καλός

kalov" kalov",
kalhv,
kalovn (probably primarily `sound,' `hale,' `whole ;' cf. Vanicek, p. 140f; Curtius, sec. 31), the Septuagint for hp,y: beautiful, but much more often for b/f good; beautiful, applied by the Greeks to everything so distinguished in form, excellence, goodness, usefulness, as to be pleasing; hence (according to the context) equivalent to "beautiful, handsome, excellent, eminent, choice, surpassing, precious, useful, suitable, commendable, admirable"; a. beautiful to look at, shapely, magnificent:
livqoi"
kaloi'"
kekovsmhtai (A. V. goodly), . b. good, excellent in its nature and characteristics, and therefore well adapted to its ends: joined to the names of material objects, universally, (equivalent to pure); especially of things so constituted as to answer the purpose for which that class of things was created; good of its kind:
tav
kalav, of fish, opposed to such as are thrown away (
tav
saprav), ;
spevrma, ,,f;
karpov", ; ;; (L WH brackets
kalovn); ;
devndron, opposed to
saprovn, ; ;
gh', ,; ,; ;
kalovn
tov
a{la" (is an excellent thing), ; ; so too
oJ
novmo", good in its substance and nature, and fitted to beget good, ; ;
didaskaliva, true and approved teaching, ;
kardiva
kalhv
kaiv
ajgaqhv, ;
paraqhvkh (which see) (containing (rather, consisting of)
kalav), ;
mevtron, ample measure (rabbinical, hbwf hdm; English good measure), ;
baqmov" (firm (but see
baqmov")), ; also
qemevlio", ; equivalent to genuine, approved,
pavnta
dokimavzete,
tov
kalovn
katevcete, ; equivalent to precious (A. V. goodly),
margari'tai, ; equivalent to superior to other kinds,
oi\no", ; joined to names of men designated by their office, competent, able, such as one ought to be:
poimhvn, ,;
diavkono", ;
oijkonovmo", ;
stratiwvth", ; joined to nouns denoting an effect estimated by the power it involves, or by its constancy, or by the end aimed at by its author, equivalent to praiseworthy, noble:
strateiva, ;
ajgwvn, ; ;
oJmologiva, f;
e[rgon, ; ; ; ; plural .
kalovn
ejstin, it is expedient, profitable, wholesome: followed by an infinitive as subject, ; with
tivni added (so in 1 Corinthians, the passage cited also), f (cf. Winer's Grammar, 241 (22