to honor
timao is used for showing regard to parents, other people, God, and the Son, and once for setting a price on someone.
The attested use most often concerns showing regard to people, especially parents, but also widows, a king, and visitors. It also describes the regard directed toward God, the Father, and the Son, including lip-service set against a distant heart; one occurrence instead stands in a clause about a person being priced.
Senses in use
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Showing regard to people · dominant
Present active singular forms state the instruction concerning father and mother in Ephesians 6:2, Luke 18:20, Mark 7:10, Matthew 15:4, and Matthew 19:19; in each, the APB renders the command "Honor your father and your mother." The same action is extended to widows in 1 Timothy 5:3, while Acts 28:10 uses an aorist active plural form where the APB says that "They also honored us" and supplied needed things.
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Regard directed toward God, Father, or Son · common
John 5:23 places the Son and the Father together: the APB renders the purpose as "that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father," followed by the contrast of not doing so. In Mark 7:6 and Matthew 15:8, a present form occurs in the clause the APB renders, "This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far," distinguishing spoken regard from the heart's distance.
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Being priced · rare
Matthew 27:9 contains a perfect passive participle and an aorist active form in the wording about "the price of the one who had been priced, whom they priced." Here the clause concerns the valuation placed on a person rather than an instruction to show regard.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly uses "honor," including commands about parents and statements about the Son and Father. In Matthew 27:9 it instead uses "priced" in a valuation clause; These renderings confirm the clauses rather than assign a fixed English equivalent to every form.