Strong's Concordance polutelés: very costly Original Word: πολυτελής, έςPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: polutelés Phonetic Spelling: (pol-oo-tel-ace') Short Definition: very costly, very precious Definition: very costly, very precious, of great value. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4185: πολυτελήςπολυτελής, πολυτελές (πολύς, and τέλος cost) (from Herodotus down), precious; a. requiring great outlay, very costly: Mark 14:3; 1 Timothy 2:9. (Thucydides and following; the Sept.) b. excellent, of surpassing value (A. V. of great price): 1 Peter 3:4. ((Plato, others.)) From polus and telos; extremely expensive -- costly, very precious, of great price. see GREEK polus see GREEK telos Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 41853 Occurrences πολυτελεῖ — 1 Occ. πολυτελές — 1 Occ. πολυτελοῦς — 1 Occ. Mark 14:3 Adj-GFS GRK: νάρδου πιστικῆς πολυτελοῦς συντρίψασα τὴν NAS: vial of very costly perfume KJV: of spikenard very precious; and INT: of nard pure of great price having broken the 1 Timothy 2:9 Adj-DMS 1 Peter 3:4 Adj-NNS |