βαρύτιμος
barýtimos · G927 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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valuable, expensive
Pertaining to being of great value or worth, implying in some contexts a monetary scale
ExamplesMatthew 26:7 a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very expensive perfume, and she poured it on His head as He was reclining at the table.
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 2 words
- πολυτελής polytelḗs · G4185 · valuable, expensive
- Both terms describe something of exceptionally high cost or value, converging directly on this sense of costliness — functioning as interchangeable intensifiers describing expensive objects.
- πολύτιμος polýtimos · G4186 · valuable, expensive
- Both terms express extreme value or costliness, formed with the same root (τιμή, value/price) but different intensifying prefixes. The attestation for βαρύτιμος is limited to a single occurrence, while πολύτιμος appears more broadly, but the semantic overlap in contexts of precious items and perfume suggests genuine interchangeability within the register of describing costly objects.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Valuable, expensive65.3
- Used of an item of great monetary worth, as of the very costly perfume poured on Jesus' head in Matthew 26:7.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βαρυτιμον (βαρύς and τιμή), of weighty (i. e. great) value, very precious, costly: Mt…
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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