ἀστεῖος
asteîos · G791 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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beautiful, attractive
Pertaining to being beautiful or attractive in terms of being well-formed
ExamplesActs 7:20 “At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful to God. He was nurtured for three months in his father’s home.
Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παιδίονchild 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 2 words
- ὡραῖος hōraîos · G5611 · beautiful, lovely, timely
- Greek adjective denoting beauty and attractiveness, particularly physical beauty; overlaps substantially with ἀστεῖος in the sense of 'beautiful' or 'fair to look upon'
- καλός kalós · G2570 · good, fine, praiseworthy
- Common Greek adjective for beauty and attractiveness that can describe physical appearance; broader in range but overlaps with ἀστεῖος in contexts of physical beauty
Contrasting words 1 word
- αἰσχρός aischrós · G150 · disgraceful, shameful
- Greek adjective denoting what is shameful, base, or ugly; the lexical opposite of beautiful/attractive when ἀστεῖος refers to physical appearance
In the other Testament 1 word
- יָפֶה yâpheh · H3303 · beautiful, handsome, proper
- Standard Hebrew adjective for beauty/attractiveness, the natural translation equivalent for ἀστεῖος in contexts describing physical beauty (e.g., Moses in Acts 7:20, Hebrews 11:23)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Beautiful, attractive79.11
- Used of physical attractiveness, as of the infant Moses described as beautiful to God in Acts 7:20 and as a beautiful child in Hebrews 11:23.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀστεῖον (ἄστυ a city); 1. of the city; of polished manners (opposed to ἄγροικος rustic),…
1. of the city; of polished manners (opposed to ἄγροικος rustic), genteel (from Xenophon, and Plato down).
2. elegant (of body), comely, fair (Judith 11:23; Aristaenet. 1, 4, 1 and 19, 8): of Moses (Ex 2:2), Heb 11:23; with τῷ Θεῷ added, unto God, God being judge, i. e. truly fair, Acts 7:20; cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 4 a., p. 212 (199); (248 (232)); Buttmann, 179 (156); (Philo, vit. Moys. i., § 3, says of Moses γεννηθείς ὁ παῖς εὐθύς ὄψιν ἐνεφηνεν ἀστειοτεραν ἤ κατ' ἰδιωτην). (Cf. Trench, § cvi.)
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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