Strong G514ἄξιος
worthy
- Transliteration
- axios
- Pronunciation
- ax'-ee-os
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
Probably from G71; deserving comparable or suitable (as if drawing praise): - due reward meet [un-] worthy.
Detailed definition
ἄξιος, -α, -ον
(ἄγω, in sense, to weigh), [in LXX for בֵּן (Deu.25:2), מָלֵא, שָׁוָה; frequently in Wis, 2Mac;]
1. Part One
__(a) of weight, worth (often with genitive, cf. Pr 315, 811), before πρός: Rom.8:18 (see Field, Notes, 157);
__(b) befitting, meet: with genitive, Mat.3:8, Luk.3:8 23:41, Act.26:20, 1Co.16:4 (see M, Pr., 216); absol., 2Th.1:3;
__(with) of persons, worthy;
2. Part Two
__α in good sense: with genitive of thing(s), Mat.10:10, Luk.7:4 10:7, Act.13:46, 1Ti.1:15 4:9 5:18 6:1; with aor. inf. (see M, Pr., 203): Luk.15:19, 21, Act_13:25, Rev.4:11 5:2, 4 5:9, 12; before ἵνα: Jhn.1:27; ἅς, Luk.7:4; absol., but of what understood: Mat.10:11, 13 22:8, Rev.3:4; with genitive of person(s), Mat.10:37-38, Heb.11:38;
__β in bad sense; with genitive of thing(s), Luk.12:48 23:15, Act.23:29 25:11, 25 26:31, Rom.1:32; absol., Rev.16:6 (MM, VGT, see word).†
(AS)
(ἄγω, in sense, to weigh), [in LXX for בֵּן (Deu.25:2), מָלֵא, שָׁוָה; frequently in Wis, 2Mac;]
1. Part One
__(a) of weight, worth (often with genitive, cf. Pr 315, 811), before πρός: Rom.8:18 (see Field, Notes, 157);
__(b) befitting, meet: with genitive, Mat.3:8, Luk.3:8 23:41, Act.26:20, 1Co.16:4 (see M, Pr., 216); absol., 2Th.1:3;
__(with) of persons, worthy;
2. Part Two
__α in good sense: with genitive of thing(s), Mat.10:10, Luk.7:4 10:7, Act.13:46, 1Ti.1:15 4:9 5:18 6:1; with aor. inf. (see M, Pr., 203): Luk.15:19, 21, Act_13:25, Rev.4:11 5:2, 4 5:9, 12; before ἵνα: Jhn.1:27; ἅς, Luk.7:4; absol., but of what understood: Mat.10:11, 13 22:8, Rev.3:4; with genitive of person(s), Mat.10:37-38, Heb.11:38;
__β in bad sense; with genitive of thing(s), Luk.12:48 23:15, Act.23:29 25:11, 25 26:31, Rom.1:32; absol., Rev.16:6 (MM, VGT, see word).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G514 appears in 39 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- worthy34
- meet4
- reward1
- unworthy1
First verses
- Matthew 3:8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
- Matthew 10:10Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
- Matthew 10:11And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
- Matthew 10:13And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
- Matthew 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
- Matthew 10:38And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
- Matthew 22:8Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
- Luke 3:8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
- Luke 7:4And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:
- Luke 10:7And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
- Luke 12:48But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
- Luke 15:19And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
- Luke 15:21And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
- Luke 23:15No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
- Luke 23:41And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
- John 1:27He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
- Acts 13:25And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
- Acts 13:46Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
- Acts 23:29Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
- Acts 25:11For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cesar.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἄξιος, ία, ιον
(ος, ον [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 8.314), for Αγ-τιος,)] counterbalancing,[Refs (compare ἄγω v1)]: hence properly weighing as much, of like value, worth as much as, with genitive, βοὸς ἄ.[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.885)]; νῦν δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἑνὸς ἄξιοί εἰμεν Ἕκτορος we are not—all together—worth one Hector,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8.234, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, 7.21; πάντων Ζεὺς ἄξιον ἦμαρ ἔδωκεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.719)]; so πολλοῦ ἄ. worth much, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.28, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 185b, etc.; πλείονος ἄ. [prev. author] “Phdr.” 235b, etc.; πλείστου ἄ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 464d, etc.)]; παντός, τοῦ παντὸς ἄ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 275, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 216c)]; παντὸς ἄ., with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 797)]; λόγου ἄ., ={ἀξιόλογος}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.133, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.73, etc.)]; σπουδῆς, μνήμης ἄ., [Refs 6th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.35a,172e:—opposed to to these are οὐδενὸς ἄ. 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 456; ἢ παντὸς ἢ τὸ παράπαν οὐδενός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 64d; ὀλίγου [prev. author] “Grg.” 497b, etc.; σμικροῦ [prev. author] “R.” 504d, etc.; βραχέος [prev. author] “Lg.” 692c)]; μείονος, ἐλάττονος ἄ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.50, “Cyr.” 2.2.14; πολλαπλασίου τιμήματος ἄ. κτήσεις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1306b12)]; also εἰς ὀγδοήκοντα μνᾶς ἄ. worth up to a sum of.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.10.)]
2 with dative person, σοὶ δ᾽ ἄξιόν ἐστιν ἀμοιβῆς 'tis worth a return to thee, i.e. will bring thee a return, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.318; πολέος δέ οἱ ἄξιος ἔσται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.562; βασιλεῖ ἂν πολλοῦ ἄξιοι γένοιντο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.14.)]
3 absolutely, worthy, goodly, ἄξια δῶρα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.261)]; ἄ. ὦνος a goodly price, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.429)]; ὅθεν κέ τοι ἄξιον ἄλφοι it would bring thee a good price,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (20.383; φέροντες ὅ τι ἕκαστος ἄξιον εἶχε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.2.)]
3.b in Attic dialect in an exactly opposite sense, 'good value for the money', i.e. cheap, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 672, 895)]: comparative,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 645; ὡς ἀξιώτατον πρίασθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 22.18; ὡς ἄ. γεγόνασιν οἱ πυροὶ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 3.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.6.)]
4 deserved, meet, due, δίκη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 298, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 12.19; χάρις [prev. author] “HG” 1.6.11)]; ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων fit suffering for fit deeds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1527, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 735.)]
5 of persons, οἱ ἑωυτοῦ ἄξιοι those of one's own rank, his peers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.107.)]
6 sufficient for, with genitive, ἄ. τοῦ πολέμου τὰ χρήματα[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.27.)]
7 αἰδοῦς ἀξίαν.. τὴν προθυμίαν μᾶλλον ἢ θράσους more like modesty than rashness, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 291b25.)]
II after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], in moral relation, worthy, estimable, of persons and things, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.224, etc.)]; οὐδὲν ἀξία nothing worth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 445; ἀξίαν κἀπ᾽ ἀξίων [prev. author] “Eu.” 435; ἀξίων γεννητόρων ἤθη φυλάσσεις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 735.)]
II.2 worthy of, deserving, mostly with genitive of things, ἄξιον φυγῆς, ἄξια στεναγμάτων, γέλωτος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Med.” 1124, “Or.” 1326, “Heracl.” 507; ἐγκωμίων τί ἀξιώτερον ἤ..; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.3: with _genitive_ _person_, ποιεῖν ἄξια οὔτε ὑμῶν οὔτε πατέρων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.71; ἄξιον τοῦ πατρός 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.80; ἄξια τοῦ Μαραθῶνος διανοεῖσθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cimon” 5.)]
II.2.b with genitive of things et dative person, ἡμῖν δ᾽ Ἀχιλλεὺς ἄξιος τιμῆς is worthy of honour at our hands, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 309; πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν ἄ. ὑμῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 633; ἄ. πλείστου Λακεδαιμονίοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.81; θανάτου τῇ πόλει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.1, compare 1.2.62; εἰμὶ δ᾽ οὐ τούτων ὑμῖν ἄ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.217; χάριτος ἄ. τῇ πόλει 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.10; later τιμῆς ἄ. παρὰ πάντων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 3.)]
II.3 with infinitive, Προθοήνορος ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι ἄ. worthy to be killed instead of him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.472, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.76; τίεσθαι δ᾽ ἀξιώτατος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 531; ἄ. θρήνων τυχεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 924)]; ἄξιοι δουλεύειν only fit to be slaves, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1254b36; also ἄ. σέβειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 315 (Elmsl.).)]
II.3.b ἄξιός εἰμι, like{δίκαιός εἰμι}, I deserve to.., ἄξιός εἰμι πληγὰς λαβεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 324; ἄξιός εἰμι ἀπολαῦσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.19)]: absolutely, the infinitive being supplied, authorized to act, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.132)]; ἄ. γάρ, emphatically, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 143e.)]
II.3.c later ἄ. ἵνα[NT (NT.John.1.27.)]
II.4 ἄξιόν [ἐστι] 'tis meet, fit, due, ἄξιον εἶναι τρεῖς ἑνὸς ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.446; ἄ. μνήμην ἔχειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.14)]: later with future infinitive, ἄ. διαπορήσειν[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Didymus Grammaticus)]in D.[Refs (9.15.)]
II.4.b with dative person et infinitive, τῇ πόλει γὰρ ἄξιον ξυλλαβεῖν τὸν νο̄ρα 'tis meet for the city, is worth her while.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 205; τί σοι ζῆν ἄξιο; [prev. author] “Nu.” 1074, compare “Av.” 548; ἄξιόν γε πᾶσιν ἐπολολύξαι [prev. author] “Eq.” 616; frequently in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus as ὡς οὐκ ἄξιον εἴη βασιλεῖ ἀφεῖναι κτλ.)] that it was not meet for him.., [Refs (“An.” 2.3.25.)]
II.4.c the infinitive is sometimes omitted, ἄξιον γὰρ Ἑλλάδι 'tis meet in the eyes of Hellas [so to do], [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 8)]; and sometimes the dative, ἄξιόν ἐστι operae pretium est, it is worth while, ἐνθυμηθῆναι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.21; γαμεῖν οὐκ ἄξιον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 628.)]
III adverb ἀξίως, with genitive, ἐμάχοντο ἀξίως λόγου[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.112; οὔτε ἑωυτοῦ ἀ. [prev. author] 3.125; οὐκ ἀ. ἀπηγήσιος [prev. passage]; τῆς ἀσικίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.39)]; ἀ. τοῦ θεοῦ, τῆς θεᾶς, [NT+5th c.BC+ (“OGI” 331.9 (Pergam.), “Inscription Magn.” 33.30, cf. NT.1Thes.2.12: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 133, etc.)]; κολάσετε ἀξίως as they deserve, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.40.)]
(ος, ον [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 8.314), for Αγ-τιος,)] counterbalancing,[Refs (compare ἄγω v1)]: hence properly weighing as much, of like value, worth as much as, with genitive, βοὸς ἄ.[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.885)]; νῦν δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἑνὸς ἄξιοί εἰμεν Ἕκτορος we are not—all together—worth one Hector,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8.234, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, 7.21; πάντων Ζεὺς ἄξιον ἦμαρ ἔδωκεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.719)]; so πολλοῦ ἄ. worth much, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.28, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 185b, etc.; πλείονος ἄ. [prev. author] “Phdr.” 235b, etc.; πλείστου ἄ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 464d, etc.)]; παντός, τοῦ παντὸς ἄ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 275, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 216c)]; παντὸς ἄ., with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 797)]; λόγου ἄ., ={ἀξιόλογος}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.133, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.73, etc.)]; σπουδῆς, μνήμης ἄ., [Refs 6th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.35a,172e:—opposed to to these are οὐδενὸς ἄ. 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 456; ἢ παντὸς ἢ τὸ παράπαν οὐδενός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 64d; ὀλίγου [prev. author] “Grg.” 497b, etc.; σμικροῦ [prev. author] “R.” 504d, etc.; βραχέος [prev. author] “Lg.” 692c)]; μείονος, ἐλάττονος ἄ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.50, “Cyr.” 2.2.14; πολλαπλασίου τιμήματος ἄ. κτήσεις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1306b12)]; also εἰς ὀγδοήκοντα μνᾶς ἄ. worth up to a sum of.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.10.)]
2 with dative person, σοὶ δ᾽ ἄξιόν ἐστιν ἀμοιβῆς 'tis worth a return to thee, i.e. will bring thee a return, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.318; πολέος δέ οἱ ἄξιος ἔσται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.562; βασιλεῖ ἂν πολλοῦ ἄξιοι γένοιντο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.14.)]
3 absolutely, worthy, goodly, ἄξια δῶρα[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.261)]; ἄ. ὦνος a goodly price, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.429)]; ὅθεν κέ τοι ἄξιον ἄλφοι it would bring thee a good price,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (20.383; φέροντες ὅ τι ἕκαστος ἄξιον εἶχε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.2.)]
3.b in Attic dialect in an exactly opposite sense, 'good value for the money', i.e. cheap, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 672, 895)]: comparative,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 645; ὡς ἀξιώτατον πρίασθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 22.18; ὡς ἄ. γεγόνασιν οἱ πυροὶ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 3.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 4.6.)]
4 deserved, meet, due, δίκη[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 298, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 12.19; χάρις [prev. author] “HG” 1.6.11)]; ἄξια δράσας ἄξια πάσχων fit suffering for fit deeds, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1527, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 735.)]
5 of persons, οἱ ἑωυτοῦ ἄξιοι those of one's own rank, his peers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.107.)]
6 sufficient for, with genitive, ἄ. τοῦ πολέμου τὰ χρήματα[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.27.)]
7 αἰδοῦς ἀξίαν.. τὴν προθυμίαν μᾶλλον ἢ θράσους more like modesty than rashness, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 291b25.)]
II after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], in moral relation, worthy, estimable, of persons and things, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.224, etc.)]; οὐδὲν ἀξία nothing worth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 445; ἀξίαν κἀπ᾽ ἀξίων [prev. author] “Eu.” 435; ἀξίων γεννητόρων ἤθη φυλάσσεις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 735.)]
II.2 worthy of, deserving, mostly with genitive of things, ἄξιον φυγῆς, ἄξια στεναγμάτων, γέλωτος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Med.” 1124, “Or.” 1326, “Heracl.” 507; ἐγκωμίων τί ἀξιώτερον ἤ..; 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.3: with _genitive_ _person_, ποιεῖν ἄξια οὔτε ὑμῶν οὔτε πατέρων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.71; ἄξιον τοῦ πατρός 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.80; ἄξια τοῦ Μαραθῶνος διανοεῖσθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cimon” 5.)]
II.2.b with genitive of things et dative person, ἡμῖν δ᾽ Ἀχιλλεὺς ἄξιος τιμῆς is worthy of honour at our hands, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 309; πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν ἄ. ὑμῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 633; ἄ. πλείστου Λακεδαιμονίοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.81; θανάτου τῇ πόλει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.1, compare 1.2.62; εἰμὶ δ᾽ οὐ τούτων ὑμῖν ἄ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.217; χάριτος ἄ. τῇ πόλει 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.10; later τιμῆς ἄ. παρὰ πάντων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 3.)]
II.3 with infinitive, Προθοήνορος ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι ἄ. worthy to be killed instead of him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.472, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.76; τίεσθαι δ᾽ ἀξιώτατος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 531; ἄ. θρήνων τυχεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 924)]; ἄξιοι δουλεύειν only fit to be slaves, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1254b36; also ἄ. σέβειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 315 (Elmsl.).)]
II.3.b ἄξιός εἰμι, like{δίκαιός εἰμι}, I deserve to.., ἄξιός εἰμι πληγὰς λαβεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 324; ἄξιός εἰμι ἀπολαῦσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.19)]: absolutely, the infinitive being supplied, authorized to act, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.132)]; ἄ. γάρ, emphatically, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 143e.)]
II.3.c later ἄ. ἵνα[NT (NT.John.1.27.)]
II.4 ἄξιόν [ἐστι] 'tis meet, fit, due, ἄξιον εἶναι τρεῖς ἑνὸς ἀντὶ πεφάσθαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.446; ἄ. μνήμην ἔχειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.14)]: later with future infinitive, ἄ. διαπορήσειν[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Didymus Grammaticus)]in D.[Refs (9.15.)]
II.4.b with dative person et infinitive, τῇ πόλει γὰρ ἄξιον ξυλλαβεῖν τὸν νο̄ρα 'tis meet for the city, is worth her while.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 205; τί σοι ζῆν ἄξιο; [prev. author] “Nu.” 1074, compare “Av.” 548; ἄξιόν γε πᾶσιν ἐπολολύξαι [prev. author] “Eq.” 616; frequently in 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus as ὡς οὐκ ἄξιον εἴη βασιλεῖ ἀφεῖναι κτλ.)] that it was not meet for him.., [Refs (“An.” 2.3.25.)]
II.4.c the infinitive is sometimes omitted, ἄξιον γὰρ Ἑλλάδι 'tis meet in the eyes of Hellas [so to do], [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 8)]; and sometimes the dative, ἄξιόν ἐστι operae pretium est, it is worth while, ἐνθυμηθῆναι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.21; γαμεῖν οὐκ ἄξιον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 628.)]
III adverb ἀξίως, with genitive, ἐμάχοντο ἀξίως λόγου[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.112; οὔτε ἑωυτοῦ ἀ. [prev. author] 3.125; οὐκ ἀ. ἀπηγήσιος [prev. passage]; τῆς ἀσικίας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.39)]; ἀ. τοῦ θεοῦ, τῆς θεᾶς, [NT+5th c.BC+ (“OGI” 331.9 (Pergam.), “Inscription Magn.” 33.30, cf. NT.1Thes.2.12: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 133, etc.)]; κολάσετε ἀξίως as they deserve, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.40.)]