Precious
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G5093 describes something precious, costly, highly valued, or held in honor. First Peter 1:19 calls Christ's blood precious, directing readers to the immeasurable worth of his self-giving rather than a material price.
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G5093 describes something precious, costly, highly valued, or held in honor. First Peter 1:19 calls Christ's blood precious, directing readers to the immeasurable worth of his self-giving rather than a material price.
The BSB source-word alignment has 13 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include precious (8), a most precious (1), should be honored (1), value (1), who was honored (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 5:34. Its strongest book concentrations include Revelation (6), Acts (2), 1 Corinthians (1), 1 Peter (1).
G5093 describes something precious, costly, highly valued, or held in honor. First Peter 1:19 calls Christ's blood precious, directing readers to the immeasurable worth of his self-giving rather than a material price. Second Peter 1:4 speaks of precious and very great promises through which believers share in God's transforming gift. Hebrews 13:4 says marriage should be held in honor among all while also naming sexual faithfulness and judgment.
James 5:7 calls the earth's crop precious as the farmer waits patiently for rain. The adjective does not make every valued object equally valuable or every socially honored person morally superior. G5093 can describe stones, commodities, promises, life, marriage, faith, and redemptive realities according to context. It helps teachers name worth with precision while resisting status hierarchies, commodification, marital coercion, prosperity logic, and careless comparison among people whose dignity is not measured by price or usefulness.
G5093 assigns high value or honor to material goods, crops, human life, marriage, faith, divine promises, and Christ's blood. The noun it modifies and the larger argument explain what kind of preciousness is meant.
But with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
Christ's precious blood stands over against perishable purchase, presenting his unblemished self-giving as the ground of redemption.
Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
God grants precious and very great promises within a call to participate in divine life and escape corrupt desire.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Marriage is to be held in honor among all, alongside sexual faithfulness and God's judgment, without making marriage the sole path to honored adulthood.
Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
The farmer waits for the precious crop and seasonal rains, illustrating patient endurance rather than guaranteed agricultural success.
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Greek word. Valuable because highly esteemed; denotes worth both monetary and relational, particularly honor.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
14 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 10 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.
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G5093 is a value word, but Scripture does not let value collapse into price. Christ's blood is precious because the sinless Son gives himself in redemption, not because salvation can be calculated as a commodity. God's promises are precious because they are trustworthy gifts that draw believers into transformed life, not blank checks for preferred outcomes. Hebrews commands honor for marriage, yet that honor must not become pressure to marry, remain in danger, conceal sexual harm, or treat unmarried people as incomplete.
Marriage is honored when fidelity, truth, mutual dignity, and safety are honored. James's precious crop belongs to patient farming dependent on rain; the image dignifies labor and waiting without guaranteeing yield or blaming farmers when weather, conflict, or systems destroy a harvest. G5093 teaches communities to honor what God calls valuable while refusing competitive human worth.
People do not become more precious through wealth, productivity, marriage, platform, health, or proximity to leadership. Proper honor produces protection, gratitude, patience, faithful use, and noncommercial worship. It never licenses possession, control, exploitation, or silence about harm.
1Pet.1.19
G5093 is a Greek adjective meaning precious, costly, valuable, or honored. Its force depends on the noun and comparison: it can express material price, social honor, treasured benefit, or incomparable theological worth.
Old Testament wisdom often compares instruction, a good name, and faithful speech with precious metals and stones. New Testament G5093 applies value language to Christ, promises, faith, marriage, crops, life, and materials, requiring each value claim to follow its own context.