greatest
Meizoteros marks a comparison of joy, expressing that no joy exceeds hearing children walk in truth.
The attested use expresses a comparison in which the speaker’s joy is presented as unsurpassed by other joys when hearing that his children walk in truth.
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Joy surpassing other joys · dominant
In 3 John 1:4, the accusative singular feminine comparative form occurs in the statement that the speaker has no greater joy than hearing his children walking in truth. The APB renders the clause, “I do not have greater joy than these things,” framing the term within that comparison.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In 3 John 1:4, the APB presents the comparison with “greater joy.” The term’s exact English correspondence is inferred from the comparative clause rather than assumed from the wording alone.