ἀγαθωσύνη
goodness
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G19 appears in the Book of 2 Thessalonians — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Thessalonians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun αγαθωσυνη centers on the idea of “goodness.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. Romans dominates its distribution — 1 of 4 verses. Debuting at Romans 15:14, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside αγαθος, αγαθοεργεω and αγαθοποιος. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G19 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Goodness 4×
- American Standard Version: Goodness 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Goodness 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Goodness 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G19 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G19 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G19 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G19 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- uprightness of heart and life, goodness, kindness
Word origin
Derived from αγαθος (agathós) (G18) — good.
From G18 ; goodness that is virtue or beneficence : - goodness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G19 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀγαθωσύνης agathōsýnēs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Romans 15:14 | 2 |
| ἀγαθωσύνη agathōsýnē | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Galatians 5:22 | 1 |
| ἀγαθωσύνῃ agathōsýnē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 5:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G19, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αγαθωσυνη appears 13 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 13 verses in 5 books.
- 13
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 13
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 9:16 ἀγαθωσύνη
- 2 Chronicles 24:16 ἀγαθωσύνη
- Ezra 19:25 ἀγαθωσύνη
- Psalms 51:5 ἀγαθωσύνη
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 ἀγαθωσύνη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G19) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 9:16 ἀγαθωσύνη Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands
- 2 Chronicles 24:16 ἀγαθωσύνη They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
- Ezra 19:25 ἀγαθωσύνη
- Ezra 19:35 ἀγαθωσύνη
- Ezra 23:31 ἀγαθωσύνη
- Psalms 51:5 ἀγαθωσύνη Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8 ἀγαθωσύνη There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.
- Ecclesiastes 5:10 ἀγαθωσύνη He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 5:17 ἀγαθωσύνη All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 ἀγαθωσύνη If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
- Ecclesiastes 6:6 ἀγαθωσύνη Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?
- Ecclesiastes 7:14 ἀγαθωσύνη In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.
- Ecclesiastes 9:18 ἀγαθωσύνη Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G19) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.