עָתִיק
choice
also: eminent, surpassing, splendid fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6266 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah 1 verse
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.
עתיק (ʻâthîyq) is a Hebrew adjective most often rendered “choice.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Isaiah 23:18. Ranging over 2 senses, its meaning includes “eminent”, “surpassing”, and “splendid”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6266 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Durable 1×
- American Standard Version: Durable 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fine 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fine 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6266 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6266 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6266 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6266 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB 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.
- eminent, surpassing, choice, splendid
- (TWOT) durable
Word origin
adj. eminent, surpassing, choice (v. עָתֵק);—מְכַסֶּה ע׳ Is 23:18 choice attire.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עתק (ʻâthaq) (H6275) — to advance.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עַתִּיק
- 1. (b. h.; old, ancient. Yalk. Chr. 1074 (ref. to I Chr. IV, 22) הדברים הללו מעַתִּיקוֹ של עולם these words come from the Ancient One of the world (v. next w.); v. עָתַק I Hif.—[ (עָתַק I) remote.—Pl. עַתִּיקִים. Ib. (anoth. explan. of I Chr. l. c.) הדברים האלו סתומין כאן וכ׳ (not אמורין) these words are obscure here, but explained elsewhere; Ruth R. to I, 1 (s. 2).] e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:22
עַתִּיק ²
- (preced.) enduring, strong, old. Targ. Num. VI, 3. Targ. O. Lev. XIII, 11 (Y. עתיקותא, read: עַתִּיקְתָּא); a. fr.—Pes. 119ᵃ (ref. to ולמכסה עתיק, Is. XXIII, 18) דברים שכיסה ע׳ יומין the things which the Ancient of days (Dan. VII, 22) has hidden. B. Bath. 91ᵇ (ref. to I Chr. IV, 22, v. preced.) דברים הללו ע׳ יומיא אמרן the Ancient of days has said these things; Yalk. Ruth 600. B. Kam. 96ᵇ גזלנא ע׳ an inveterate robber. Pes. 42ᵇ (expl. יין ישן) ע׳ עַתִּיקֵי very old wine. Yoma 29ᵃ מיגמר בע׳ וכ׳, v. גְּמַר II; a. e.—[B. Bath. 91ᵇ bot., v. עוּתְקָא.]—Pl. עַתִּיקִין, עַתִּיקַיָּא, עַתִּיקֵי. Targ. I Kings VIII, 2 (h. text האתנים).—Y. Shek. II, beg. 46ᶜ תקלין ע׳ old Shekels. Pes. l. c., v. supra; a. e. e.g. Isaiah 23:18
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6266, 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
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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