χειρῶν: Difference between revisions

|txtha=[[χεῖρον]] (comparitive of [[κακός]]; [[derived]] from the [[obsolete]] χερης, [[which]] has been preserved in the dative χερηι, accusative χερηα, plural χερεης, χερηα; cf. [[Alexander]] Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. i., p. 268 (cf. Ebeling, Lex. [[Homer]] [[under]] the [[word]] χερης) (from Homer down), [[worse]]: γίνεται τά ἔσχατα χείρονα τῶν πρώτων, [[εἰς]] τό [[χεῖρον]] ἔρχεσθαι (to [[grow]] [[worse]]), of [[one]] whose [[illness]] increases, [[ἵνα]] μή [[χεῖρον]] [[σοι]] τί γένηται, [[lest]] [[some]] [[worse]] [[thing]] [[befall]] thee, πόσῳ [[χειρῶν]] [[τιμωρία]] (A. V. [[how]] [[much]] sorer [[punishment]]), [[ἐπί]] τό [[χεῖρον]] προκόπτειν (A. V. [[wax]] [[worse]] and [[worse]]); [[see]] [[προκόπτω]], 2), σπιστου [[χειρῶν]], 1 Timothy 5:8.