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ἀκριβέστατος

akribéstatos · G196 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. accurate, accurately, strict, strictly

    Pertaining to strict conformity to a norm or standard, involving both detail and completeness

    Examples

    Acts 26:5 since they have known about me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion.

How it’s used

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When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Accurate, accurately, strict, strictly72.19
In Acts 26:5, Paul recalls that he “lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest (akribestátēn) sect of our religion,” using the superlative to describe the most rigorous party within Judaism.
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἄκρον ákron · G206 · extreme boundary, final limit, end · 6×ἀκροβυστία akrobystía · G203 · being uncircumcised, the foreskin not cut off, uncircumcised · 20×ἀκριβῶς akribōs · G199 · accurate, accurately, strict · 9×ἀκριβόω akribóō · G198 · to learn exactly, to find out accurately, to ascertain · 2×ἀκρογωνιαῖος akrogōniaîos · G204 · cornerstone, important stone · 2×ἀκρίβεια akríbeia · G195 · strictness, strict conformance to, accurateness · 1×ἀκριβέστατοςakribéstatos · G196ἀκροθίνιον akrothínion · G205 · the best of the booty, the finest spoils, the most valuable plunder · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ές, genitive (οῦς, exact, careful. The neuter comparitive is used adverbially in Acts…
(ές, genitive (οῦς, exact, careful. The neuter comparitive is used adverbially in Acts 18:26; Acts 23:15, Acts 23:20; Acts 24:22; ἡ ἀκριβεστάτη αἵρεσις the straitest sect i. e. the most precise and rigorous in interpreting the Mosaic law, and in observing even the more minute precepts of the law and of tradition, Acts 26:5. (From Herodotus down.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Accurate, Inaccurate1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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