Quick Definition
stricter
Strong's Definition
(adverbially) more exactly
Derivation: neuter of the comparative of the same as G196 (ἀκριβέστατος);
KJV Usage: more perfect(-ly)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀκριβής, -€s, zen. -ods, exact, careful. The neut. compar. | is used adverbially in Acts xviii. 26; xxiii. 15, 20; xxiv. 22; ἡ ἀκριβεστάτη αἵρεσις the straitest sect i.e. the most precise and rigorous in interpreting the Mosaic law, and in observing even the more minute precepts of the law and of tradition, Acts xxvi. 5. [From Hdt. down.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀκριβῶς akribōs 9x
accurately, diligently, Mt. 2:8; Lk. 1:3; Acts 18:25; circumspectly, strictly, Eph. 5:15; precisely, distinctly, 1 Thess. 5:2
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀκριβῶς adv.
(< ἀκριβής), [in LXX: De 19:18 (יָטַב), Da TH 7:19 (יְצֵב), Ez 39:14, Wi 19:18, Si 18:29;]
with exactness, carefully: Mt 2:8, Lk 1:3, Ac 18:25, Eph 5:15, I Th 5:2 (M, Th., in l.). Compar., ἀκριβέστερον (Milligan, NTD, 111; MM, VGT, s.v.), Ac 18:26 23:15, 20 24:22.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀκριβῶς. For ἀ. with οἶδα, as 1 Th 5%, cf. P Goodsp Cairo 35: (i1i/B.C.) ὅπως ἀκριβῶς εἰδῆις, P Petr 11. 15 (1)! (iii/.c.) εἰδῆσαι ἀκριβῶς : cf. P Hib I. 4o8*. (iii/B.c.) ἐπίστασο μέντοι ἀκριβῶς, P Par 447 (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski 2.22.2 p. 83) διασάφηϊ]σόν μοι. . . τὰ περὶ σαυτὸν ἀκριβῶς, P Lond 354 (c. B.C. 10) ( -- 1. p. 165) ἐπιγνόντα ἀκρειβῶς ἕκαστα. The comparative is used very much as in Ac 2315, 30 jn P Oxy VIII. 1102" (c. A.D. 146), the strategus ἀκρειβέστερον ἥξει “Αρπαλος καὶ thera σθήσεται περὶ τούτου axpeBéo[T]epov: the combination was evidently a formula. With πυνθάνεσθαι (as in Ac 23°) cf. P Petr II. 16! (iii/p.c.) πευσόμεσθα ἀκριβέστερον. The superlative occurs in P Hib I. 27%. 84 (early iii/B.C.) ὡς οὖν ἠδυνάμην ἀκριβέστατα.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀκριβέστερον (akribesteron) — stricter. ἀκρῑβ-ής, ές, exact, accurate, precise, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τριταῖος returning precisely at its time, [Refs]; γαλήνη complete calm, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
II. of persons, precise, strict, δικασταί[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τοῖς ὄμμασι sharp- sighted, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of arguments, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἀ., ={ἀκρίβεια}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]adverb -βῶς to a nicety, precisely, ἀ. εἰδέναι, ἐπίστασθαι, καθορᾶν, μαθεῖν, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἁπλῶς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to τύπῳ (in outline, roughly), [Refs 4th c.BC+]: comparative -έστερον[NT+5th c.BC+]: superlative -έστατα[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. καὶ μόλις with greatest difficulty, [Refs 1st c.AD+] —also οὐκ εἰς ἀκριβὲς ἦλθες at the right moment, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. in the strict sense of the word, ὁ ἀ. ἰατρός[Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. b pure-bred, genuine, Κόλχος[Refs 4th c.AD+]
II.2. c Astron., true, opposed to φαινόμενος, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
II.3. parsimonious, stingy, ἀ. τοὺς τρόπους[Refs 4th c.BC+]. adverb -βῶς, διαιτᾶσθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+] —Rare except in _Attic dialect_, mostly Prose. (The sense points to ἄκρος as the first part of the word, but -ῑβης remains uncertain)
