ἐλάχιστος

ἐλάχιστος, -η, -ον

(see: ἐλάσσων),

smallest, least: as proper superlat., 1 Kor 15,9 elsewhere, as usually in late Gk., intensive (B1., § 11, 3); Matt 2,6 (LXX) Matt 25,40, 45 Luk 12,26; 16,10; 19,17, 1 Kor 4,3; 6,2, Jak 3,4; ἐ. ἐν τ. βασιλείᾳ τ. οὐρανῶν, Matt 5,19 (see Dalman, Words, 113). Compar., ἐλαχιστότερος (for corresp. superl., see LS; see also Bl., § 44, 3); less than the least: Ef 3,8,†