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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ἀκριβέστατος

(Strong's #196 — Adjective — akribestatos — ak-ree-bes'-ta-tos )

the superlative degree of akribes, "accurate, exact" (cp. akribos, see ACCURATELY and associated words there), occurs in Acts 26:5 , "the straitest (sect)," RV (AV, "most straitest").

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Straitest'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​s/straitest.html. 1940.
 
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