Quick Definition
regarding as happy, blessed, or enviable
Strong's Definition
beatification, i.e. attribution of good fortune
Derivation: from G3106 (μακαρίζω);
KJV Usage: blessedness
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μακαρισμός, μακαρισμου, ὁ (μακαρίζω), declaration of blessedness: Rom_4:9; Gal_4:15; λέγειν τόν μακαρισμόν τίνος, to utter a declaration of blessedness upon one, a fuller way of saying μακαρίζειν τινα, to pronounce one blessed, Rom_4:6. (Plato, rep. 9, p. 591 d.; (Aristotle, rhet. 1, 9, 34); Plutarch, mor., p. 471 c.; ecclesiastical writings.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μακαρισμός makarismos 3x
a happy calling, the act of pronouncing happy, Rom_4:6 ; Rom_4:9 ;
self-congratulation, Gal_4:15
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*μακαρισμός , -οῦ , ὁ
(μακαρίζω ),
a declaration of blessedness, felicitation: Rom_4:6 ; Rom_4:9 , Gal_4:15 ( Plat ., Arist .).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μακαρισμός [page 386]
On the difference between the Biblical declaration of blessedness ( Rom_4:6 , Gal_4:15 ) and the ordinary Greek and Latin gratulatory expressions see Norden Agonostos Theos, p. 100 f. , the monograph De veterum macarismis by G. L. Dirichlet in Religionsgeschichtlichc Versuche und Vorarbeiten xiv. 4 (Giessen, 1914), and W. M. Ramsay CR xxxiii. p. 6, where it is pointed out that μακάριος , as distinguished from μακαρίτης , tended to become characteristically Christian. See also Stob. Flor. T. I. 72 γίνεται δ᾽ ὁ μὲν ἔπαινος ἐπ᾽ ἀρετᾷ , ὁ δὲ μακαρισμὸς ἐπ᾽ εὐτυχίᾳ (cited by Field Notes , p. 154). The verbal μακαριστός occurs ter in the rescript of Antiochus I., OGIS 383 .16 .39, .108 (mid. i/B.C.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μακαρισμός "a pronouncing happy, blessing", Plat. , Arist.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μακαρισμός, -οῦ, ὁ
(μακαρίζω)
a declaration of blessedness, felicitation: Rom.4:6, 9, Gal.4:15 (Plat., Arist.).†
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