entimos

Strong’sG1784

precious, honored, honorable

stem entim-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.

ἔντιμος, -ον

(< τιμή), [in LXX for חוֹר, etc.;]

honoured, prized, precious: of persons, Lk 7:2, Phl 2:29; compar., Lk 14:8; of things, metaph., λίθος, I Pe 2:4, 6 (LXX).†

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

Strong’s G1784 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiden'-tee-mos

valued (figuratively)

Fromfrom G1722 and G5092;

King Jamesdear, more honourable, precious, in reputation.

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

ἔντῑμ-ος, ον,
(τιμή),
1 of persons, in honour, honoured, opposed to ἄτιμος, Refs 5th c.BC+; τινί by another, Refs 5th c.BC+: with dative of things, honoured with, σπονδαῖς Refs 5th c.BC+; in office, Refs 5th c.BC+; of men of high rank in Persia, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ἄδοξοι, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 of things, τὰ θεῶν ἔ. what is honoured in their sight, their ordinances or attributes, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. ποιῆσαι τὴν τέχνην hold it in honour, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔργα - ότερα (opposed to ἀναγκαιότερα)Refs; χώρα ἔ. place of honour, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔ. ἀπόλυσις, = Latin honesta missio, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 adverb -μως, ἄγειν τι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔχειν τι Refs 5th c.BC+; also ἐ. ἔχειν to be in honour, Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative -όταταRefs 2nd c.AD+; -μως ἀπολελυμένος, = Latin missus honesta missione, Refs 1st c.AD+
II doing honour, honourable (to a person), λόγος Refs 5th c.BC+
III valuable, highly valued, [χώρα] Refs 4th c.BC+; of currency, accepted in exchange, opposed to ἀδόκιμον, νόμισμα Refs 5th c.BC+

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.

precious2×distinguished1×highly valued1×honor1×

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	entimos1×ἔντιμος	entimas	entimem	entimois	entimais	entimeim
object accusative	entimon2×ἔντιμον	entiman		entimoin1×ἐντίμους	entimain
direct address vocative	entimor	entimar		entimoir	entimair
of, belonging to genitive	entimou	entimau	entimeu	entimoiu	entimaiu	entimeiu
to, for dative	entimo	entima	entime	entimoi	entimai	entimei

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

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

entim 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.

5 occurrences, every one of them listed

entimos“highly valued”subjectnominative singular1×

Luke 7:2… echarōntos mellate teleutarō, hos ate auto entimos.There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick …

entimon“precious”objectaccusative singular2×

1 Peter 2:4… men apodokimazorēnton para de theo eklekton entimon… rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

1 Peter 2:6… tithamō en Siōn lithon akrogōniaion eklekton entimon, kai tos pisteuarōntos epi auto ouk …… Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes …

entimoin“honor”objectaccusative plural1×

Philippians 2:29… meta pantau charau, kai toin toioutoin entimoin echavōr,… the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,

entimoteros1×

Luke 14:8… mē katakliniseia eis tan prōtoklisian, mēpote entimoteros su ateiō kalorēntos hupo autou… of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.