The word is of frequent occurrence in the NT, and represents various Greek terms; , , , . The root idea is something of great worth, which also becomes precious or an honour to those who possess it. It is applied to jewels (Rev 17:4; Rev 18:12; Rev 18:16; Rev 21:11; Rev 21:19), to wood (Rev 18:12), to the fruit of the earth (Jam 5:7), to costly stones used in building, i.e. stones of large size or of great price, like marble, etc. (1Pe 2:4; 1Pe 2:6, 1Co 3:12; cf. 2Ch 3:6). It is also applied to the great promises (2Pe 1:4), to the blood of Christ (1Pe 1:19), and to faith, equally precious faith (2Pe 1:1, RVm_). The AV_ rendering of 1Pe 2:7, Unto you therefore which believe he is precious is changed in RV_ to For you therefore which believe is the preciousness. In this passage the RVm_ honour is to be preferred (sec Honour).<\/p>\n
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preshus (stands for 17 different words, chief of which are , yakar; , tmios): (1) Generally in the literal sense, of great price, costly, expensive, of material things (e.g. Pro 1:13; Jer 20:5; Mar 14:3 the King James Version), especially of precious stones (2Sa 12:30; 2Ch 3:6; 1Co 3:12 the King James Version, etc.). (2) Sometimes of great moral (non-material) value. Precious in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints (Psa 116:15); his precious and exceeding great promises (2Pe 1:4); compare Psa 139:17; 2Pe 1:1. The literal and the moral senses are both involved in the expression, knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things,… but with precious blood (1Pe 1:18, 1Pe 1:19). Preciousness (, time) occurs in 1Pe 2:7 the American Standard Revised Version, the English Revised Version, for the King James Version precious.<\/p>\n
Precious The word is of frequent occurrence in the NT, and represents various Greek terms; , , , . The root idea is something of great worth, which also becomes precious or an honour to those who possess it. It is applied to jewels (Rev 17:4; Rev 18:12; Rev 18:16; Rev 21:11; Rev 21:19), to … Continue reading “Precious”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}