Lexical Summary polytelēs: very costly Original Word: πολυτελήςTransliteration: polytelēs Phonetic Spelling: (pol-oo-tel-ace') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: very costly Meaning: very costly Strong's Concordance costly, very precious, of great price. From polus and telos; extremely expensive -- costly, very precious, of great price. see GREEK polus see GREEK telos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4185: πολυτελήςπολυτελής, πολυτελές (πολύς, and τέλος cost) (from Herodotus down), precious; a. requiring great outlay, very costly: Mark 14:3; 1 Timothy 2:9. (Thucydides and following; the Sept.) b. excellent, of surpassing value (A. V. of great price): 1 Peter 3:4. ((Plato, others.)) |