Lexical Summary hadrotēs: thickness, abundance Original Word: ἁδρότηςTransliteration: hadrotēs Phonetic Spelling: (had-rot'-ace) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: thickness, abundance Meaning: thickness, abundance Strong's Concordance abundance. From hadros (stout); plumpness, i.e. (figuratively) liberality -- abundance. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 100: ἁδρότηςἁδρότης (Rec.st ἀδρ.), (ητος, ἡ, or better (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii. 417) ἁδροτής, (ῆτος (on the accent cf. Ebeling, Lex. Homer under the word; Chandler §§ 634, 635), (from ἁδρός thick, stout, full-grown, strong, rich (2 Kings 10:6, 11, etc.)), in Greek writings it follows the significance of the adjective ἁδρός; once in the N. T.: 2 Corinthians 8:20, bountiful collection, great liberality, (R. V. bounty). (ἁδροσύνη, of an abundant harvest, Hesiod ἐργ. 471.) |
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