Quick Definition
fair, beautiful
Biblical Persons & Places
Beautiful_Gate
Beautiful Gate= in Jerusalem (Jerusalem@Gen.14.18-Rev=H3389)
A location in Jerusalem first mentioned at Act.3.2;
only referred to as Beautiful Gate (ὡραῖος).
Strong's Definition
belonging to the right hour or season (timely), i.e. (by implication) flourishing (beauteous (figuratively))
Derivation: from G5610 (ὥρα);
KJV Usage: beautiful
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὡραῖος, ὡραία, ὡραῖον (from ὥρα, 'the bloom and vigor of life,' 'beauty' in the Greek writings, who sometimes join the word in this sense with χάρις (which suggests grace of movement) or κάλλος (which denotes, rather, symmetry of form)), from Hesiod down, ripe, mature (of fruits, of human age, etc.); hence, blooming, beautiful (of the human body, Xenophon, Plato, others; with τῇ ὄψει added, Gen_26:7; Gen_29:17; Gen_39:6; 1Ki_1:6): πόδες, Rom_10:15; of a certain gate of the temple, Act_3:2; Act_3:10; (τάφοι κεκονιάμενοι, Mat_23:27); σκεῦος, 2Ch_36:19. (Cf. Trench, Synonyms, § cvi.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὡρᾶιος hōraios 4x
timely, seasonable; in prime, blooming; in NT beautiful, Mat_23:27 ; Act_3:2 ; Act_3:10 ; Rom_10:15
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ὡραῖος , -α , -ον ,
( <ὥρα ),
[in LXX for H4999 , H2896 , H3302 , etc.;]
seasonable , timely , esp . of ripe fruits; hence, blooming , beautiful (both of things and persons): Mat_23:27 , Act_3:2 ; Act_3:10 , Rom_10:15 ( LXX , ὥρα ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὡραῖος [page 702]
lit. in season ( Mat_23:27 , al. ) : cf. PSI V. 535 .44 (Prol.) ταρίχου ὡραίων ἀπολέκτων πεπονηκὸς Θάσι <ον > κερ (άμιον ) ᾱ , ib. 598 .7 (iii/B.C.257 6) σφόγγων ὡραίου κερ (άμιον ) ἒ̣ν δέδωκεν , ib. (iii/B.C.) ὡραίων κεράμια β̄ , and Kaibel 812 .4 (ii/A.D.)
ὅπως ῥαδ ]ινὴ διὰ παντός
ἄμπελος ὡραῖον καρπὸν ἔχῃ βοτρύων .
In P Goodsp Cairo 2 i. 4 (ii/A.D.) we have a medical fragment containing a warning against τῶν ὡραίων , ripe fruits, where the editor notes the generally colourless character of ὡραῖος , and cites Athenaeus Deipnosophistae 116E ὡραῖα sc. ταρίχη , meaning fish pickled in the season. For the derived meaning in the bloom of youth, beautiful, cf. the magic P Lond 125 verso 13 (v/A.D.) (= I. p. 124) γυναῖκαν . . . ὡραίαν καὶ [ν ]έαν . In Syll .3 668 .4 (B.C. 160 59) ἐν ὡραί [αι ἐκκλησίαι , the editor understands the adj. in the sense of ἔννομος , νόμιμος . For the adj. ὥριμος , see P Tebt I. 54 .6 (B.C. 86) κλήρου ἀρου (ρῶν ) ῑ . . ὡρίμου σπαρῆναι , the holding of 10 arourae ready for sowing.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ὡραῖος ὡραῖος, η, ον "produced at the right season" (ὥρα), "seasonable, timely": esp. of fruits, like Lat. hornus (from "hora)", βίος or βίοτος ὡρ. store of "fruits gathered in due season", Hes. ; ὡρ. καρποί the fruits "of the season", Hdt. ; so ὡραῖα, ων, τά, Thuc. , Xen. :—also of animals, ὡρ. ἄρνες "yearling" lambs, Anth. ἡ ὡραία, like ὥρα 1. 2, "the summer season", esp. the months during which the troops kept the field, Dem. ; —but also, τὴν μὲν ὡραίην οὐχ ὕει it does not rain "in the season" (sc. of rain), Hdt. "happening or done in season, in due season, seasonable", ἄροτος, ἔργον Hes. ; ὡραῖόν ἐστι the weather is "fair", Plut. metaph. "seasonable, due, proper", ὡραῖα ἱερά Plat. of persons, "seasonable or ripe" for a thing, c. gen., γάμων or γάμου ὡραίη Hdt. ; ἐς ἥβην ὡρ. γάμων Eur. : —of old persons, "ripe for death", πατήρ γε μὴν ὡραῖος id=Eur. ; ὡραίῳ ἕσταμεν βίῳ id=Eur. "in the bloom of youth, blooming", Hes. , Xen. :—generally, "beautiful", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ὡραῖος, -α, -ον
(ὥρα), [in LXX for נָאָה, טוֹב, יָפָה, etc. ;]
seasonable, timely, esp. of ripe fruits; hence, blooming, beautiful (both of things and persons): Mat.23:27, Act.3:2, 10, Rom.10:15 (LXX, ὥρα).†
(AS)