polutelos

Strong’sG4185

very costly, very precious

stem polutel-3 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.

πολυτελής, -ές

(< πολύς, τέλος), [in LXX for יָקָר, etc.;]

very costly, very precious, of great value: Mk 14:3, I Ti 2:9; metaph., I Pe 3:4.†

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

Strong’s G4185 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpol-oo-tel-ace'

extremely expensive

Fromfrom G4183 and G5056;

King Jamescostly, very precious, of great price.

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

πολυ-τελής, ές,
(τέλος) very expensive, costly, opposed to εὐτελής, οἰκίη Refs 5th c.BC+; π. νεκρός honoured with a costly funeral, Refs 4th c.BC+; λίθοι, λιθεία, precious stones, Refs 2nd c.BC+: generally, valuable, -εστάτην τὴν τοῦ ὁρᾶν.. δύναμιν ἐδημιούργησεν Refs 5th c.BC+; -έστατον ζῷον, variant for{πολυφρονέστατον}, Refs 5th c.AD+
II of persons, lavish, extravagant, coupled with ἄσωτος, Refs 4th c.BC+. adverb -λῶςRefs 5th c.BC+: superlative, τὰ -λέστατα in the costliest manner, 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.

expensive1×very costly1×very precious1×

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	polutelos	polutelas	polutelem1×πολυτελές	polutelois	polutelais	poluteleim
object accusative	polutelon	polutelan		poluteloin	polutelain
direct address vocative	polutelor	polutelar		poluteloir	polutelair
of, belonging to genitive	polutelou	polutelau1×πολυτελοῦς	poluteleu	poluteloiu	polutelaiu	poluteleiu
to, for dative	polutelo1×πολυτελεῖ	polutela	polutele	poluteloi	polutelai	polutelei

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

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

polutel 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

polutelo“expensive”to, fordative singular1×

1 Timothy 2:9… kai chrusie ē margaritoi ē himatismo polutelo,… hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

polutelau“very costly”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Mark 14:3“very costly”… gunaikas echarōntas alabastran mureu nardau pistikau polutelau; suntribarantas tan alabastran katachata autou tau …… Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

polutelem“very precious”subject or objectdirect singular1×

1 Peter 3:4“very precious”… pneumeu, hem atō enōpion tou theou polutelem.… and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.