What does πολυτελής (polytelḗs) mean in the Bible?
πολυτελής (polytelḗs): Costly luxury item commanding high price; used metaphorically for spiritual beauty surpassing material value.
Greek · G4185
πολυτελής
Extremely expensive
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πολυτελήςG4185
Pronunciationpolytelḗs
What does πολυτελής (polytelḗs) mean in the Bible?
πολυτελής (polytelḗs): Costly luxury item commanding high price; used metaphorically for spiritual beauty surpassing material value.
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How does the BSB render G4185?
The BSB source-word alignment has 3 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include expensive (1), of expensive (1), precious (1).
Where does πολυτελής (polytelḗs) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 14:3. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (1), 1 Timothy (1), Mark (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itexpensive1×1 Timothy 2:9
of expensive1×Mark 14:3
precious1×1 Peter 3:4
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowMark 14:3
Aligned rows3
Books represented3
Mark11 Timothy11 Peter1
Source forms
πολυτελεῖ1xpolytelei1 Timothy 2:9
πολυτελές1xpolyteles1 Peter 3:4
πολυτελοῦς1xpolytelousMark 14:3
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Dative Masculine Singular1x1 Timothy 2:9
Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular1xMark 14:3
Adjective - Nominative Neuter Singular1x1 Peter 3:4
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Costly luxury item commanding high price; used metaphorically for spiritual beauty surpassing material value.
Strong'sG4185
Lexical occurrences3 versesGreek text appearances3 timesWord forms3 forms3 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Study linkProverbs 8:1-11Source Gloss
extremely expensive
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Mark 14:3Adjective Genitive Singular Feminine
πολυτελοῦς·polutelouv
very costly, very precious
Read verse1 Timothy 2:9Adjective Dative Singular Masculine
πολυτελεῖ,polutelei
very costly, very precious
Read verse1 Peter 3:4Adjective Nominative Singular Neuter
πολυτελές.polutelev
very costly, very precious
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.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 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.
Form patterns3Aligned forms3Case patternDative (1)Number patternSingular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Neuter1 Pet 3:41×
Genitive · Singular · FeminineMark 14:31×
Dative · Singular · Masculine1 Tim 2:91×
Selected Scripture Witness
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Biblical Witnesses
Wisdom described as valuable and costly, surpassing material wealth
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Word Origins
πολυτελής is built from these roots:
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