Original Word: ἰσότιμος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: isotimos
Phonetic Spelling: (ee-sot'-ee-mos)
Short Definition: equally privileged, equal
Definition: equally privileged, equal in honor.

Cognate: 2472 isótimos (from 2470 /ísos, "equivalent, equal" and 5092 /timḗ, "assigned price, value") – properly, having the same (equal) value; "equally privileged, held in equal honor" (Abbott-Smith); of consistent value (preciousness, make-up) and therefore deserving equal respect (recognition). 2472 (isótimos) is only used in 2 Pet 1:1 of "like precious faith" (isotimos pistis), conveying that every faith-decision (action) has equal, eternal value.

STRONGS NT 2472: ἰσότιμος

ἰσότιμος, ἰσότιμον (ἴσος and τιμή), equally precious; equally honored: τίνι, to be esteemed equal to, ἰσότιμον ἡμῖν πίστιν (a like-precious faith with us), concisely for πίστιν τῇ ἡμῶν πίστει ἰσότιμον (Winers Grammar, § 66, 2f.; Buttmann, § 133, 10): 2 Peter 1:1. (Philo, Josephus, Plutarch, Lucian, Aelian, others.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

equal, like, of the same kind

From isos and time; of equal value or honor -- like precious.

see GREEK isos

see GREEK time

Forms and Transliterations

ισοτιμον ισότιμον ἰσότιμον isotimon isótimon

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