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τίμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τίμιος τίμιᾱ τίμιον

Structure: τιμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ti_mh/

Sense

  1. valued
  2. held in honour, honoured, worthy
  3. costly, prized, costly, dear
  4. conferring honour, honourable

Examples

  • καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτῷ τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα εἶχε τίμια τὸ πρότερον καὶ ἐποίησεν αὐτὸν τῶν πρώτων φίλων ἡγεῖσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 11:27)
  • καὶ ὁ λαὸσ αὐτοῦ ἐπικρεμάμενοσ ἐκ τῆσ κατοικίασ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὁ Θεὸσ ἐπὶ τὰ τίμια αὐτοῦ θυμωθήσεται, καὶ οὐ μὴ ὑψώσῃ αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 11:7)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν ὧν βουλευόμεθα, ταῦτά ἐστιν, οὐ Φάλαρισ τύραννοσ εἷσ οὐδ’ ὁ ταῦροσ οὗτοσ οὐδὲ χαλκὸσ μόνον, ἀλλὰ πάντεσ βασιλεῖσ καὶ πάντεσ δυνάσται, ὅσοι νῦν χρῶνται τῷ ἱερῷ, καὶ χρυσὸσ καὶ ἄργυροσ καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τίμια, πολλάκισ ἀνατεθησόμενα τῷ θεῷ· (Lucian, Phalaris, book 2 11:1)
  • ἐρῶ γὰρ τὰ κοινὰ ταυτὶ καὶ πρόχειρα, πλοῦτον καὶ χρυσὸν πολὺν καὶ ἀγρῶν δεσπότην εἶναι καὶ ἀνδράποδα πολλὰ κεκτῆσθαι καὶ ἐσθῆτασ εὐανθεῖσ καὶ μαλακὰσ καὶ ἄργυρον καὶ ἐλέφαντα καὶ τἆλλα ὁπόσα τίμια. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:5)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἐκλέγεσθαι τὰ μήτε συμφέροντα μήτε τίμια μήθ’ ὅλωσ αἱρετὰ πῶσ εὐλόγιστόν ἐστιν; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 27 14:2)
  • οὐδὲ καταισχυνῶ σε, φιλόσοφε λόγε, οὐδὲ ἐξαρνήσομαί σε, ἱερωσύνη τιμία καὶ νομοθεσίασ ἐπιστήμη. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 5:34)

Synonyms

  1. valued

  2. held in honour

  3. costly

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

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