πολύτιμος
very valuable
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Degree
- Comparative
- Expresses a greater degree (“greater,” “more”).
Every verse where G4186 appears in the Book of 1 Peter — 1 distinct verse. 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.
1 Peter
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.
“very valuable” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective πολυτιμος (polýtimos). A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. More than half of its appearances fall in Matthew. First canonically at Matthew 13:46, it enters the text early. Related forms include πολυς, πλειστος and πλειων. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4186 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.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 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 section of the New Testament
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.
- Gospels 3 verses · 75%
- Johannine 1 verse · 25%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 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: Great price 1×, Very costly 1×
- American Standard Version: Great price 1×, Very precious 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Expensive 1×, More precious 1×, Very precious 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: More precious than 1×, Very precious 1×, Very valuable 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4186 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4186 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4186 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4186 across 3 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.
- very valuable, of great price
Word origin
Derived from πολυς (polýs) (G4183) — many.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4186 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πολυτίμου polytímou | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 26:7 | 2 |
| πολυτιμότερον polytimóteron | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter, Comparative | 1 Peter 1:7 | 1 |
| πολύτιμον polýtimon | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 13:46 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4186, 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
- πλειστος pleîstos G4118 most
- πλειων pleíōn G4119 greater
- πολλακις pollákis G4178 often
- πολλαπλασιων pollaplasíōn G4179 manifold
- πολυλογια polylogía G4180 much speaking
- πολυμερως polymerōs G4181 by many times
- πολυποικιλος polypoíkilos G4182 much variegated
- πολυσπλαγχνος polýsplanchnos G4184 compassionate
- πολυτελης polytelḗs G4185 precious
- πολυτροπως polytrópōs G4187 in many ways
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 12 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
