Gloss
not ordinary, beautiful, pleasing
Forms of the word
Dictionary
ἀστεῖος, α, ον
Greek transliteration
asteios
Simplified transliteration
asteios
Numbers
Strong's number
791
GK Number
842
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
2
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
a-1a(1)
Definition
pr. belonging to a city; well bred, polite, polished; hence, elegant, fair, comely, beautiful, Acts 7:20; Heb. 11:23*
Greek-English Concordance for ἀστεῖος
| Acts 7:20 | At which time Moses was born, and he was beautiful (asteios | ἀστεῖος | nom sg masc) before God. He was brought up for three months in his father’s house; |
| Hebrews 11:23 | By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was an extraordinary (asteion | ἀστεῖον | acc sg neut) child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. |
