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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 εἶδον καὶ ἀνέστην καὶ εἶπα πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐντίμουσ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ στρατηγοὺσ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ καταλοίπουσ τοῦ λαοῦ. μὴ φοβηθῆτε ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν. μνήσθητε τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ φοβεροῦ καὶ παρατάξασθε περὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ὑμῶν, υἱῶν ὑμῶν, θυγατέρων ὑμῶν, γυναικῶν ὑμῶν καὶ οἴκων ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 4:8)
  • καὶ εἶπα πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐντίμουσ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ καταλοίπουσ τοῦ λαοῦ. τὸ ἔργον πλατὺ καὶ πολύ, καὶ ἡμεῖσ σκορπιζόμεθα ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχουσ μακρὰν ἀνὴρ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 4:13)
  • καὶ ἐβουλεύσατο καρδία μου ἐπ’ ἐμέ, καὶ ἐμαχεσάμην πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐντίμουσ καὶ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ καὶ εἶπα αὐτοῖσ. ἀπαιτήσει ἀνὴρ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, ἃ ὑμεῖσ ἀπαιτεῖτε. καὶ ἔδωκα ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ ἐκκλησίαν μεγάλην (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 5:7)
  • καὶ ἔδωκεν ὁ Θεὸσ εἰσ τὴν καρδίαν μου καὶ συνῆξα τοὺσ ἐντίμουσ καὶ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ καὶ τὸν λαὸν εἰσ συνοδίασ. καὶ εὗρον βιβλίον τῆσ συνοδίασ, οἳ ἀνέβησαν ἐν πρώτοισ, καὶ εὗρον γεγραμμένον ἐν αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 7:5)
  • δεῖ οὖν μαντεύσασθαι πῶσ ποτ’ ἄνθρωποσ ἐξαπίνησ ἔχων κύλικα προβάλλει ζητήματα καθάπερ ἐν διατριβῇ λέγων, Ἀριστοτέλησ δὲ ἄλουτον καὶ κονιορτοῦ ἥκειν πλήρη τινὰ ἐπὶ τὸ συμπόσιόν φησιν ̓ ἔπειθ’ ὁ μὲν Ὅμηροσ ἐκδιδάσκει τίνασ κλητέον, εἰπὼν ὡσ τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ τε καὶ ἐντίμουσ χρὴ καλεῖν κίκλησκεν δὲ γέροντασ ἀριστῆασ Παναχαιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3 1:2)

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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