ὡραῖος
hōraios
“Beautiful”
Definition
belonging to the right hour or season (timely), i.e. (by implication) flourishing (beauteous (figuratively))
from G5610 (ὥρα);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
G:A
Greek Adjective
Occurrences
ὡραῖος appears 4 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
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