Gloss
pleasure, desire, enjoyment, usually with a negative sense
Forms of the word
Dictionary
ἡδονή, ῆς, ἡ
Greek transliteration
hēdonē
Simplified transliteration
hedone
Numbers
Strong's number
2237
GK Number
2454
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
5
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-1b
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for ἡδονή
| Luke 8:14 | As for what fell among the thorns — these are the ones who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures (hēdonōn | ἡδονῶν | gen pl fem) of life, and they do not bring fruit to maturity. |
| Titus 3:3 | For once we ourselves also were foolish, disobedient, being led astray, being enslaved by desires and various pleasures (hēdonais | ἡδοναῖς | dat pl fem), living a life of evil and envy, detestable, hating one another. |
| James 4:1 | What accounts for the quarrels and disputes among you? Is it not this — your desires (hēdonōn | ἡδονῶν | gen pl fem) that are at war in your members? |
| James 4:3 | You ask and do not receive because you ask for the wrong reason, that you can spend it on your pleasures (hēdonais | ἡδοναῖς | dat pl fem). |
| 2 Peter 2:13 | suffering harm as the reward for the harm they have done. They consider indulgence (hēdonēn | ἡδονήν | acc sg fem) in the daytime a pleasure. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceitful pleasures while they feast with you. |
