- Proverbs 12:11 ἡδύς He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonor in his own strong holds.
- Proverbs 14:23 ἡδύς With every one who is careful there is abundance: but the pleasure-taking and indolent shall be in lack.
- Song of Solomon 2:14 ἡδύς You are my dove, in the shelter of the rock, near the wall: show me your face, and cause me to hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is beautiful.
- Isaiah 3:24 ἡδύς And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and you shall be left alone, and shall be levelled with the ground.
- Isaiah 44:16 ἡδύς Half thereof he burns in the fire, and with half of it he bakes loaves on the coals; and having roasted flesh on it he eats, and is satisfied, and having warmed himself he says, I am comfortable, for I have warmed myself, and have seen the fire.
- Jeremiah 38:26 ἡδύς Therefore I awake, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
About this word
About this word
ἡδύς (hēdýs), “sweet, 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 7 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 →