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Strong's #19 - ἀγαθωσύνη
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- uprightness of heart and life, goodness, kindness
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ἀγαθωσύνη, ἡ,
goodness, kindness, LXX Judges 9:16, al., Romans 15:14, Ephesians 5:9.
ἀγαθωσύνη, (ης, ἡ (on its formation see Winers Grammar, 95 (90); WHs Appendix, p. 152), found only in Biblical and ecclesiastical writings, uprightness of heart and life (A. V. goodness): 2 Thessalonians 1:11; Galatians 5:22 (unless here it denote kindness, beneficence); Romans 15:14; Ephesians 5:9. (Cf. Trench, § lxiii.; Ellicott and Lightfoot on Galatians, the passage cited.)
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† ἀγαθωσύνη
(on the termination, see ἀγιότης , and cf. WH, App., 152; MM, VGT, s.v.), -ης , ἡ
(< ἀγαθός ),
[in LXX for H2896, H2898, only in Heb. bks.;]
goodness (representing "the kindlier, as δικαιοσύνη , the sterner element in the ideal character," AR, Ephesians 5:9; on its relation to χρηστότη s, v. Tr., Syn., § 63): Romans 15:14, Galatians 5:22, 2 Thessalonians 1:11.†
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The word is ";found only in bibl. and eccl. writers"; (Grimm-Thayer). But the abstract suffix -σύνη (on which cf. Brugmann-Thumb Griech. Gramm.4, p. 224) was productive in the Hellenistic period. About a dozen nouns occur in NT, and ἁγιωσύνη and μεγαλωσύνη come under the same condemnation in Grimm-Thayer : so would ταπεινοφροσύνη, but Thayer quotes Josephus and Epictetus against Grimm. Nägeli (p. 43) has ";profane"; warrant for ἁγιωσύνη, which is none the worse for being later than NT times. Any writer was free to coin an abstract of this sort, just as we can attach the suffix -ness to any adjective we please; and the absence of attestation signifies nothing that could carry any weight.
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