Strong’s G4186 · Greek
πολύτιμος
polýtimos · pol-oot'-ee-mos
Origin from πολύς (G4183) and τιμή (G5092);
Meaning extremely valuable
In the King James Version very costly, of great price.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Matthew 13:46Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
- John 12:3Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.