Quick Definition
a grandmother
Strong's Definition
a grandmother
Derivation: of natural origin ("mammy");
KJV Usage: grandmother
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μάμμη, μαμμης, ἡ,
1. in the earlier Greek writings mother (the name infants use in addressing their mother).
2. in the later writings ((Philo), Josephus, Plutarch, Appian, Herodian, Artemidorus Daldianus) equivalent to τήθη, grandmother (see Lob. ad Phryn., pp. 133-135 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 25)): 2Ti_1:5; 4Ma_16:9.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μάμμη mammē 1x
a mother; later, a grandmother, 2Ti_1:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** μάμμη , -ης , ἡ
(onomatop.),
[in LXX : 4Ma_16:9 * ;]
1. in cl ., a child's name for mother .
2. In late Gk . ( = cl ., τήθη ), a grandmother: ( LXX , l.c .), 2Ti_1:5 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μάμμη [page 387]
For the later sense of grandmother, as in 2Ti_1:5 (cf. 4Ma_16:9 ), cf. P Rein 49 .14 (A.D. 215 6) (= Chrest. I. p. 243 ) μου μητρ [ὸς καὶ τῆ ]ς μάμμης Αὐ [ρ ]ηλία [ς . See also the letter addressed by Epicurus to a child Ex Vol. Hercui. 176 .8 (iii/B.C.) (= Selections , p. 5) εὖ δὲ ποιε [ῖ ]ς καὶ σὺ ε [ἰ ὑ ]γιαίνεις καὶ ἡ μ [ά ]μμη [σ ]ου , it is well if you also and your grandmother are in good health, P Oxy XIV. 1644 .12 (B.C. 63 62) Μοσχίωνος κατὰ μητέρα μάμμηι Ἀρσινόηι , Arsinoe maternal grandmother of Moschion, ib. III. 496 .5 (A.D. 127) ἡ [τῆς ] γαμουμένης μάμμη , the grandmother of the bride, ib. I. 67 .16 (A.D. 338) ἀπὸ δικέου ( l. δικαίου ) κληρ [ονομιῶ ]ν τῆς ἡμετέρας μάμμης , by right of inheritance from my grandmother, and from the inscrr. Syll 381 (= .3 844 B) .6 (ii/iiiA.D.) ἡ πρὸς μητρὸς μάμμη Καλλίκλε [ια κα ]ὶ οἱ γονεῖς κτλ . The adj. μαμμικός is common, e.g. P Rein 46 .19 (A.D. 189) ὑπάρχει τε αὐτοῖς τὸ ἐπιβάλλο [ν ] μέρος οἰκ (ίας ) καὶ αὐλ (ῆς ) πατρικὸν καὶ μα̣μ̣μ̣ικόν , elles possθdent la part qui leur revient, dans la succession de leur pθre et de leur aοeule, d une maison et d une cour (Ed.), and for the form μαμμῷος (not in LS) see BGU I. 19 i. 7 (A.D. 135) where τὰ μαμμικά is corrected into τὰ μαμμῷα , the grandmother s property : cf. .15 al .. MGr μαμμή , midwife.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μάμμη μάμμη, ἡ, "mamma, mammy", a child's attempt to articulate "mother", Anth. :—so ἄττα, πάππας, τάτα, τέττα, "papa", for "father." "a grandmother", Plut.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μάμμη, -ης, ἡ
(onomatop.), [in LXX: 4Ma.16:9 * ;]
__1. in cl., a child's name for mother.
__2. In late Gk. (= cl., τήθη), a grandmother: (LXX, l.with), 2Ti.1:5.†
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