Word 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.