μακάριος

μακάριος — makários

μακάριος, μακαρία, μακάριον (poetic μάκαρ) (from Pindar, Plato down), blessed, happy: joined to names of God, 1Ti 1:11; 1Ti 6:15 (cf. μακαρες Θεοί in Homer and Hesiod); ἐλπίς, Tit 2:13; as a predicate, Act 20:35; 1Pe 3:14; 1Pe 4:14; ἡγοῦμαι τινα μακάριον, Act 26:2; μακαραριος ἐν τίνι, Jas 1:25. In congratulations, the reason why one is to be pronounced blessed is expressed by a noun or by a participle taking the place of the subject, μακάριος ὁ etc. (Hebrew פְּ אַשְׁרֵי, Psa 1:1; Deu 33:29, etc.) blessed the man, who etc. (Winer's Grammar, 551 (512f)): Mat 5:3-11; Luk 6:20-22; Joh 20:29; Rev 1:3; Rev 16:15; Rev 19:9; Rev 20:6; Rev 22:14; by the addition to the noun of a participle which takes the place of a predicate, Luk 1:45; Luk 10:23; Luk 11:27; Rev 14:13; followed by ὅς with a finite verb, Mat 11:6; Luk 7:23; Luk 14:15; Rom 4:7 f; the subject noun intervening, Luk 12:37; Luk 12:43; Luk 23:29; Jas 1:12; μακάριοι... ὅτι, Mat 13:16; Mat 16:17; Luk 14:14; followed by ἐάν, Joh 13:17; 1Co 7:40. (See Schmidt, chapter 187, 7.)