Entimos describes someone or something held in honor, highly valued or precious. Luke names the centurion's valued servant, whose sickness prompts an appeal to Jesus, and a more distinguished banquet guest within Jesus' correction of self-exaltation.
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Entimos describes someone or something held in honor, highly valued or precious. Luke names the centurion's valued servant, whose sickness prompts an appeal to Jesus, and a more distinguished banquet guest within Jesus' correction of self-exaltation.
The BSB source-word alignment has 5 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include [and] precious (2), [someone] more distinguished (1), highly valued (1), honor (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 7:2. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (2), Luke (2), Philippians (1).
Entimos describes someone or something held in honor, highly valued or precious. Luke names the centurion's valued servant, whose sickness prompts an appeal to Jesus, and a more distinguished banquet guest within Jesus' correction of self-exaltation. Paul calls the Philippians to welcome Epaphroditus joyfully and honor people like him after his near-fatal service and God's mercy in recovery.
First Peter twice calls the living cornerstone precious: human rejection does not overturn God's choice and valuation of Christ. The word therefore belongs to care, social recognition, costly service and the worth of the chosen stone. These settings must remain distinct. Honor is not a claim that a person can never be questioned, and greater public distinction does not establish greater human dignity.
The passages encourage attentive care, humble seating and grateful reception rather than favoritism or control.
Five direct BSB adjective forms describe the centurion's valued servant, a more distinguished guest, Epaphroditus-type helpers and Christ as God's precious living cornerstone in two linked First Peter verses.
There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die.
The valued servant is seriously ill, and the centurion seeks Jesus' help; being valued leads to care rather than treating a person as expendable labor.
“When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.
A more distinguished guest appears within Jesus' correction of choosing the highest seat, followed by hospitality toward those unable to repay.
Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,
Epaphroditus is to be welcomed with joy and honored after near-fatal service and merciful recovery, rather than shamed for returning home.
As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,
Christ is rejected by human beings but chosen and precious before God as the living stone approached by the community.
For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
The quoted precious cornerstone grounds confidence for those believing in Him, preserving God's placement and the surrounding living-stone community.
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Greek word. valued (figuratively)
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
5 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
precious, honored, honorable
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
ἔντιμος is built from these roots:
Epaphroditus is honored as a brother and fellow worker whose costly service has brought him close to death. Paul also names illness, distress, sorrow and God's mercy, then sends him home so the Philippians may rejoice. Honor here includes welcome and restored fellowship rather than demanding more risk to prove devotion. Luke's centurion likewise values a servant enough to seek help, while the banquet teaching dismantles a race for prominent seats.
First Peter then makes the deepest contrast: Christ remains precious before God despite human rejection. A teacher can bring these witnesses together through careful valuation without equating a helper with the cornerstone or a distinguished guest with a superior kind of person. Faithful honor protects, receives and gives thanks; it neither excuses exploitation nor turns recognition into immunity.
Php.2.29
The adjective appears in singular, plural and comparative forms. Luke 14:8 uses the comparative for a more distinguished guest; the comparison belongs to the seating scene and cannot establish unequal human dignity.
Isaiah 28:14-22 supplies the tested, precious cornerstone within a warning against rulers who hide in lies. First Peter uses the stone promise for confidence in Christ, while the source setting keeps trust joined to truth and justice rather than a claim that a visible status protects wrongdoing.