ἥδιστα
most gladly
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
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Degree
- Superlative
- Expresses the greatest degree (“greatest,” “most”).
Every verse where G2236 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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 Corinthians 2 verses
- 2 Corinthians 12:9 ἥδιστα adv supl He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
- 2 Corinthians 12:15 ἥδιστα adv supl I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
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.
ηδιστα — transliterated hḗdista — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “most gladly.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in 2 Corinthians (100% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is 2 Corinthians 12:9. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ηδεως and ηδυοσμον. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2236 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Most gladly 1×, Will very gladly 1×
- American Standard Version: Most gladly 1×, Will most gladly 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gladly 1×, Will most gladly 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Most gladly 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2236 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2236 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2236 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2236 across 2 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.
- most gladly
Word origin
Derived from ηδεως (hēdéōs) (G2234) — gladly.
Neuter plural of the superlative of the same as G2234 ; with great pleasure : - most (very) gladly.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2236, 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.
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Shares the same root
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