Word Summary
polytimos: very precious
Original Word: πολύτιμοςTransliteration: polytimos
Phonetic Spelling: (pol-oot'-ee-mos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: very precious
Meaning: very precious
Strong's Concordance
very costly, of great price.
From polus and time; extremely valuable -- very costly, of great price.
see GREEK polus
see GREEK time
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4186: πολύτιμοςπολύτιμος,
πολύτιμον (
πολύς,
τιμή),
very valuable, of great price:
Matthew 13:46;
Matthew 26:7 L T Tr marginal reading;
John 12:3; comparitive
πολυτιμότερον,
1 Peter 1:7, where
Rec. πολύ τιμιώτερον. (
Plutarch, Pomp. 5;
Herodian, 1, 17, 5 (3 edition, Bekker);
Anthol., others.)