Word 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.)