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Strong's #1384 - δόκιμος
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- accepted, particularly of coins and money.
- accepted, pleasing, acceptable
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δόκῐμ-ος, ον
(Dor. α, ον Tab.Heracl. 1.103), (δέχομαι) acceptable: hence,
1 of persons, trustworthy, Heraclit. 28 (Sup.), Democr. 67; approved, esteemed, Hdt. 1.65, al.; δ. παρά τινι Id. 7.117; δοκιμώτατος Ἑλλάδι most approved by Hellas, her noblest son, E. Supp. 277 (anap.): c. inf., of approved ability to do.., δόκιμος δ' οὔτις.. εἴργειν A. Pers. 87 (lyr.).
2. of things, excellent, τὸ ἔαρ -ώτατον Hdt. 7.162; notable, considerable, ποταμός Id. 7.129; approved, κριθὰ καθαρὰ δ. Tab.Heracl. l. c.; δ. ἀργύριον legal tender, D. 35.24, cf. PLond. 3.938.6 (iii A. D.); ὕμνος acceptable, Pi. N. 3.11.
3. Adv. -μως really, genuinely, A. Pers. 547 (lyr.), X. Cyr. 1.6.7.
δόκιμος, δόκιμον (δέχομαι); from Herodotus down;
1. properly, accepted, particularly of coins and metals, Genesis 23:16; 2 Chronicles 9:17; Lucian, Herm. 68, etc.; hence, universally, proved, tried: in the N. T. one who is of tried faith and integrity (R. V. approved), Romans 16:10 (τόν δόκιμον ἐν Χριστῷ, the approved servant of Christ); 1 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 10:18; 2 Corinthians 13:7; 2 Timothy 2:15 (παρισταναι ἑαυτόν δόκιμον τῷ Θεῷ); James 1:12.
2. accepted, equivalent to acceptable, pleasing: εὐάρεστος τῷ Θεῷ καί δόκιμος (L marginal reading δοκιμοις) τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, Romans 14:18.
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† δοκίμιος , -α , -ον
(< δοκιμή ),
[in LXX: ἀργύριον δ . (H5948), Psalms 12:6; and as v.l. for δόκιμος (B), ἀργυρίου δ . (H2212 pual.), 1 Chronicles 29:4 (Bab); εἰ δ .ίστιν (H3366), Zechariah 11:13 א c a vid, Q *)*;]
= δόκιμος ,
tested, approved: τὸ δ . ὑμῶν τ . πίστεως , that which is approved in your faith, 1 Peter 1:7 (where Hort suggests the v.l. δόκιμος , found in some cursives), James 1:3 (but v. Mayor, in l For full discussion of this word, not hitherto found in a Gk. Lexicon, and for exx. of its use in Papyri, v. Deiss. (to whom is due the credit of its discovery), BS, 259 ff.; MM, Exp., xi; cf. also Milligan, NTD, 76).†
δόκιμος , -ον
(< δέκομαι = δέχομαι ),
[in LXX for H2212 pual., etc.;]
primarily of metals, tested, accepted, approved: of persons, Romans 14:18; Romans 16:10, 1 Corinthians 11:19, 2 Corinthians 10:18; 2 Corinthians 13:7, 2 Timothy 2:15, James 1:12 (Cremer, 212, 697).†
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P Hamb I. 2.15 (A.D. 59) ἀργύριον ἐπίσημον δόκιμον ἀρεστὸν ἀνυπόλογον παντὸς ὑπ [ο ]λόγου, P Amh II. 89.9 (A.D. 121) τὸ (l. τὸν) δὲ ἀργυρικὸν φόρον δόκιμον ἄριστον (or ἀριστόν for ἀρεστόν), P Oxy II. 265.25 (A.D. 81–95) τὰ τοῦ χρυσίου δοκίμου μναιαῖα τέσσαρα, P Flor I. 41.16 (A.D. 140) τὸ μὲν ἀργύριον δόκιμον, τὸν δὲ πυρ ̣ὸν νέον καθ (αρὸν) ἄδολ (ον), so ib. 72.11 (A.D. 128–9), etc. The combination with ἀρεστός in the first (and probably the second) citation may partly illustrate the combination of Romans 14:18 (cf. 12.2). In another combination we have the adj. in the Will of Epicteta, Michel 1001 iv. 33 (Theran Doric—c. B.C. 200) παρεξοῦντι δὲ οἱ δωρεὰν ἐπιμηνιεύοντες οἷνον ξενικὸν ἱκανὸν δόκιμον ἕως τριῶν πινόντων.
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