κράτιστος
mightiest
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Degree
- Superlative
- Expresses the greatest degree (“greatest,” “most”).
2 verses where G2903 appears in the Vocative case in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
κρατιστος (krátistos) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “mightiest.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. Acts dominates its distribution — 3 of 4 verses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 1:3. Sharing its root, it stands alongside κρατος, καρτερεω and κραταιος. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2903 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 100%
- Gospels 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Most excellent 2×, Most noble 2×
- American Standard Version: Most excellent 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Most excellent 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Most excellent 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2903 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2903 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2903 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2903 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- mightiest, strongest, noblest, most illustrious, best, most excellent
Word origin
Derived from κρατος (krátos) (G2904) — power.
Superlative of a derivative of G2904 ; strongest that is (in dignity) very honorable : - most excellent (noble).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2903 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| κράτιστε krátiste | Adjective, Vocative, Singular, Masculine, Superlative | Luke 1:3 | 3 |
| κρατίστῳ kratístō | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine, Superlative | Acts 23:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2903, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- καρτερεω karteréō G2594 to be steadfast
- κραταιος krataiós G2900 mighty
- κρατεω kratéō G2902 to have power
- κρειττων kreíttōn G2909 more excellent
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
