Word Summary
anōteron: higher
Original Word: ἀνώτερονTransliteration: anōteron
Phonetic Spelling: (an-o'-ter-os)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: higher
Meaning: higher
Strong's Concordance
above, higher.
Comparative degree of ano; upper, i.e. (neuter as adverb) to a more conspicuous place, in a former part of the book -- above, higher.
see GREEK ano
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 511: ἀνώτεροςἀνώτερος,
ἀνωτερα,
ἀνώτερον (comparitive from
ἄνω, cf.
κατώτερος, see
Winers Grammar, § 11, 2 c.; (
Buttmann, 28 (24f))),
higher. The neuter
ἀνώτερον as adverb,
higher;
a. of motion, to a higher place, (up higher): Luke 14:10.
b. of rest, in a higher place, above i. e. in the immediately preceding part of the passage quoted, Hob. 10:8. Similarly Polybius 3, 1, 1 τρίτῃ ἀνώτερον βίβλῳ. (In Leviticus 11:21, with a genitive.)