ὡραῖος
hōraîos · G5611 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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beautiful, lovely
Pertaining to being beautiful, often with the implication of appropriateness
ExamplesMatthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
Acts 3:2 And a man who had been unable to walk from birth was being carried, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order for him to beg for charitable gifts from those entering the temple grounds.
Acts 3:10 and they recognized him as being the very one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg for charitable gifts, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
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timely, happening at the right time
Pertaining to a point of time which is particularly appropriate
ExamplesRomans 10:15 But how are they to preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written: “HOW BEAUTIFUL ARE THE FEET OF THOSE WHO BRING GOOD NEWS OF GOOD THINGS!”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὅστιςwhoever, whichever, whatever 1
- πούςfoot 1
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
- καλός kalós · G2570 · good, fine, praiseworthy
- Greek adjective meaning beautiful, good, fair; closely overlaps with ὡραῖος in denoting beauty and aesthetic excellence, though καλός is more general while ὡραῖος carries the nuance of timely or seasonable beauty
Contrasting words 1 word
- αἰσχρός aischrós · G150 · disgraceful, shameful
- Greek adjective meaning ugly, shameful, base; the direct lexical opposite of ὡραῖος in its sense of beautiful/fair, denoting what is aesthetically or morally repulsive
In the other Testament 1 word
- יָפֶה yâpheh · H3303 · beautiful, handsome, proper
- Hebrew adjective meaning beautiful, fair, comely; serves as a direct translation equivalent for the beauty sense of ὡραῖος (as in Acts 3:2, 10 'Beautiful Gate')
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Timely, happening at the right time67.3
- Acts 3:10 recounts that the people recognized the healed man “as being the very one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg for charitable gifts, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him”.
- Beautiful, lovely79.10
- Acts 3:2 describes “the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful”, where a man unable to walk from birth was set down every day to beg.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὡραία, ὡραῖον (from ὥρα, 'the bloom and vigor of life,' 'beauty' in the Greek writings,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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