Greek adjective · G4185
πολυτελής
polytelespol-oo-tel-ace'
valuable
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: polytelḗs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4185is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4185
extremely expensive
The King James renders it: costly, very precious, of great price.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
polyteles is rendered "valuable". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 14:3While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.
Mark 14:3πολυτελοῦς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Mark.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- costly1
- of great price1
- of great worth1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πολύς | polys | much | Uses367 |
| πολύτιμος | polytimos | valuable | Uses3 |
| πολυλογία | polylogia | wordiness | Uses1 |
| πολυμερῶς | polymeros | little by little | Uses1 |
| πολυτρόπως | polytropos | in many ways | Uses1 |
| πολυποίκιλος | polypoikilos | manifold | Uses1 |
| πολύσπλαγχνος | polysplanchnos | very compassionate | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πολυτελεῖ1
- πολυτελές1
- πολυτελοῦς1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1A-DSM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1A-GSF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1A-NSN
Mark
one use
While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.
- πολυτελοῦςpolutelousadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of great price
1 Timothy
one use
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
- πολυτελεῖpoluteleiadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: costly
1 Peter
one use
but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
- πολυτελέςpolutelesadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: of great worth
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.