ἀληθής

ἀληθής, -ές

(λήθω = λανθάνω, hence primarily, unconcealed, manifest; hence, actual, real), [in LXX for אֶמֶת, etc. ;]

(a) of things, true, conforming to reality: Joh 4,18; 5,31-32; 6,55 (= ἀληθινός, which see) Joh 8,13-14, 17; 10,41; 19,35; 21,24, ApG 12,9, Fil 4,8, Tit 1,13, 1 Pet 5,12, 2 Pet 2,22, 1 Joh 2,6, 3 Joh 12;

(b) of persons, truthful: Matt 22,16, Mark 12,14, Joh 3,33; 7,18; 8,26, Rom 3,4, 2 Kor 6,8.†

SYN.: ἀληθινός, real, genuine, ideal, as opposite to spurious or imperfect ἀληθής, true to fact, as opposite to false, lying, denotes the actuality of a thing: ἀληθινός, its relation to the corresponding con­ception. (Cf. Tr., Syn., § viii; Cremer, 84 f., 631 Abbott, JV, 234 f.; DB, iv, 818 f.; MM, VGT, s.vv.)