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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

  • τότε οἱ φυλάσσοντεσ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τί ἐπορεύθην καὶ τί ἐγὼ ποιῶ, καὶ τοῖσ Ἰουδαίοισ καὶ τοῖσ ἱερεῦσι καὶ τοῖσ ἐντίμοισ καὶ τοῖσ στρατηγοῖσ καὶ τοῖσ καταλοίποισ τοῖσ ποιοῦσι τὰ ἔργα, ἕωσ τότε οὐκ ἀπήγγειλα. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 2:16)
  • καὶ νῦν ὡσ σὰρξ ἀδελφῶν ἡμῶν σὰρξ ἡμῶν, ὡσ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν υἱοὶ ἡμῶν. καὶ ἰδοὺ ἡμεῖσ καταδυναστεύομεν τοὺσ υἱοὺσ ἡμῶν καὶ τὰσ θυγατέρασ ἡμῶν εἰσ δούλουσ, καί εἰσιν ἀπὸ θυγατέρων ἡμῶν καταδυναστευόμεναι, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι δύναμισ χειρῶν ἡμῶν, καὶ ἀγροὶ ἡμῶν καὶ ἀμπελῶνεσ ἡμῶν τοῖσ ἐντίμοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 5:5)
  • καὶ οὓσ μὲν ἂν αἰσθάνηται τῶν ἀρχόντων συνοικουμένην τε τὴν χώραν παρεχομένουσ καὶ ἐνεργὸν οὖσαν τὴν γῆν καὶ πλήρη δένδρων τε ὧν ἑκάστη φέρει καὶ καρπῶν, τούτοισ μὲν χώραν τε ἄλλην προστίθησι καὶ δώροισ κοσμεῖ καὶ ἕδραισ ἐντίμοισ γεραίρει, οἷσ δ’ ἂν ὁρᾷ ἀργόν τε τὴν χώραν οὖσαν καὶ ὀλιγάνθρωπον ἢ διὰ χαλεπότητα ἢ δι’ ὕβριν ἢ δι’ ἀμέλειαν, τούτουσ δὲ κολάζων καὶ παύων τῆσ ἀρχῆσ ἄρχοντασ ἄλλουσ καθίστησι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 9:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἄξιοι ὄντεσ τοῖσ ἐντίμοισ ἐπιχειροῦσιν, εἶτα ἐξελέγχονται· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 95:3)

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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