Quick Definition
ἡδέως Adv gladly, pleasantly
Strong's Definition
adverb from a derivative of the base of 2237; sweetly, i.e. (figuratively) with pleasure
KJV Usage: gladly
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἡδέως, adv., (fr. ἡδύς sweet, vleasant), with pleasure, gladly: Mk. vi. 20; xii. 37; 2 Οὐ. xi. 19. [From Suph., Plat. down. |
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἡδέως hēdeōs 5x
with pleasure, gladly, willingly, Mk. 6:20; 12:37; 2 Cor. 11:19
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἡδέως adv.
(< ἡδύς, sweet), [in LXX: Pr 3:24 (ערב), etc.;]
gladly, with pleasure: Mk 6:20 12:37, II Co 11:19; superlat., ἥδιστα, very gladly (Bl., § 11, 3), II Co 12:9, 15.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἡδέως write to you about our business” (Ed.): cf. the use of a perf. with a pres. sense in Ac 26? (but not Phil 37). The unusually strong sense of ‘‘ esteem” required by the verb in ἡγοῦ μάλιστα τοὺς πατρῴους καὶ σέ[β]ου Ἶσιν Σαρᾶπιν κτλ. The original sense of /eadinzg may still be seen, even as late as P Oxy I. 128 verso} (vi/vii A.D.) ἡγείσθω τῆς ἔπιστ[ο]λῆς, ‘“let it stand in the forefront of the letter.” But the would-be-literary taint is on this document: 7. I. 55° (A.D. 283) ἀπὸ ἡκουμένου (1. ἡγουμένου) πυλῶνος yupvaσίου ἐπὶ ν[ότ]ον, ‘‘leading southwards,” is at least free from this reproach. The ‘‘ambiguous title’ ἡγούμενος (cf. Ac 15%) occurs, as GH note on P Fay 1108 (a.p. 94), in very different senses. Thus it is used absolutely in P Fay 110 Δς. and in P Oxy I. 43 recto’ 14 (A.D. 295). It may denote a superior, as P Grenf IT. 439 (A.D. 92) ἡγούμενος yepSlov, a kind of ‘‘sheikh”’ of the weavers (Edd.), 26. 67% (A.D. 237) (= Selections, p- 108) ἡγούμενος συνόδου κώϊμη]ς Βακχιάδος, ‘* president of the village council of Bacchias,” P Oxy VII. 1020° (A.D. 198-201) ὃ ἡγούμενος] τοῦ ἔθνους, ‘‘the praefect of the province” (Ed.); or a subordinate, as P Oxy II. 204}° (A.D. 22) (= Selections, p. 35) 6] μὲν ἡγούμενος τοῦ στρα[τ]ἡγοῦ, ‘‘ the marshal of the strategus.”’ For the religious use of the title (cf. Heb 137) cf. P Tebt 11. 525 (c. A.D. 1) a fragment which commences—IIaets ἡγ(ούμενος) ἱερέων KTA., P Lond 2813 (A Ὁ. 66) (= II. p. 66) where the death of a priest is notified —tyoupévois te[péwv, and the epitaph from Laodicea, belonging to the latter part of iv/A.D., in which a woman Doudousa is described (regardless of gender) as t(yow)pevos τῆς ayelas [kt] καθαρᾶς τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ ἐκλησείας, ‘‘ Hegoumenos of the holy pure Church of God” (see Ramsay Zuke, p. 400). As an ecclesiastical title it passed into Arabic in later times (Studia Sinartica, xii. p. 52). MGr (ἡ)γούμενος, ‘‘ abbot.” Since Grimm assumes that ἡγέομαι is akin to ἄγω, it may be worth while to observe that the harmless necessary 4 really does matter in etymology. It would have been more to the point to compare the English seeé# and the Latin sagio, originally ‘‘follow the track” in hunting, hence “perceive ’’: cf. Boisacq s.v.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἡδέως (hēdeōs) — gladly. Included with: ἡδύς, ἡδεῖα, ἡδύ, ἡδὺς ἀϋτμή (as feminine) once in [Refs 8th c.BC+]: Doric dialect ἁδύς [ᾱ], Boeotian dialect neuter ϝαδού (written γάδου) conjecture in [Refs 6th c.BC+] (compare proper name ϝαδιούλογος [Refs], Elean βᾱδύς (which see): irregular accusative ἁδέα for ἡδύν [Refs 3rd c.BC+], superlative ἥδιστος [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡδύτατος[Refs 1st c.AD+]
I. pleasant to the taste, adverb (see. above),compare ἥδομαι. [ἥδῐον [Refs 5th c.BC+] (Sanskrit svādús, Latin suāvis.)