Quick Definition
sweet
Strong's Definition
sweet (i.e. not bitter nor salt)
Derivation: of uncertain affinity;
KJV Usage: sweet, fresh
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
γλυκύς, γλυκεῖα, γλυκύ, sweet: Jas_3:11 (opposed to πικρόν); 12 (opposed to ἁλυκόν); Rev_10:9 (10). (From Homer down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
γλυκύς glykys 4x
sweet, Jas_3:11-12 ; Rev_10:9-10
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
γλυκύς , -εῖα , -ύ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H4966 ,;]
Jas_3:11-12 ; opposed to πικρόν G4089 , ἁλυκόν G252 , Rev_10:9-10 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
γλυκύς [page 127]
The neuter γλυκύ could denote some kind of sweet wine. Thus P Oxy II. 234 ii. 6 (ii/iii A.D. medical prescriptions) λεάνας διεὶς γλυκεῖ , soften by diluting with raisin wine (Edd.); cf. ib. VIII. 1142 .16 (late iii/A.D.) γλ ]ύκιον ῥοιτικόν , pomegranate wine (Ed.), and P Lond 239 .13 ( c. A.D. 346) (= II. p. 298) γλυκοιδίων ὀμφακηρά (see note). BGU IV. 1118 .16 (B.C. 22) and 1120 .15 (B.C. 5) have πράσου γλυκέως . Ib. II. 424 .4 (ii/iii A.D.) ἀλλὰ πάντοτε τὰ τῶν γονέων γλυγύτερά (= γλυκ .) ἐστιν . The rest of our papyrus citations are in superlative, which is very common as a term of affection. Thus P Oxy I. 33 i. 13 (late ii/A.D.) κλέος σοι ἐστὶν ὑπὲρ τῆς γλυκυτάτης σου πατρίδος τελευτῆσαι , ib. VI. 907 .3 (A.D. 276) τέκνα μου γλυκύτατα , ib. 935 .22 (iii/A.D.) ἄσπασαι πολλὰ τὸν γλυκύτατον ἀδελφὸν Ἁρποκρατίωνα , P Giss I. 22 .5 (early ii/A.D.) εὔχομαι . . . τὴν [γλυκυ ]τάτην σου ὄψιν προσκυ [νῆσαι , and from the inscriptions OGIS 526 .4 τὴν γλυκυτάτην καὶ σεμνοτάτην σύνβιόν μου . Ramsay Luke , p. 374 f. refers to a Lycaonian inscription in which the application of the phrase τὸν γλυκύτατον καὶ πάντων φίλον to a bishop (ὁ μακάριος πάπας ) points, he thinks, to an early Christian period when epithets were not so religious and stereotyped as later. He compares a Christian inscription of Rome (A.D. 238) in which a father describes his son who died at the age of seven as γλυκύτερον φωτὸς καὶ ζοῆς , dearer than light and life. Γλυκύς survives in MGr, partly with change of flexion : see Thumb Handb. p. 70. There are also many derivatives noted in his glossary.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
γλυκύς "sweet", Il. , etc.:—metaph. "sweet, delightful", Hom. , etc.:— γλυκύ ἐστι c. inf., Aesch. , etc. of water, "sweet, fresh", opp. to πικρός, Hdt. after Hom. , of persons, "sweet, dear", Soph. ; ὦ γλυκύτατε "my dear fellow", Ar. :—sometimes in bad sense, "simple, silly", ὡς γλυκὺς εἶ! Plat.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
γλυκύς, -εῖα, -ύ,
[in LXX chiefly for מָתוֹק ;]
Jas.3:11, 12; opposite to πικρόν, ἁλυκόν, Rev.10:9, 10.†
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