Strong G5611ὡραῖος
Beautiful
- Transliteration
- hōraios
- Pronunciation
- ho-rah'-yos
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
From G5610; belonging to the right hour or season (timely) that is (by implication) flourishing (beauteous [figuratively]): - beautiful.
Detailed definition
ὡραῖος, -α, -ον
(ὥρα), [in LXX for נָאָה, טוֹב, יָפָה, etc.;]
seasonable, timely, esp. of ripe fruits; hence, blooming, beautiful (both of things and persons): Mat.23:27, Act.3:2, 10, Rom.10:15 (LXX, ὥρα).†
(AS)
(ὥρα), [in LXX for נָאָה, טוֹב, יָפָה, etc.;]
seasonable, timely, esp. of ripe fruits; hence, blooming, beautiful (both of things and persons): Mat.23:27, Act.3:2, 10, Rom.10:15 (LXX, ὥρα).†
(AS)
In the biblical story
Beautiful Gate
Gate of the Jerusalem temple, site of Peter's miracle.
The Beautiful Gate was a gate of the Jerusalem temple, where Peter healed a lame man. (Acts 3:2, 10)
In the Bible
Strong G5611 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- beautiful4
First verses
- Matthew 23:27Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
- Acts 3:2And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
- Acts 3:10And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
- Romans 10:15And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
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Detailed Greek dictionary
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 (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 32, 307)]; ὡ. καρποί the fruits of the season, καρποὺς.. κατατίθεσθαι ὡραίους to store them up in season, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.202: frequently in _neuter_, ὡραῖα, τά, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, 3.58, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.3.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 845e; ἑραίως τὰ ὡραῖα ἀποδιδόναι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.8)]; ὡραῖα.. ἀποτελεῖν ἱερά to render fruits of the season as sacred offerings, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 116c, cf. Oracle texts cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.52; τρωκτὰ ὡ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.3.12; ἄνθεα “Anthologia Graeca” 9.564 (from Nicias))]; σῦκα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “χρονίων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.3)]; also of animals, ὡ. ἄρνες yearling, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 6.157 (3rd c.BC: Theodoridas Epigrammaticus))]; 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+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 503)]; ὡ. θύννοι Ps.-[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.116b, cf. Hices.[prev. work] 116e, 4th c.BC: Archestratus Epicus “fragment” 38.9, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Plautus Comicus Latinus “Capt.” 851)]; τάριχος ὡ. fish salted or pickled in the season, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 186.5; ἰχθύες ἐς τάγηνον ὡ. 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 6.4)]; σαργάναι ὡ. pickling-tubs, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.27)]: hence generally, agricultural produce, εἶναι ἐνεχυρασίαν Αἰξωνεῦσιν ἐκ τῶν ὡ. τῶν ἐκ τοῦ χωρίου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 22.2492.8 (4th c.BC).)]
2 τὰ ὡραῖα, ={τὰ καταμήνια}, especially at their first appearance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 34.)]
3 substantive ἡ ὡραία (in full, ὥρη ἡ ὡραίη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.4, 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.128 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus, etc.))], 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+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1390.)]
3.b the campaigning-season, during which the troops kept the field, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.48, 56.30, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.16.7.)]
3.c τὴν μὲν ὡραίην οὐκ ὕει it does not rain in the season (i.e. of rain), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28.)]
II happening or done in due season, seasonable, ἄροτος, ἔργον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 617.642)]; πλόος [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 630; χειμῶνες 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.14.1; ὕδατα [prev. author] “CP” 2.2.1)]; σκαπάνη [Refs ([prev. work] 3.16.1; τομὴ [καλάμου] [prev. author] “HP” 4.11.4)]; ὅτε ὡραῖον εἴη when the weather permitted, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Αιβυκή” 120.)]
II.2 metaphorically, (ὥρα (C) B) seasonable, due, proper, ὡραίων τυχεῖν, ={νομίμων τυχεῖν} (compare ὥριος (A). [Refs 5th c.BC+ (111.2), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 175: ἐν ὡραί[ᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ])] uncertain in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 668.4 (Delphi, 2nd c.BC); ἐνιαύτια ὡ. [prev. work] 1025.37 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC),compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
III of persons, seasonable or ripe for a thing, c.genitive, ἀνδρὸς ὡραίη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.107, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 4)]; γάμων or γάμου ὡραῖαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196, 6.122, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.9; ἐς ἥβην ὡραίαν γάμων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 12 (ὡραίων codices))]; ὅστις οὐκέθ᾽ ὡραῖος γαμεῖ [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 804)]; ὡ. γάμος seasonable marriage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 55)]; also of old persons, ripe or ready for death, πατήρ γε μὴν ὡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 516; αὐτὸς δ᾽, ἐν ὠ. γὰρ ἕσταμεν βίῳ, θνῄσκειν ἕτοιμος [prev. author] “Ph.” 968; θάνατος ὡ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.3; σορός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1365; ὡραῖος ἀποτέθνηκεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.178e; so ὕλη ὡ. τέμνεσθαι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.1.1.)]
III.2 in reference to age, in the prime of life, youthful, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 695)]: hence in the bloom of youth, opposed to ἄωρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.21, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 574c; ὡ. ἐὼν καὶ καλός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.94; παιδίσκη ὡραιοτάτη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1148 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Ra.” 291, 514; παῖς ὡραῖος [prev. author] “Av.” 138)]: but not necessarily implying beauty, τοῖς τῶν ὡραίων προσώποις, καλῶν δὲ μή [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 601b; ἄνευ κάλλους ὡραῖοι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1406b37)]; compare ὥρα (C) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.)]
III.3 generally, of things, beautiful, graceful, [LXX+NT (LXX.Gen.3.6, LXX.2Ch.36.19, NT.Matt.23.27; ἡ ὡ. πύλη τοῦ ἱεροῦ NT.Act.3.10, compare 3.2.)]
IV irregular superlative ὡραιέστατος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 186d.)]
V adverb ὡραίως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.8.)]
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 (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 32, 307)]; ὡ. καρποί the fruits of the season, καρποὺς.. κατατίθεσθαι ὡραίους to store them up in season, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.202: frequently in _neuter_, ὡραῖα, τά, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.120, 3.58, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.3.9, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 845e; ἑραίως τὰ ὡραῖα ἀποδιδόναι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.8)]; ὡραῖα.. ἀποτελεῖν ἱερά to render fruits of the season as sacred offerings, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 116c, cf. Oracle texts cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.52; τρωκτὰ ὡ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.3.12; ἄνθεα “Anthologia Graeca” 9.564 (from Nicias))]; σῦκα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “χρονίων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.3)]; also of animals, ὡ. ἄρνες yearling, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 6.157 (3rd c.BC: Theodoridas Epigrammaticus))]; 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+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 503)]; ὡ. θύννοι Ps.-[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.116b, cf. Hices.[prev. work] 116e, 4th c.BC: Archestratus Epicus “fragment” 38.9, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Plautus Comicus Latinus “Capt.” 851)]; τάριχος ὡ. fish salted or pickled in the season, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 186.5; ἰχθύες ἐς τάγηνον ὡ. 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 6.4)]; σαργάναι ὡ. pickling-tubs, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.27)]: hence generally, agricultural produce, εἶναι ἐνεχυρασίαν Αἰξωνεῦσιν ἐκ τῶν ὡ. τῶν ἐκ τοῦ χωρίου [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 22.2492.8 (4th c.BC).)]
2 τὰ ὡραῖα, ={τὰ καταμήνια}, especially at their first appearance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 34.)]
3 substantive ἡ ὡραία (in full, ὥρη ἡ ὡραίη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.4, 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.128 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus, etc.))], 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+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1390.)]
3.b the campaigning-season, during which the troops kept the field, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.48, 56.30, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.16.7.)]
3.c τὴν μὲν ὡραίην οὐκ ὕει it does not rain in the season (i.e. of rain), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.28.)]
II happening or done in due season, seasonable, ἄροτος, ἔργον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 617.642)]; πλόος [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 630; χειμῶνες 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.14.1; ὕδατα [prev. author] “CP” 2.2.1)]; σκαπάνη [Refs ([prev. work] 3.16.1; τομὴ [καλάμου] [prev. author] “HP” 4.11.4)]; ὅτε ὡραῖον εἴη when the weather permitted, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Αιβυκή” 120.)]
II.2 metaphorically, (ὥρα (C) B) seasonable, due, proper, ὡραίων τυχεῖν, ={νομίμων τυχεῖν} (compare ὥριος (A). [Refs 5th c.BC+ (111.2), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 175: ἐν ὡραί[ᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ])] uncertain in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 668.4 (Delphi, 2nd c.BC); ἐνιαύτια ὡ. [prev. work] 1025.37 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC),compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
III of persons, seasonable or ripe for a thing, c.genitive, ἀνδρὸς ὡραίη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.107, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 4)]; γάμων or γάμου ὡραῖαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196, 6.122, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.9; ἐς ἥβην ὡραίαν γάμων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 12 (ὡραίων codices))]; ὅστις οὐκέθ᾽ ὡραῖος γαμεῖ [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 804)]; ὡ. γάμος seasonable marriage, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 55)]; also of old persons, ripe or ready for death, πατήρ γε μὴν ὡ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 516; αὐτὸς δ᾽, ἐν ὠ. γὰρ ἕσταμεν βίῳ, θνῄσκειν ἕτοιμος [prev. author] “Ph.” 968; θάνατος ὡ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 10.3; σορός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1365; ὡραῖος ἀποτέθνηκεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.178e; so ὕλη ὡ. τέμνεσθαι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.1.1.)]
III.2 in reference to age, in the prime of life, youthful, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 695)]: hence in the bloom of youth, opposed to ἄωρος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.21, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 574c; ὡ. ἐὼν καὶ καλός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.94; παιδίσκη ὡραιοτάτη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1148 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Ra.” 291, 514; παῖς ὡραῖος [prev. author] “Av.” 138)]: but not necessarily implying beauty, τοῖς τῶν ὡραίων προσώποις, καλῶν δὲ μή [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 601b; ἄνευ κάλλους ὡραῖοι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1406b37)]; compare ὥρα (C) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 11.)]
III.3 generally, of things, beautiful, graceful, [LXX+NT (LXX.Gen.3.6, LXX.2Ch.36.19, NT.Matt.23.27; ἡ ὡ. πύλη τοῦ ἱεροῦ NT.Act.3.10, compare 3.2.)]
IV irregular superlative ὡραιέστατος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 186d.)]
V adverb ὡραίως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.8.)]