κομψότερον
kompsóteron · G2866 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be better, to be in better health
The state of being in better health after a previous state of relative lack of health
ExamplesJohn 4:52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- χείρων cheírōn · G5501 · worse, very bad
- χείρων is the direct lexical opposite as the comparative adjective 'worse,' contrasting with κομψότερον 'better' in contexts of health condition
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To be better, to be in better health23.135
- κομψότερον describes improving health, becoming convalescent. John 4:52 recounts the official inquiring “at what hour he began to get better,” the κομψότερον naming this turn toward recovery in his son’s illness.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon neuter comparitive of the adjective κομψός (from κομέω to take care of, tend) neat,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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