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Strong's #1646 - ἐλάχιστος
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- smallest least
- in size
- in amount: of management of affairs
- in importance: what is the least moment
- in authority: of commandments
- in the estimation of men: of persons
- in rank and excellence: of persons
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ἐλᾰχιστ-ος [ ᾰ], η, ον,
Sup. of ἐλαχύς: Comp. ἐλάσσων (q.v.): —
I
1. smallest, least, freq. with a neg., γέρας, δύναμις οὐκ ἐ., h.Merc. 573, Hdt. 7.168, etc.; λόγου ἐλαχίστου of least account, Id. 1.143; ἐλαχίστου ἐδέησε διαφθεῖραι narrowly missed destroying them, Th. 2.77; περὶ ἐλαχίστου ποιεῖσθαι Pl. Ap. 30a; παρ' ἐλάχιστον ἐποίησεν αὐτοὺς ἀφαιρεθῆναι D. 17.22.
2. of Time, shortest, δι' ἐλαχίστου (sc. χρόνου) Th. 3.39; δι' ἐλαχίστης βουλῆς with shortest deliberation, Id. 1.138.
3. of Number, fewest, Pl. R. 378a; ἐ. τὸν ἀριθμόν Arist. Pol. 1312a30; ἐν ἐλαχίστοις δυσίν between two at least. Id. EN 1131a15.
4. Math., ἐλάχιστα καὶ μέγιστα minima and maxima, Apollon.Perg. Con. 1 Praef.
II τὸ ἐλάχιστον, τοὐλάχιστον, at the least, Hdt. 2.13, X. An. 5.7.8, D. 4.21; ἐλάχιστα least of any one, Th. 1.70; ὡς ἐ. as little as possible, Pl. Phd. 63d.
III from ἐλάχιστος came a new Comp. ἐλαχιστότερος less than the least, ἐ. πάντων ἁγίων Ephesians 3:8 : Sup. ἐλαχιστότατος very least of all, S.E. M. 3.54, 9.406.
ἐλάχιστος, ἐλαχίστη, ἐλάχιστον (superlative of the adjective μικρός, but coming from ἐλαχύς) ((Homer h. Merc. 573), Herodotus down), smallest, least — whether in size: James 3:4; in amount: of the management of affairs, πιστός ἐν ἐλαχίστῳ, Luke 16:10 (opposed to ἐν πολλῷ);
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ἐλάχιστος , -η , -ον
(see ἐλάσσων ),
smallest, least: as proper superlat., 1 Corinthians 15:9; elsewhere, as usually in late Gk., intensive (B1., § 11, 3); Matthew 2:6 (LXX) Matthew 25:40; Matthew 25:45 Luke 12:26; Luke 16:10; Luke 19:17, 1 Corinthians 4:3; 1 Corinthians 6:2, James 3:4; ἐ . ἐν τ . βασιλείᾳ τ . οὐρανῶν , Matthew 5:19 (v. Dalman, Words, 113). Compar., ἐλαχιστότερος (for corresp. superl., v. LS; v. also Bl., § 44, 3); less than the least: Ephesians 3:8.†
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For this form as a true superlative, as in 1 Corinthians 15:9 (cf. Proleg. p. 79), we may cite P Tebt I. 24.67 (B.C. 117) ἐπὶ τὸ ἐλάχιστον, ";at least"; : the document is official, though written in very bad Greek. It survives even as late as viii/A.D. in P Lond 77.32 (= I. p. 233) ἀπὸ μικροῦ εἴδους ἕως ἐλαχίστου. The phrase ἐν ἐλαχίστῳ, as in Luke 16:10, cf. Joshua 6:26, occurs in P Cattv. 23 (ii/A.D.) (= Chrest. II. p. 422), and the plur. in P Hib I. 27.35 (B.C. 301–240) ὡς οὖν ἠδυνάμην ἀκριβέστατα ἐν ἐλαχίστοις συναγαγεῖν. With reference to persons, as Matthew 5:19, see Syll 418.58 (A.D. 238) καὶ γὰρ ὡς ἀληθῶς ἀπὸ πολλῶν οἰκοδεσποτῶν εἰς ἐλαχίστους κατεληλύθαμεν.
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