- ἀρετή
- virtue, moral excellence, perfection
- goodness, a gracious act, virtue, uprightness.
- ἀρετή
- virtue
- G:N-F
- ἀρετή, -ῆς, ἡ
[in LXX, in sing.:(הוֹד), in pl.:Refs
Hab.3:3, Zec.6:13(תְּהִלָּה),Refs
Isa.42:8, 12 43:21 63:7* ;]Refs
Wis.4:1 5:13 8:7 2:1-24; 4Mac.2.2
prop., whatever procures pre-eminent estimation for a person or thing, in Hom. any kind of conspicuous advantage. Later confined by philos. writers to intrinsic eminence-moral goodness, virtue;
__(a) of God: 2Pe.1:3;
__(b) of men:; pl. (Isa, Es, ll. with), excellencies: 1Pe.2:9 (the usage appears to be a survival of an early comprehensive sense in which the original idea is blended with the impression which it makes on others, i.e. praise, renown; see Hort, 1 Pe., 129. Deiss., BS, 95 f., thinks it means manifestations of divine power, as in current Gk. speech; cf. also MM, see word)†Refs
Php.4:8, 2Pe.1:5
(AS)
1) a virtuous course of thought, feeling and action
1a) virtue, moral goodness
2) any particular moral excellence, as modesty, purity
1a) virtue, moral goodness
2) any particular moral excellence, as modesty, purity
ἀρέτη
aretē
ar-et'-ay
From the same as G730; properly manliness (valor), that is, excellence (intrinsic or attributed)
KJV Usage: praise, virtue.