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ἔντιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔντιμος ἔντιμον

Structure: ἐντιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: timh/

Sense

  1. in honour, honoured, prized, honoured with or in, men in office, men of rank
  2. honoured, in honour
  3. in honour

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπε Σαούλ. ἡμάρτηκα. ἐπίστρεφε τέκνον Δαυίδ, ὅτι οὐ κακοποιήσω σε ἀνθ̓ ὧν ἔντιμοσ ψυχή μου ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ σου καὶ ἐν τῇ σήμερον. μεματαίωμαι καὶ ἠγνόηκα πολλὰ σφόδρα. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 26:21)
  • ἐν μέσῳ ἀδελφῶν ὁ ἡγούμενοσ αὐτῶν ἔντιμοσ, καὶ οἱ φοβούμενοι Κύριον ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 10:20)
  • καὶ ἔσονται οἱ καταλελειμμένοι ἔντιμοι μᾶλλον ἢ τὸ χρυσίον τὸ ἄπυρον, καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ μᾶλλον ἔντιμοσ ἔσται ἢ ὁ λίθοσ ὁ ἐκ Σουφίρ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 13:12)
  • καὶ νῦν λέγω. ἐν τρισὶν ἔτεσιν ἐτῶν μισθωτοῦ ἀτιμασθήσεται ἡ δόξα Μωὰβ ἐν παντὶ τῷ πλούτῳ τῷ πολλῷ, καὶ καταλειφθήσεται ὀλιγοστὸσ καὶ οὐκ ἔντιμοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 16:14)
  • ἀφ̓ οὗ ἔντιμοσ ἐγένου ἐναντίον ἐμοῦ, ἐδοξάσθησ, καὶ ἐγὼ σὲ ἠγάπησα. καὶ δώσω ἀνθρώπουσ πολλοὺσ ὑπὲρ σοῦ καὶ ἄρχοντασ ὑπὲρ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 43:4)

Synonyms

  1. in honour

  2. honoured

  3. in honour

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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