adjective

asteios

Greekἀστεῖος (asteios)

Strong’sG791

elegant, pretty, fair, fine, beautiful

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

Translated as

beautiful2×

What it means

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.

Every form

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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

asteios“beautiful”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 7:20“beautiful”en ho kairo gennita Mōusos, kai ate asteios to theo; hos anatrefita mēnoin treis en to oiko tou patērou;At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.

asteiem“beautiful”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Hebrews 11:23“beautiful”Pistia Mōusos genniratos kruptita trimēnem hupo toiu patēroiu autou, dioti horala asteiem tem paidiem kai ouk fobila tem diatagmem tou basilevou.By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.