Quick Definition
μακαρισμός, οῦ, ὁ n.m. regarding as happy, blessed, or enviable
Strong's Definition
from 3106; beatification, i.e. attribution of good fortune
KJV Usage: blessedness
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -οῦ | μακαρίζω
25.118 · Attitudes and Emotions · Happy, Glad, Joyful
happiness a state of happiness, implying favorable circumstances In GAL 4:15 μακαρισμός clearly refers to a state of happiness which occurred in the past but which was no longer evident. It may therefore be necessary to indicate that the happiness in question is past, and accordingly, one may translate ‘you were so happy! What has happened?’ or ‘then you were so happy! What has happened to you now?’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μακαρισμός, -ov, 6, (μακαρίζω), declaration of blessedness: Ro. iv. 9; Gal. iv. 15; λέγειν τὸν pak. twos, to uller a declaration of blessedness upon one, a fuller way of saying μακαρίζειν τινά, to pronounce one blessed, Ro. iv. 6. (Plat. rep. 9 p. 591 d.; [Aristot. rhet. 1, 9, 34]; Plut. mor. p. 471 c.; eccles. writ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μακαρισμός makarismos 3x
a happy calling, the act of pronouncing happy, Rom. 4:6, 9; self-congratulation, Gal. 4:15*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* μακαρισμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(μακαρίζω),
a declaration of blessedness, felicitation: Ro 4:6, 9, Ga 4:15 (Plat., Arist.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μακαρισμός. On the difference between the Biblical ‘‘ declaration of blessedness”’ (Rom 45, Gal 415) and the ordinary Greek and Latin gratulatory expressions see Norden Agsostos Theos, p- 1oof., the monograph De veterum macarismis by ἃ. L. Dirichlet in Relzgionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbetten xiv. 4 (Giessen, 1914), and W. M. Ramsay CA’ xxxiii. p. 6, where it is pointed out that pakdptos, as distinguished trom μακαρίτης, tended to become characteristically Christian. See also Stob. Flor. T. I. 72 γίνεται δ᾽ ὁ μὲν ἔπαινος ἐπ᾿ Ns A | διασαφῆσαι, and P Strass I. 22? (ili/A.D.) μακρᾶς νομῆς Gpeta, ὃ δὲ μακαρισμὸς ἐπ᾽ εὐτυχίᾳ (cited by Field JVo‘es, Ρ- 154). The verbal μακαριστός occurs 267, in the rescript of Antiochus I., OGZS 38318 39, 108 (mid. i/B.c.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
μακαρισμός (makarismos) — blessedness. μᾰκᾰρ-ιστέον, one must deem happy, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]