gudason
Swedish
Etymology
From gud (“god”) + -a- + son (“son”).
Noun
gudason c
- a son of a god (or the gods)
- 1913, Erik Brate, transl., Hyndlas sång [The Lay of Hyndla][1], accessed at Runeberg.org, archived from the original on 26 November 2025:
- En blev född i urtiden, en gudason med gudakraft.
- One was born in times of old, a son of the gods with divine power.
- 1917, 1773 års bibelkommission [The Swedish Bible Commission of 1773], “Daniel 3:25”, in 1917 års kyrkobibel[2], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 26 November 2025:
- Och den fjärde ser så ut, som vore han en gudason.
- And the fourth looks like a son of the gods.
- (Judaism, Christianity) a son of God
- 1932, Hjalmar Söderberg, Den förvandlade messias [The Transformed Messiah]: Jesus Barabbas II[3], Albert Bonniers förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 26 November 2025:
- Både Septuaginta och Josephus […] har återgivit bene elohim med ἄγγελοι θεοῦ, »Guds änglar». För Josephus var således ängel och gudason samma sak.
- Both the Septuagint and Josephus has rendered bene elohim as ἄγγελοι θεοῦ, "God's angels." For Josephus, an angel and a son of God were thus the same thing.
- 2000, 1973 års bibelkommission [The Swedish Bible Commission of 1973], “Job 1:6”, in Bibel 2000[4], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 26 November 2025:
- En dag när gudasönerna trädde fram inför Herren var också Anklagaren med bland dem.
- One day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, the Accuser was also among them.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | gudason | gudasons |
| definite | gudasonen | gudasonens | |
| plural | indefinite | gudasöner | gudasöners |
| definite | gudasönerna | gudasönernas |