πολύτιμος
polýtimos · G4186 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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valuable, expensive
Pertaining to being of great value or worth, implying in some contexts a monetary scale
ExamplesMatthew 13:46 and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold everything that he had and bought it.
John 12:3 Mary then took a pound of very expensive perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
1 Peter 1:7 so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which perishes though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- βαρύτιμος barýtimos · G927 · valuable, expensive
- Both πολυτίμητος and βαρύτιμος denote extreme value or costliness; they share the root τιμή (“value, price”) combined with different intensifying prefixes.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Valuable, expensive65.3
- The adjective likewise describes something of great value or price. Matthew's parable of the pearl of great price uses this term: “and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold everything that he had and bought it” (Matthew 13:46).
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πολύτιμον (πολύς, τιμή), very valuable, of great price: Mt 13:46; Mt 26:7 L T Tr marginal…
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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