hōraios

Strong’sG5611

fair, beautiful

stem hōrai-4 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.

ὡραῖος, -α, -ον

(< ὥρα), [in LXX for נָאָה, טוֹב, יָפֶה, etc.;]

seasonable, timely, esp. of ripe fruits; hence, blooming, beautiful (both of things and persons): Mt 23:27, Ac 3:2, 10, Ro 10:15 (LXX, ὥρα).†

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

Strong’s G5611 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidho-rah'-yos

belonging to the right hour or season (timely), i.e. (by implication) flourishing (beauteous (figuratively))

Fromfrom G5610;

King Jamesbeautiful.

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

ὡραῖος, α, ον,
produced at the right season (ὥρα), seasonable, timely: especially of the fruits of the earth, βίος or βίοτος ὡ. store of fruits gathered in due season, Refs; ὡ. καρποί the fruits of the season, καρποὺς.. κατατίθεσθαι ὡραίους to store them up in season, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὡραῖα.. ἀποτελεῖν ἱερά to render fruits of the season as sacred offerings, Refs 5th c.BC+; σῦκα Refs 2nd c.AD+; also of animals, ὡ. ἄρνες yearling, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of tunnies at a year old (from six months to one year they were called πηλαμύδες), πηλαμὺς.. ὡραία θέρους τῷ Βοσπορίτῃ Refs 5th c.BC+; ὡ. θύννοι Ps.-Refs 8th c.BC+; τάριχος ὡ. fish salted or pickled in the season, Refs 2nd c.AD+; σαργάναι ὡ. pickling-tubs, Refs 2nd c.AD+: hence generally, agricultural produce, εἶναι ἐνεχυρασίαν Αἰξωνεῦσιν ἐκ τῶν ὡ. τῶν ἐκ τοῦ χωρίου Refs 4th c.BC+
2 τὰ ὡραῖα, ={τὰ καταμήνια}, especially at their first appearance, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 substantive ἡ ὡραία (in full, ὥρη ἡ ὡραίη Refs 5th c.BC+, harvest-time, especially the twenty days before and twenty days after the rising of the dog-star, μίμνει ἐς ὡραίην till harvest-time, Refs 3rd c.BC+
3.b the campaigning-season, during which the troops kept the field, Refs 4th c.BC+
3.c τὴν μὲν ὡραίην οὐκ ὕει it does not rain in the season (i.e. of rain), Refs 5th c.BC+
II happening or done in due season, seasonable, ἄροτος, ἔργον, Refs 8th c.BC+; πλόος Refs 4th c.BC+; σκαπάνη Refs; ὅτε ὡραῖον εἴη when the weather permitted, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 metaphorically, (ὥρα (C) B) seasonable, due, proper, ὡραίων τυχεῖν, ={νομίμων τυχεῖν} (compare ὥριος (A). Refs 5th c.BC+ uncertain in Refs 4th c.BC+
III of persons, seasonable or ripe for a thing, c.genitive, ἀνδρὸς ὡραίη Refs 5th c.BC+; γάμων or γάμου ὡραῖαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὅστις οὐκέθ᾽ ὡραῖος γαμεῖ Refs; ὡ. γάμος seasonable marriage, Refs 4th c.BC+; also of old persons, ripe or ready for death, πατήρ γε μὴν ὡ. Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 in reference to age, in the prime of life, youthful, Refs 8th c.BC+: hence in the bloom of youth, opposed to ἄωρος, Refs 5th c.BC+: but not necessarily implying beauty, τοῖς τῶν ὡραίων προσώποις, καλῶν δὲ μή Refs 5th c.BC+; compare ὥρα (C) Refs 5th c.BC+
III.3 generally, of things, beautiful, graceful, LXX+NT
IV irregular superlative ὡραιέστατος Refs 5th c.BC+
V adverb ὡραίως 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.

beautiful4×

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	hōraios	hōraias	hōraiem	hōraiois2×ὡραῖοι	hōraiais	hōraieim
object accusative	hōraion	hōraian1×Ὡραίαν		hōraioin	hōraiain
direct address vocative	hōraior	hōraiar		hōraioir	hōraiair
of, belonging to genitive	hōraiou	hōraiau	hōraieu	hōraioiu	hōraiaiu	hōraieiu
to, for dative	hōraio	hōraia1×Ὡραίᾳ	hōraie	hōraioi	hōraiai	hōraiei

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

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

hōrai 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.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

hōraian“beautiful”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 3:2… tan thuran teu hiereu tan legorōntan Hōraian teu aitarō eleēmosunan para toiu eisporeuorōntoiu …… carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day …

hōraia“beautiful”to, fordative singular1×

Acts 3:10… pros tan eleēmosunan kathorōntos epi ta Hōraia Pula teu hiereu, kai pimplēila thambeu …… used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they …

hōraiois“beautiful”subjectnominative plural2×

Matthew 23:27… tafoi koniorēntoi, hotinois exōthen men fanolō hōraiois esōthen de gemalō osteiu nekroiu kai …… are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the …

Romans 10:15… ean mē apostelileia? kathōs grafotē; Hōs hōraiois tois podois toiu euangelizorōntoiu teim agatheim.… sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who …