Quick Definition
μάμμη, ης, ἡ n.f. a grandmother
Strong's Definition
a grandmother
Derivation: of natural origin ("mammy");
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.
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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.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
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+]