Bible Lexicons

† δοκίμιος , -α , -ον

(< δοκιμή ),

[in LXX: ἀργύριον δ . (H5948), Psalms 12:6; and as v.l. for δόκιμος (B), ἀργυρίου δ . (H2212 pual.), 1 Chronicles 29:4 (Bab); εἰ δ .ίστιν (H3366), Zechariah 11:13 א c a vid, Q *)*;]

= δόκιμος ,

tested, approved: τὸ δ . ὑμῶν τ . πίστεως , that which is approved in your faith, 1 Peter 1:7 (where Hort suggests the v.l. δόκιμος , found in some cursives), James 1:3 (but v. Mayor, in l For full discussion of this word, not hitherto found in a Gk. Lexicon, and for exx. of its use in Papyri, v. Deiss. (to whom is due the credit of its discovery), BS, 259 ff.; MM, Exp., xi; cf. also Milligan, NTD, 76).†

δόκιμος , -ον

(< δέκομαι = δέχομαι ),

[in LXX for H2212 pual., etc.;]

primarily of metals, tested, accepted, approved: of persons, Romans 14:18; Romans 16:10, 1 Corinthians 11:19, 2 Corinthians 10:18; 2 Corinthians 13:7, 2 Timothy 2:15, James 1:12 (Cremer, 212, 697).†

P Hamb I. 2.15 (A.D. 59) ἀργύριον ἐπίσημον δόκιμον ἀρεστὸν ἀνυπόλογον παντὸς ὑπ [ο ]λόγου, P Amh II. 89.9 (A.D. 121) τὸ (l. τὸν) δὲ ἀργυρικὸν φόρον δόκιμον ἄριστον (or ἀριστόν for ἀρεστόν), P Oxy II. 265.25 (A.D. 81–95) τὰ τοῦ χρυσίου δοκίμου μναιαῖα τέσσαρα, P Flor I. 41.16 (A.D. 140) τὸ μὲν ἀργύριον δόκιμον, τὸν δὲ πυρ ̣ὸν νέον καθ (αρὸν) ἄδολ (ον), so ib. 72.11 (A.D. 128–9), etc. The combination with ἀρεστός in the first (and probably the second) citation may partly illustrate the combination of Romans 14:18 (cf. 12.2). In another combination we have the adj. in the Will of Epicteta, Michel 1001 iv. 33 (Theran Doric—c. B.C. 200) παρεξοῦντι δὲ οἱ δωρεὰν ἐπιμηνιεύοντες οἷνον ξενικὸν ἱκανὸν δόκιμον ἕως τριῶν πινόντων.