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βέβαιος

bebaios

firm, steady

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Where it lives

  • 2 Peter 2 · 18.47/10k
  • Hebrews 5 · 9.96/10k
  • Machabaeourum III 3 · 5.97/10k
  • Epistles 9 · 5.31/10k
  • History 68 · 4.55/10k
  • Menexenus 2 · 4.16/10k
  • Electra 3 · 3.97/10k
  • Heracles 3 · 3.83/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
  • Philebus 6 · 3.4/10k
  • Eudemian Ethics 8 · 3.07/10k
  • Theages 1 · 2.88/10k

Densest 12 of 54 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. βέβαιος · bebaios — Beekes

βέβαιος [adj.} ‘firm, steady’ (Parm., IA). *DER βεβαιότης [f.] ‘stability (Pl.), denominative βεβαιόω ‘establish’ (IA). *ETYM Generally connected with βῆναι, though the formation is unclear; it is hardly from ἔβεβα-υσ-ιος, as per Wackernagel 1916: 113' (cf. *f15-vo-tog > ἰδυιος). — [Beekes, s.v. βέβαιος, p. 256]

2. βέβαιος · bebaios — Chantraine

βέβαιος, βέδηλος, βωμός, βητάρμων. Voir Pokorny 463. — [Chantraine, s.v. βέβαιος, p. 172]

3. βέβαιος · bebaios — Frisk

βέβαιος “fest, sicher, standhaft” (ion. att. usw.).. — Davon βεβαιότης f. "Festigkeit, Sicherheit” (Pl. Th. usw.) und das Denominativum βεβαιόω "befestigen, (ver)sichern, verbürgen’ (ion. att.) mit mehreren Ableitungen: nwgr. βεβαιωτήρ, ion. att. βεβαιωτής “Bürge’ (vgl. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 158, 160, 214; 2,206; Erika Kretschmer Glotta 18, 90, Benveniste Noms d’agent 43f.), f. βεβαιώτρια (Pap.), Adj. Beßauwrıxdc … — [Frisk, s.v. βέβαιος, p. 260]

4. βέβαιος · bebaios — LSJ

firm, steady, terra firma, steadfast, durable

firm, steady, κρύσταλλος Th. 3.23; ὄχημα Pl. Phd. 85d (Comp.); γῆ β. terra firma, Arr. An. 2.21.5; steadfast, durable, ὁμιλία . . πιστὴ καὶ βέβαιος S. Ph. 71; ἀρετῆς βέβαιαι . . αἱ κτήσεις μόνης Id. Fr. 194; ψῆφος βεβαία E. El. 1263; τὴν χάριν βέβαιον ἔχειν Th. 1.32; οὐδέπω βέβαιος ἦν ἡ σωτηρία And. 1.53; εἰρήνην βεβαίαν ἀγαγεῖν Isoc. 4.173; φιλία βέβαιος Pl. Smp. 182c; βεβαίου τε καὶ καθαρᾶς ἡδονῆς γεύεσθαι Id. R. 586a; δόξαι καὶ πίστεις βέβαιοι καὶ ἀληθεῖς Id. Ti. 37b, etc.

b sure, certain, safe, secure, surer, confirm, guarantee

sure, certain, τέκμαρ A. Pr. 456; ἄκεα Id. Eu. 506 (lyr.); τοξεύματα S. Ant. 1086; πύλας β. παρέχειν make safe, secure, Th. 4.67; βεβαιότερος κίνδυνος a surer game, Id. 3.39: Sup. -ότατος Id. 1.124; βέβαιόν ἐστί τινι ὅτι . . D.H. 3.35; τὰ παρʼ ἀνθρώπων αὐτῷ β. ἦν ibid.; but β. παρέχειν τὰν ὠνάν confirm, guarantee, GDI 1867, al. (Delph.); μένειν κυρίαν καὶ β. . . συγχώρησιν BGU 1058.47 (i B. C.).

2 steadfast, constant, more certain

of persons, etc., steadfast, constant, φίλος A. Pr. 299 (Comp.), cf. Th. 5.43, etc.: c. inf., βεβαιότεροι μηδὲν νεωτεριεῖν more certain to make no change, Th. 3.11.

3 certainty, firmness, resolution

τό β. certainty, Hdt. 7.50, cf. Pl. Phlb. 59c, etc.; but τὸ β. τῆς διανοίας firmness, resolution, Th. 2.89.

b security, guarantee

security, guarantee, τὸ δημόσιον β. IG 1(2).189.

II

Adv. -ως A. Ag. 15; β. κλῃστόν Th. 2.17; β. οἰκεῖσθαι Id. 1.2; ἔχειν, γνῶναι, δημοκρατεῖσθαι, D. 8.41, 39, 10.4: Comp. -ότερον, οἰκεῖν Th. 1.8; -οτέρως Isoc. 8.60, Porph. Abst. 1.11: Sup. -ότατα Th. 6.91.

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