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Lexicon :: Strong's G4183 - polys

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πολύς
Transliteration
polys (Key)
Pronunciation
pol-oos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Including the forms from the alternate pollos
mGNT
415x in 42 unique form(s)
TR
365x in 30 unique form(s)
LXX
547x in 42 unique form(s)
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TDNT Reference: 6:536,*

Strong’s Definitions

πολύς polýs, pol-oos'; including the forms from the alternate πολλός pollós; (singular) much (in any respect) or (plural) many; neuter (singular) as adverbial, largely; neuter (plural) as adverb or noun often, mostly, largely:—abundant, + altogether, common, + far (passed, spent), (+ be of a) great (age, deal, -ly, while), long, many, much, oft(-en (-times)), plenteous, sore, straitly. Compare G4118, G4119.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 365x

The KJV translates Strong's G4183 in the following manner: many (210x), much (73x), great (59x), miscellaneous (23x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 365x
The KJV translates Strong's G4183 in the following manner: many (210x), much (73x), great (59x), miscellaneous (23x).
  1. many, much, large

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πολύς polýs, pol-oos'; including the forms from the alternate πολλός pollós; (singular) much (in any respect) or (plural) many; neuter (singular) as adverbial, largely; neuter (plural) as adverb or noun often, mostly, largely:—abundant, + altogether, common, + far (passed, spent), (+ be of a) great (age, deal, -ly, while), long, many, much, oft(-en (-times)), plenteous, sore, straitly. Compare G4118, G4119.
STRONGS G4183:
πολύς, πολλή (from an older form πολλός, found in Homer, Hesiod, Pindar), πολύ; ((cf. Curtius, § 375)); the Sept. chiefly for רַב; much; used
a. of multitude, number, etc., many, numerous, great: ἀριθμός, Acts 11:21; λαός, Acts 18:10; ὄχλος, Mark 5:24; Mark 6:34; (Mark 8:1 L T Tr WH); Luke 7:11; Luke 8:4; John 6:2, 5; Revelation 7:9; Revelation 19:6, etc.; πλῆθος, Mark 3:7; Luke 5:6; Acts 14:1, etc.; equivalent to abundant, plenteous (A. V. often much), καρπός, John 12:24; John 15:5, 8; θερισμός (the harvest to be gathered), Matthew 9:37; Luke 10:2; γῆ, Matthew 13:5; Mark 4:5; χόρτος, John 6:10; οἶνος, 1 Timothy 3:8; plural πολλοί τελῶναι, Matthew 9:10; Mark 2:15; πολλοί προφῆται, Matthew 13:17; Luke 10:24; σοφοί, 1 Corinthians 1:26; πατέρες, 1 Corinthians 4:15; δυνάμεις, Matthew 7:22; Matthew 13:58, etc.; ὄχλοι, Matthew 4:25; Matthew 8:1; Matthew 12:15 (but here L T WH omit; Tr brackets ὄχλοι); Luke 5:15, etc.; δαιμόνια, Mark 1:34; and in many other examples; with participles used substantively, Matthew 8:16; 1 Corinthians 16:9, etc.; with the article prefixed: αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αὐτῆς αἱ πολλαί, her sins which are many, Luke 7:47; τά πολλά γράμματα, the great learning with which I see that you are furnished, Acts 26:24; πολύς ὄχλος, the great multitude of common people present, Mark 12:37 (cf. ὄχλος πολύς, John 12:9 T Tr marginal reading WH; see ὄχλος, 1). Plural masculine πολλοί, absolutely and without the article, many, a large part of mankind: πολλοί simply, Matthew 7:13, 22; Matthew 20:28; Matthew 26:28; Mark 2:2; Mark 3:10; Mark 10:45; Mark 14:24; Luke 1:1, 14; Hebrews 9:28, and very often; opposed to ὀλίγοι, Matthew 20:16 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the clause); ἕτεροι πολλοί, Acts 15:35; ἄλλαι πολλαί, Mark 15:41; ἕτεραι πολλαί, Luke 8:3; πολλοί followed by a partitive genitive, as τῶν Φαρισαίων, Matthew 3:7; add, Luke 1:16; John 12:11; Acts 4:4; Acts 13:43; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Revelation 8:11, etc.; followed by ἐκ with a genitive of class, as πολλοί ἐκ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ, John 6:60; add, John 7:31,40; 10:20; 11:19,45; Acts 17:12; πολλοί ἐκ τῆς πόλεως, John 4:39. with the article prefixed, οἱ πολλοί, the many (cf. Winer's Grammar, 110 (105)): those contrasted with εἷς (i. e. both with Adam and with Christ), according to the context equivalent to the rest of mankind, Romans 5:15, 19, cf. Romans 5:12, 18; we the (i. e. who are) many, Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 10:17; the many whom ye know, 2 Corinthians 2:17; the many i. e. the most part, the majority, Matthew 24:12; 1 Corinthians 10:33.
b. with nouns denoting an action, an emotion, a state, which can be said to have as it were measure, weight, force, intensity, size, continuance, or repetition, much equivalent to great, strong, intense, large: ἀγάπη, Ephesians 2:4; ὀδύνη, 1 Timothy 6:10; θρῆνος, κλαυθμός, ὀδυρμός, Matthew 2:18; χαρά (Rec.st χάρις), Philemon 1:7; ἐπιθυμία, 1 Thessalonians 2:17; μακροθυμία, Romans 9:22; ἔλεος, 1 Peter 1:3; γογγυσμός, John 7:12; τρόμος, 1 Corinthians 2:3; πόνος (Rec. ζῆλος), Colossians 4:13; ἀγών, 1 Thessalonians 2:2; ἄθλησις, Hebrews 10:32; θλῖψις, 2 Corinthians 2:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; καύχησις, 2 Corinthians 7:4; πεποίθησις, 2 Corinthians 8:22; πληροφορία, 1 Thessalonians 1:5; παρρησία, 2 Corinthians 3:12; 2 Corinthians 7:4; 1 Timothy 3:13; Philemon 1:8; παράκλησις, 2 Corinthians 8:4; συζήτησις (T WH Tr text ζήτησις), Acts 15:7; Acts 28:29 (Rec.); στάσις, Acts 23:10; ἀσιτία, Acts 27:21; βία, Acts 24:7 (Rec.); διακονία, Luke 10:40; σιγή, deep silence, Acts 21:40 (Xenophon, Cyril 7, 1, 25); φαντασία, Acts 25:23; δύναμις καί δόξα, Matthew 24:30; Luke 21:27; μισθός, Matthew 5:12; Luke 6:23, 35; εἰρήνη, Acts 24:2 (3); περί οὗ πολύς ἡμῖν λόγος, about which (but see λόγος, I. 3 a.) we have much (in readiness) to say, Hebrews 5:11 (πολύν λόγον ποιεῖσθαι περί τίνος, Plato, Phaedo, p. 115{d}; cf. Lex. Plato, iii., p. 148).
c. of time, much, long: πολύν χρόνον, John 5:6; μετά χρόνον πολύν, Matthew 25:19; ὥρα πολλή, much time (i. e. a large part of the day) is spent (see ὥρα, 2), Mark 6:35; ὥρας πολλῆς γενομένης (Tdf. γινομένης), of a late hour of the day, ibid. (so πολλῆς ὥρας, Polybius 5, 8, 3; --but see p. 679bline 2. ἐπί πολλήν ὥραν, Josephus, Antiquities 8, 4, 4; Ἐμάχοντο... ἄχρι πολλῆς ὥρας, Dionysius Halicarnassus, 2, 54); πολλοῖς χρόνοις, for a long time, Luke 8:29 (οὐ πολλῷ χρόνῳ, Herodian, 1, 6, 24 (8 edition, Bekker); χρόνοις πολλοῖς ὕστερον, Plutarch, Thes. 6; (see χρόνος, under the end)); εἰς ἔτη πολλά, Luke 12:19; (ἐκ or) ἀπό πολλῶν ἐτῶν, Acts 24:10; Romans 15:23 (here WH Tr text ἀπό ἱκανῶν ἐτῶν); ἐπί πολύ, (for) a long time, Acts 28:6; μετ' οὐ πολύ, not long after (see μετά, II. 2 b.), Acts 27:14.
d. Neuter singular πολύ, much, substantively, equivalent to many things: Luke 12:48; much, adverbially, of the mode and degree of an action: ἠγάπησε, Luke 7:47; πλανᾶσθε, Mark 12:27; namely, ὠφελεῖ, Romans 3:2. πολλοῦ as a genitive of price (from Homer down; cf. Passow, under the word, IV. b. vol. ii., p. 1013a; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 206 (194))): πραθῆναι, for much, Matthew 26:9. ἐν πολλῷ, in (administering) much (i. e. many things), Luke 16:10; with great labor, great effort, Acts 26:29 (where L T Tr WH ἐν μεγάλῳ (see μέγας, 1 a. γ.)). with a comparitive (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 35, 1): πολύ σπουδαιότερον, 2 Corinthians 8:22 (in Greek writings from Homer down); πολλῷ πλείους, many more, John 4:41; πολλῷ (or πολύ) μᾶλλον, see μᾶλλον, 1 a. following with the article, τό πολύ, German das Viele (opposed to τό ὀλίγον), 2 Corinthians 8:15 (cf. Buttmann, 395 (338); Winer's Grammar, 589 (548)). Plural, πολλά
α. many things; as, διδάσκειν, λαλεῖν, Matthew 13:3; Mark 4:2; Mark 6:34; John 8:26; John 14:30; παθεῖν, Matthew 16:21; Mark 5:26; Mark 9:12; Luke 9:22, etc., and often in Greek writings from Pindar Ol. 13, 90 down; ποιεῖν, Mark 6:20 (T Tr marginal reading WH ἀπόρειν); πρᾶξαι, Acts 26:9; add as other examples, Matthew 25:21, 23; Mark 12:41; Mark 15:3; John 16:12; 2 Corinthians 8:22; 2 John 1:12; 3 John 1:13; πολλά καί ἀλλά, John 20:30. (On the Greek (and Latin) usage which treats the notion of multitude not as something external to a thing and consisting merely in a comparison of it with other things, but as an attribute inhering in the thing itself, and hence, capable of being co-ordinated with another attributive word by means of καί (which see, I. 3), see Kühner, § 523, 1 (or on Xenophon, mem. 1, 2, 24); Bäumlein, Partikeln, p. 146; Krüger, § 69, 32, 3; Lob. Paral., p. 60; Herm. ad Vig., p. 835; Winers Grammar, § 59, 3 at the end; Buttmann, 362f (311). Cf. Passow, under the word, I. 3 a.; Liddell and Scott, under II. 2.)
β. adverbially (cf. Winers Grammar, 463 (432); Buttmann, § 128, 2), much: Mark (Mark 6:20 T Tr marginal reading (?) WH (see ἀπορέω)); Mark 9:26; Romans 16:6, 12 (L brackets the clause); in many ways, James 3:2; with many words (R. V. much), with verbs of saying; as, κηρύσσειν, παρακαλεῖν, etc., Mark 1:45; Mark 3:12; Mark 5:10, 23, 43; 1 Corinthians 16:12; many times, often, repeatedly: Matthew 9:14 (R G Tr WH marginal reading) (and often in Greek writings from Homer down; cf. Passow, under the word, V. 1 a. vol. ii., p. 1013{b}; (Liddell and Scott, III. a.); Stallbaum on Plato, Phaedo, p. 61 c.); with the article πολλά, for the most part (R. V. these many times) (Vulg. plurimum), Romans 15:22 (L Tr marginal reading πολλάκις) (examples from Greek writings are given by Passow, the passage cited (Liddell and Scott, the passage cited), and by Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans, iii., p. 281).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
2:18; 3:7; 4:25; 5:12; 7:13; 7:22; 7:22; 8:1; 8:16; 9:10; 9:14; 9:37; 12:15; 13:3; 13:5; 13:17; 13:58; 16:21; 20:16; 20:28; 24:12; 24:30; 25:19; 25:21; 25:23; 26:9; 26:28
Mark
1:34; 1:45; 2:2; 2:15; 3:7; 3:10; 3:12; 4:2; 4:5; 5:10; 5:23; 5:24; 5:26; 5:43; 6:20; 6:20; 6:34; 6:34; 6:35; 8:1; 9:12; 9:26; 10:45; 12:27; 12:37; 12:41; 14:24; 15:3; 15:41
Luke
1:1; 1:14; 1:16; 5:6; 5:15; 6:23; 6:35; 7:11; 7:47; 7:47; 8:3; 8:4; 8:29; 9:22; 10:2; 10:24; 10:40; 12:19; 12:48; 16:10; 21:27
John
4:39; 4:41; 5:6; 6:2; 6:5; 6:10; 6:60; 7:12; 7:31; 7:40; 8:26; 10:20; 11:19; 11:45; 12:9; 12:11; 12:24; 14:30; 15:5; 15:8; 16:12; 20:30
Acts
4:4; 11:21; 13:43; 14:1; 15:7; 15:35; 17:12; 18:10; 21:40; 23:10; 24:2; 24:7; 24:10; 25:23; 26:9; 26:24; 26:29; 27:14; 27:21; 28:6; 28:29
Romans
3:2; 5:12; 5:15; 5:18; 5:19; 9:22; 12:5; 15:22; 15:23; 16:6; 16:12
1 Corinthians
1:26; 2:3; 4:15; 10:17; 10:33; 16:9; 16:12
2 Corinthians
2:4; 2:17; 3:12; 7:4; 7:4; 8:4; 8:15; 8:22; 8:22; 8:22; 12:21
Ephesians
2:4
Colossians
4:13
1 Thessalonians
1:5; 1:6; 2:2; 2:17
1 Timothy
3:8; 3:13; 6:10
Philemon
1:7; 1:8
Hebrews
5:11; 9:28; 10:32
James
3:2
1 Peter
1:3
2 John
1:12
3 John
1:13
Revelation
7:9; 8:11; 19:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4183 matches the Greek πολύς (polys),
which occurs 38 times in 38 verses in 'Jhn' in the TR Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:12 -

After this, he went down to Capernaum, together with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 2:23 -

While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 3:23 -

John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:39 -

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of what the woman said[fn] when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:41 -

Many more believed because of what he said.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:3 -

Within these lay a large number of the disabled ​— ​blind, lame, and paralyzed.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:6 -

When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:2 -

A huge crowd was following him because they saw the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:5 -

So when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so that these people can eat? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:10 -

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place; so they sat down. The men numbered about five thousand.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:60 -

Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept[fn] it? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:66 -

From that moment[fn] many of his disciples turned back and no longer accompanied him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:12 -

And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, he’s deceiving the people.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:31 -

However, many from the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will he? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 7:40 -

When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This truly is the Prophet.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:26 -

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him ​— ​these things I tell the world.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:30 -

As he was saying these things, many believed in him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:20 -

Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and he’s crazy. Why do you listen to him? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:32 -

Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:41 -

Many came to him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:42 -

And many believed in him there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:19 -

Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:45 -

Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did believed in him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:47 -

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and were saying, “What are we going to do since this man is doing many signs?

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:55 -

Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:9 -

Then a large crowd of the Jews learned he was there. They came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, the one he had raised from the dead.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:11 -

because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them[fn] and believing in Jesus.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:12 -

The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:24 -

“Truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces much fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 12:42 -

Nevertheless, many did believe in him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, so that they would not be banned from the synagogue.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:2 -

“In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 14:30 -

“I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:5 -

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 15:8 -

“My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be[fn] my disciples.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:12 -

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:20 -

Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:30 -

Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book.

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 21:25 -

And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if every one of them were written down, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books[fn] that would be written.

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