Greek adjective · G4186
πολύτιμος
polytimospol-oot'-ee-mos
much revered (Menand.).; very costly, very precious
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: polýtimos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4186is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4186
extremely valuable
The King James renders it: very costly, 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
polytimos is rendered "much revered (Menand.).; very costly, very precious". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "much revered (Menand.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:46When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.
Matthew 13:46πολύτιμον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: much revered (Menand.)., and very costly, very precious.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| much revered (Menand.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 13:46When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it. |
| very costly, very preciousMat.13:46 26:7 (βαρύτιμος, WH), Jhn.12:3; comparat., 1Pe.1:7.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 13:46When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it. |
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 |
| πολυτελής | polyteles | 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
- πολύτιμον1
- πολυτιμότερον1
- πολυτίμου1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1A-GSF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1A-NSN-C
Matthew
one use
When he found one very precious pearl, he went away and sold all he had and bought it.
- πολύτιμονpolutimonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: very precious
John
one use
Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
- πολυτίμουpolutimouadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of great price
1 Peter
one use
so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- πολυτιμότερονpolutimoteronadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: more precious
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.