Lexical Summary kratistos: strongest, noblest Original Word: κράτιστοςTransliteration: kratistos Phonetic Spelling: (krat'-is-tos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: strongest, noblest Meaning: strongest, noblest Strong's Concordance most excellent, noble. Superlative of a derivative of kratos; strongest, i.e. (in dignity) very honorable -- most excellent (noble). see GREEK kratos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2903: κράτιστοςκράτιστος, κρατίστη, κράτιστον, superlative of the adjective κρατύς (κράτος) (from (Homer) Pindar down), mightiest, strongest, noblest, most illustrious, best, most excellent: vocative κράτιστε used in addressing men of conspicuous rank or office, Acts 23:26; Acts 24:3; Acts 26:25, (Otto, De ep. ad Diognetum etc. Jena 1845, p. 79ff, and in his Epist. ad Diognet. Leips. edition, p. 53f, has brought together examples from later writings). Perhaps also it served simply to express friendship in Luke 1:3 (as in Theophrastus, char. 5; Dionysius Halicarnassus, de oratt. 1; Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 8), because in Acts 1:1 it is omitted in addressing the same person. Cf. Grimm in Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. for 1871, p. 50f. |
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