μακάριοι (makarioi)

μακάριοι is an Ancient Greek form of μακάριος, meaning “blessed, happy”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of Μακάριος, “Makarios — a Spartan, was one of the three commanders of the Peloponnesian force which was sent to aid the…”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or adjective.

Found 100 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Numa 20.7: … ν δύναμιν ἐγκρατῆ καὶ ὑπερδέξιον τῆς κακίας τὴν ἀρετὴν καταστῆσαι. μακάριος μὲν γὰρ αὐτός ὁ σώφρων ὡς ἀληθῶς, μακάριοι δὲ οἱ συνήκοοι τῶν ἔκ τοῦ σωφρονοῦντος στόματος ἰόντων λόγων.

New Testament, Matthew 5.3: ΜΑΚΑΡΙΟΙ οἱ πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι, ὅτι αὐτῶν ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.

New Testament, Luke 6.20: Καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπάρας τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ εἰς τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ ἔλεγεν Μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοί, ὅτι ὑμετέρα ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ.

All forms of μακάριος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.