asteios

Strong’sG791

elegant, pretty, fair, fine, beautiful

stem astei-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἀστεῖος, -ον

(< ἄστυ, a city), [in LXX: Ex 2:2 (טוֹב), Nu 22:32 (οὐκ ἀ. ירט), Jg 3:17 (בָּרִיא), Jth 11:23, Da LXX, Sus 7, II Mac 6:23*;]

1. of the town.

2. (Like Lat. urbanus),

(a) courteous,

(b) elegant (in π., of clothing, MM, s.v.), comely, fair (as in Ex 2:2), He 11:23, Ac 7:20.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G791 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidas-ti'-os

urbane, i.e. (by implication) handsome

Fromfrom ἄστυ (a city);

King Jamesfair.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀστεῖος, α, ον,
also ος, ον Refs 4th c.BC+: (ἄστυ):— of the town (but in the literal sense ἀστικός is used).
II town-bred, polite, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἄγροικος, Refs 7th c.BC+; charming, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 of thoughts and words, refined, elegant, witty, διάλεκτον ἀστείαν ὑποθηλυτέραν, opposed to ἀνελεύθερον ὑπαγροικοτέραν, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀστεῖον λέγεις (where there is a play on the double sense, witty and popular) Refs 5th c.BC+; of persons, οἱ ἀ. the wits,Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ ἀ. witty sayings, witticisms, Refs 4th c.BC+ adverb -ωςRefs 1st c.AD+
II.3 as a general word of praise, of things and persons, pretty, charming, βοσκήματεRefs 5th c.BC+; ἀστεῖόν [ἐστι] ὅτι ἐρυθριᾷς it is charming to see you blush, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀστεῖον πάνυ εἰ.. Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3.b ironically, ἀ. κέρδος a pretty piece of luck, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 of outward appearance, pretty, graceful, LXX+4th c.BC+; handsome, LXX: in Comedy, of dainty dishes, κραμβίδιον, κρεΐσκον, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.5 good of its kind, αἷμαRefs 5th c.BC+; of persons, good, Refs 1st c.AD+; ἀστεῖα good qualities, opposed to φαῦλα, Refs 4th c.BC+adverb -είως honourably, πράττωνLXX+1st c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

beautiful2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	asteios1×ἀστεῖος	asteias	asteiem1×ἀστεῖον	asteiois	asteiais	asteieim
object accusative	asteion	asteian		asteioin	asteiain
direct address vocative	asteior	asteiar		asteioir	asteiair
of, belonging to genitive	asteiou	asteiau	asteieu	asteioiu	asteiaiu	asteieiu
to, for dative	asteio	asteia	asteie	asteioi	asteiai	asteiei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

asteistem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

astei is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

asteios“beautiful”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 7:20… ho kairo gennita Mōusos, kai ate asteios to theo; hos anatrefita mēnoin treis …… Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For …

asteiem“beautiful”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Hebrews 11:23… hupo toiu patroiu autou, dioti horala asteiem tem paidiem kai ouk fobila tem …… they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of …