The corpus record

χαρμονή

charmone · ἡ

joy, delight

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Where it lives

Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Job 3 · 2.25/10k
Ion 2 · 2.19/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

joy, delight

= χάρμα I, joy, delight, esp. in pl., τέρφιν παλαιᾶν χαρμονᾶν E. Ph. 317 (lyr.), cf. Ion 1379, HF 384 (lyr.), 742 (lyr.).

II joy, delight

= χάρμα II, joy, delight, S. Aj. 559; also found in Prose, [βίον] ἄλυπόν τε καὶ ἄνευ χαρμονῶν Pl. Phlb. 43c; ὑπὸ τῆς χαρμονῆς X. Cyr. 1.4.22, cf. LXX Jb. 3.7, al., Plu. Suav. 2.1098c, Jul. Or. 2.56a.

In the wild

χαρμοναὶ · charmonai Euripides, Heracles 742–743
χαρμοναῖσιν · charmonaisin Euripides, Heracles 380–384
χαρμονῆς · charmonēs Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 409)
χαρμονάς · charmonas Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 910)
χαρμονᾶν · charmonan Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth (DIORISIS sentence 135)
χαρμονῶν · charmonōn Plato, Philebus 43

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Where it came from

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