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Lexicon :: Strong's G4119 - pleiōn

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πλείων
Transliteration
pleiōn (Key)
Pronunciation
pli-own
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Comparative of πολύς (G4183)
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Strong’s Definitions

πλείων pleíōn, pli-own; comparative of G4183; more in quantity, number, or quality; also (in plural) the major portion:—X above, + exceed, more excellent, further, (very) great(-er), long(-er), (very) many, greater (more) part, + yet but.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 56x

The KJV translates Strong's G4119 in the following manner: more (23x), many (12x), greater (5x), further (with G1909) (3x), most (2x), more part (2x), not translated (1x), miscellaneous (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 56x
The KJV translates Strong's G4119 in the following manner: more (23x), many (12x), greater (5x), further (with G1909) (3x), most (2x), more part (2x), not translated (1x), miscellaneous (8x).

  1. greater in quantity

    1. the more part, very many

  2. greater in quality, superior, more excellent

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πλείων pleíōn, pli-own; comparative of G4183; more in quantity, number, or quality; also (in plural) the major portion:—X above, + exceed, more excellent, further, (very) great(-er), long(-er), (very) many, greater (more) part, + yet but.
STRONGS G4119:
πλείων, πλείονος, ὁ, ἡ, neuter πλεῖον (eighteen times) and (in Luke 3:13; (John 21:15 L T Tr WH); Acts 15:28) πλέον (cf. (WHs Appendix, p. 151); Matthiae, i., p. 333; Krüger, § 23, 7, 4; Kühner, § 156, 3; Passow, under the word πολύς, B. 1; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, B.)), plural πλείονες and contracted πλείους, accusative πλείονας and contracted πλείους (which forms are used indiscriminately in the N. T.), neuter πλείονα and (L T Tr WH in Matthew 26:53; L T in Luke 21:3) contracted πλείω; (comparitive of πολύς); more, i. e.
1. greater in quantity: the object with which the comparison is made being added in the genitive, as πλείονας τῶν πρώτων, more in number than the first, Matthew 21:36; πλεῖον (or πλείω) πάντων, more than all, Mark 12:43; Luke 21:3; πλείονα... τούτων, more than these, John 7:31 (here L T Tr WH omit the genitive (see below)); πλείονα τῶν πρώτων, more than the first, Revelation 2:19; πλεῖον τούτων, more than these, John 21:15; (πλείονα τιμήν ἔχειν τοῦ οἴκου, Hebrews 3:3b (cf. Winer's Grammar, 190 (178), 240 (225))); περισσεύειν πλεῖον, more than, followed by a genitive (A. V. exceed), Matthew 5:20. πλείονες (πλείους) ἤ, Matthew 26:53 R G (L πλείω (br. ἤ)); John 4:1 (Tr marginal reading omits; WH brackets ἤ). πλεῖον ἤ, more than, Luke 9:13; πλέον πλήν with a genitive Acts 15:28; πλέον παρά (τί or τινα (see παρά, III. 2 b.)), Luke 3:13; (Hebrews 3:3a); ἤ is omitted before numerals without change of construction: ἐτῶν ἦν πλειόνων τεσσαράκοντα ὁ ἄνθρωπος, Acts 4:22; οὐ πλείους εἰσιν μοι ἡμέραι δεκαδύο, Acts 24:11 (here Rec. inserts ἤ); ἡμέρας οὐ πλείους ὀκτώ ἤ δέκα (Rec. πλείους ἤ δέκα), Acts 25:6; add, Acts 23:13, 21; as in Greek writings after a neuter: πλείω (Lachmann ἤ in brackets) δώδεκα λεγεῶνας, Matthew 26:53 (T Tr WH (but T λεγιωνων)) (πλεῖν — Attic for πλεῖον — ἑξακοσίους, Aristophanes av. 1251; ἔτη γεγονώς πλείω ἑβδομήκοντα, Plato, Apology Socrates, p. 17 d.; see ἤ, 3 a.; on the omission ofquam in Latin afterplus andamplius, cf. Ramshorn, Latin Gram., p. 491; (Roby, Latin Gram. § 1273)). the objects with which the comparison is made are not added because easily supplied from the context: John 4:41; (John 7:31 (see above)); John 15:2; Hebrews 7:23; τό πλεῖον, the more (viz., the greater debt mentioned), Luke 7:43; πλεῖον, adverbially, more, i. e. more earnestly, Luke 7:42; ἐπί πλεῖον, more widely, further, διανέμεσθαι, Acts 4:17; (cf. Acts 20:9 WH marginal reading (see below)); προκόπτειν, 2 Timothy 3:9; ἐπί πλεῖον ἀσεβείας, 2 Timothy 2:16; ἐπί πλεῖον, longer (than proper), Acts 20:9 (not WH marginal reading (see above)); Acts 24:4; plural πλείονα, more, i. e. a larger reward, Matthew 20:10 (but L Tr WH πλεῖον); without comparison, used of an indefinite number, with a substantive: Acts 2:40; Acts 13:31; Acts 18:20; Acts 21:10; Acts 24:17; Acts 25:14; Acts 27:20; Acts 28:23; neuter περί πλειόνων (A. V. of many things), Luke 11:53; with the article οἱ πλείονες (πλείους), the more part, very many: Acts 19:32; Acts 27:12; 1 Corinthians 9:19; 1 Corinthians 10:5; 1 Corinthians 15:6; 2 Corinthians 2:6; 2 Corinthians 4:15; 2 Corinthians 9:2; Philippians 1:14.
2. greater in quality, superior, more excellent: followed by the genitive of comparison, Matthew 6:25; Matthew 12:41, 42; Mark 12:33 (here T WH Tr text περισσότερον); Luke 11:31, 32; Luke 12:23; (πλείονα θυσίαν... παρά Κάϊν, Hebrews 11:4 (see παρά, as above). From Homer down.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
5:20; 6:25; 12:41; 12:42; 20:10; 21:36; 26:53; 26:53; 26:53
Mark
12:33; 12:43
Luke
3:13; 3:13; 7:42; 7:43; 9:13; 11:31; 11:32; 11:53; 12:23; 21:3; 21:3
John
4:1; 4:41; 7:31; 7:31; 15:2; 21:15; 21:15
Acts
2:40; 4:17; 4:22; 13:31; 15:28; 15:28; 18:20; 19:32; 20:9; 20:9; 21:10; 23:13; 23:21; 24:4; 24:11; 24:17; 25:6; 25:14; 27:12; 27:20; 28:23
1 Corinthians
9:19; 10:5; 15:6
2 Corinthians
2:6; 4:15; 9:2
Philippians
1:14
2 Timothy
2:16; 3:9
Hebrews
3:3; 3:3; 7:23; 11:4
Revelation
2:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4119 matches the Greek πλείων (pleiōn),
which occurs 56 times in 55 verses in the TR Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Mat 5:20–2Ti 2:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:20 - For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the Sofrim and Perushim, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:25 - Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:41 - The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Yonah; and behold, someone greater than Yonah is here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:42 - The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the eretz to hear the wisdom of Shlomo; and behold, someone greater than Shlomo is here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:10 - When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:36 - Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:53 - Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:33 - and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:43 - He called his talmidim to himself, and said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:13 - He said to them, "Collect no more than that which is appointed to you."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:42 - When they couldn't pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:43 - Shim`on answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:13 - But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:31 - The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the eretz to hear the wisdom of Shlomo; and behold, one greater than Shlomo is here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:32 - The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Yonah, and behold, one greater than Yonah is here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:53 - As he said these things to them, the Sofrim and the Perushim began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:23 - Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:3 - He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:1 - Therefore when the Lord knew that the Perushim had heard that Yeshua was making and immersing more talmidim than Yochanan

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:41 - Many more believed because of his word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:31 - But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:2 - Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:15 - So when they had eaten their breakfast, Yeshua said to Shim`on Rock, "Shim`on, son of Yonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:40 - With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:17 - But so that this spreads no further among the people, let's threaten them, that from now on they don't speak to anyone in this name."

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:22 - For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:31

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:31 - and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from the Galil to Yerushalayim, who are his witnesses to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:28

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:28 - For it seemed good to the Ruach HaKodesh, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:20 - When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:32

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:32 - Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:9 - A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Sha'ul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:10 - As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agav came down from Yehudah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:13 - There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:21 - Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:4 - But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:11 - seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Yerushalayim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:17 - Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:6 - When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Sha'ul to be brought.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:14 - As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Sha'ul's case before the King, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:12 - Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 27:20 - When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small tempest pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:23 - When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Yeshua, both from the law of Moshe and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 9:19 - For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:5 - However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:6 - Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 2:6 - Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 4:15 - For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 9:2 - for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 1:14 - and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:16 - But shun empty chatter, for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

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