Word Summary
authadēs: self-pleasing
Original Word: αὐθάδηςTransliteration: authadēs
Phonetic Spelling: (ow-thad'-ace)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: self-pleasing
Meaning: self-pleasing
Strong's Concordance
self-willed.
From autos and the base of hedone; self-pleasing, i.e. Arrogant -- self-willed.
see GREEK autos
see GREEK hedone
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 829: αὐθάδηςαὐθάδης,
ἀυθαδες (from
αὐτός and
ἥδομαι),
self-pleasing, self-willed, arrogant:
Titus 1:7;
2 Peter 2:10. (
Genesis 49:3, 7;
Proverbs 21:24. In Greek writings from
Aeschylus and
Herodotus down.) (
Trench, § xciii.)