What does ὡραῖος (hōraîos) mean in the Bible?
ὡραῖος (hōraîos): Beauty tied to ripeness and proper timing; aesthetically pleasing in its season or maturity
Greek · G5611
ὡραῖος
Beautiful
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ὡραῖος G5611
Pronunciation hōraîos
What does ὡραῖος (hōraîos) mean in the Bible?
ὡραῖος (hōraîos): Beauty tied to ripeness and proper timing; aesthetically pleasing in its season or maturity
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G5611?
The BSB source-word alignment has 4 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include beautiful (3), beautiful [are] (1).
Where does ὡραῖος (hōraîos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 23:27. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (2), Matthew (1), Romans (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 It beautiful 3× Matthew 23:27, Acts 3:2, Acts 3:10
beautiful [are] 1× Romans 10:15
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 23:27
Aligned rows 4
Books represented 3
Matthew 1 Acts 2 Romans 1
Source forms
ὡραῖοι 2x hōraioi Matthew 23:27, Romans 10:15
Ὡραίᾳ 1x Hōraia Acts 3:10
Ὡραίαν 1x Hōraian Acts 3:2
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural 2x Matthew 23:27, Romans 10:15
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Acts 3:2
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular 1x Acts 3:10
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Beauty tied to ripeness and proper timing; aesthetically pleasing in its season or maturity
Strong's G5611
Lexical occurrences 4 verses Greek text appearances 4 times Word forms 3 forms 4 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
Beautiful
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Beauty tied to ripeness and proper timing; aesthetically pleasing in its season or maturity
(ὥρα), [in LXX for נָאָה, טוֹב, יָפָה, etc. ;] seasonable, timely, esp. of ripe fruits; hence, blooming, beautiful (both of things and persons): Mat.23:27, Act.3:2, 10, Rom.10:15 (LXX, ὥρα).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
4 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 23:27 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
ὡραῖοι, wraioi
fair, beautiful
Read verse Acts 3:2 Adjective Accusative Singular Feminine
Ὡραίαν, wraian
fair, beautiful
Read verse Acts 3:10 Adjective Dative Singular Feminine
Ὡραίᾳ wraia
fair, beautiful
Read verse Romans 10:15 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
ὡραῖοι wraioi
fair, beautiful
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 patterns 3 Aligned forms 4 Case pattern Nominative (2) Number pattern Plural (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Matt 23:27 · Rom 10:15 2×
Dative · Singular · Feminine Acts 3:10 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Acts 3:2 1×
Word Origins
ὡραῖος is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain