Lexicon pleistos: most, very great, much. Original Word: πλεῖστος, η, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: pleistos Phonetic Spelling: (plice'-tos) Short Definition: the greatest, the most Definition: the greatest, the most, very great. HELPS word-Studies 4118 pleístos – the superlative ("-est") form of 4183 /polýs ("great in number") – literally, "greatest in quantity" (number). 4118 /pleístos ("very many," "very much") means very numerous (great in number). Example: Mt 11:20: "very many (4118 /pleístos) powerful acts" – "Literally, 'His very many mighty works' – if elative, as it is usually in the papyri (Moulton, Prolegomena, 79; Robertson, Grammar, 670)" (WP, 1, 90). [The Greek superlative is used here meaning "very many mighty works" (R, WP).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originsuperl. of polus, q.v. Thayer's STRONGS NT 4118: πλεῖστοςπλεῖστος, πλείστῃ, πλεῖστον (superlative of πολύς), most: plural Matthew 11:20; ( ὄχλος πλεῖστος, a very great multitude, Mark 4:1 T Tr WH); ὁ πλεῖστος ὄχλος, the most part of the multitude, Matthew 21:8 ( Thucydides 7, 78; Plato, rep. 3, p. 397{d}; λαός, Homer, Iliad 16, 377); τό πλεῖστον, adverbially, at the most, 1 Corinthians 14:27.
Strong's most, very great, much. Irregular superlative of polus; the largest number or very large -- very great, most. see GREEK polus |
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