2239. éthos

Strong's Lexicon

éthos: Custom, habit, manner, character

Original Word: ἦθος
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: éthos
Pronunciation: AY-thos
Phonetic Spelling: (ay'-thos)
Definition: Custom, habit, manner, character
Meaning: habit, manner, custom, morals.

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2239 ēthos (from 1485 /éthos, "habit, custom") – "familiar morals," referring to daily life-style (moral habits, behavioral patterns). 2239 /ēthos ("habits, morally regarded") only occurs in 1 Cor 15:33.

[The English term "ethics" is derived from 2239 /ēthos.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
prol. form of ethos
Definition
custom
NASB Translation
morals (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 2239: ἦθος

ἦθος, ᾔθεος (ἐθους), τό (akin to ἔθος, probably from ἘΩ, whence ἧμαι, έ῾ζω (cf. Vanicek, p. 379));

1. a customary abode, dwelling-place, haunt, customary state (Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, others).

2. custom, usage (cf. German Sitzen,Sitte); plural τά ἤθη morals, character (Latinmores) 1 Corinthians 15:33 from Menander; cf. Menander fragment, Meineke edition, p. 75. (Sir. 20:26 (25); 4 Macc. 1:29; 2:7, 21.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

manners.

A strengthened form of ethos; usage, i.e. (plural) moral habits -- manners.

see GREEK ethos

Forms and Transliterations

ηθη ήθη ἤθη ethe ēthē ḗthe ḗthē

Englishman's Concordance

1 Corinthians 15:33 N-ANP
GRK: πλανᾶσθε φθείρουσιν ἤθη χρηστὰ ὁμιλίαι
NAS: corrupts good morals.
KJV: corrupt good manners.
INT: Be misled corrupts character good companionships

Strong's Greek 2239
1 Occurrence

ἤθη — 1 Occ.