UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: μάμμη; -ης

Sense 1: grandmother

Semantic entry: 10.19

Semantic domains: Kinship Terms

Subdomains: Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations

Definition: the mother of one’s own mother or father (with a possible connotation of affection)

Notes: 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 OET TI2 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.

Show passage in OET: TI2 1:5

OET-RV TI2 1:5

5 I recall your faith without hypocrisy, which I first noticed in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunike, and which I’m sure is also in you.

OET-LV TI2 1:5

5 having _taken remembrance of _the unhypocritical faith in you, which dwelt first in the grandmother of _you, Lōis, and in _the mother of _you, Eunikaʸ, and I _have _been _persuaded that also in you it _is.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

μάμμη

Form 1

Sense 1: grandmother