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G3125 μάμμη (mámmē)
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Quick Definition

μάμμη, ης, ἡ n.f. a grandmother

Strong's Definition

of natural origin ("mammy"); a grandmother

KJV Usage: grandmother

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, f. | -ης

10.19 · Kinship Terms · Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations

grandmother the mother of one’s own mother or father (with a possible connotation of affection) In a number of languages it is necessary to distinguish between the grandmother on one’s father’s side and the grandmother on one’s mother’s side. There is no positive indication in 2TI 1:5 as to the particular relationship involved, but one may assume that the grandmother Lois was the mother of Eunice, and therefore it would be the grandmother on the mother’s side.

2TI 1:5

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

μάμμη, -ns, ἡ, 1. in the earlier Grk. writ. mother (the name infants use in addressing their mother). 2. in the later writ. ([Philo], Joseph., Plut., App., Hdian., Artem.) i. q. τήθη, grandmother (see Lob. ad Phryn. pp. 133-135 [cf. W. 25]): 2 Tim. i. 5; 4 Mace. xvi. 9.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

μάμμη mammē 1x

a mother; later, a grandmother, 2 Tim. 1:5*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

** μάμμη, -ης, ἡ

(onomatop.), [in LXX: IV Mac 16:9*;]

in cl., a child's name for mother.

In late Gk. (= cl., τήθη), a grandmother: (LXX, IV Mac 16:9), II Ti 1:5.†

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

μάμμη (mammē) — grandmother. μάμμ-η, ἡ, child's word for mother, ὦ μάμμη [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. mother's breast, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

III. later, grandmother, [LXX+1st c.BC+]

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