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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
549x 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 415 times in 377 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 1 / 8 (Mat 2:18–Mat 26:47)

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 2:18 - “A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH,
WEEPING AND GREAT G4183 MOURNING,
RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN;
AND SHE REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED,
BECAUSE THEY WERE NO MORE.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:7 - But when he saw many G4183 of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:25 - Large G4183 crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:12 - “Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; G4183 for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 5:20 - “For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:25 - “For this reason I say to you, [fn]do not be worried about your [fn]life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more G4183 than food, and the body more G4183 than clothing?
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:30 - “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much G4183 more clothe you? You of little faith!
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:13 - “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many G4183 who enter through it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:22 - “Many G4183 will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many G4183 [fn]miracles?’
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:1 - When [fn]Jesus came down from the mountain, [fn]large G4183 crowds followed Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:11 - “I say to you that many G4183 will come from east and west, and [fn]recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:16 - When evening came, they brought to Him many G4183 who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 8:30 - Now there was a herd of many G4183 swine feeding at a distance from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:10 - Then it happened that as [fn]Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many G4183 tax collectors and [fn]sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:14 - Then the disciples of John *came to Him, asking, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:37 - Then He *said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, G4183 but the workers are few.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:31 - “So do not fear; you are more valuable than many G4183 sparrows.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:20 - Then He began to denounce the cities in which most G4183 of His [fn]miracles were done, because they did not repent.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:15 - But Jesus, [fn]aware of this, withdrew from there. Many G4183 followed Him, and He healed them all,
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:41 - “The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater G4183 than Jonah is here.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 12:42 - The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater G4183 than Solomon is here.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:2 - And [fn]large G4183 crowds gathered to Him, so He got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd was standing on the beach.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:3 - And He spoke many G4183 things G4183 to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:5 - “Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much G4183 soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:17 - “For truly I say to you that many G4183 prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 13:58 - And He did not do many G4183 [fn]miracles there because of their unbelief.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:14 - When He went [fn]ashore, He saw a large G4183 crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 14:24 - But the boat was already [fn]a long G4183 distance from the land, [fn]battered by the waves; for the wind was [fn]contrary.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:30 - And [fn]large G4183 crowds came to Him, bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, mute, and many G4183 others, and they laid them down at His feet; and He healed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:21 - From that time [fn]Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many G4183 things G4183 from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:2 - and [fn]large G4183 crowds followed Him, and He healed them there.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:22 - But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much G4183 property.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 19:30 - “But many G4183 who are first will be last; and the last, first.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:10 - “When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; G4183 [fn]but each of them also received a denarius.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:28 - just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His [fn]life a ransom for many.” G4183
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 20:29 - As they were leaving Jericho, a large G4183 crowd followed Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:8 - Most G4183 of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:36 - “Again he sent another group of slaves larger G4183 than the first; and they did the same thing to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 22:14 - “For many G4183 are [fn]called, but few are chosen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:5 - “For many G4183 will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the [fn]Christ,’ and will mislead many. G4183
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:10 - “At that time many G4183 will [fn]fall away and will [fn]betray one another and hate one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:11 - “Many G4183 false prophets will arise and will mislead many. G4183
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:12 - “Because lawlessness is increased, [fn]most G4183 people’s G4183 love will grow cold.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:30 - “And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great G4183 glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:19 - “Now after a long G4183 time the master of those slaves *came and *settled accounts with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:21 - “His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many G4183 things; G4183 enter into the joy of your [fn]master.’
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:23 - “His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many G4183 things; G4183 enter into the joy of your master.’
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:9 - “For this perfume might have been sold for a high G4183 price G4183 and the money given to the poor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:28 - for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many G4183 for forgiveness of sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:47 - While He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came up [fn]accompanied by a large G4183 crowd with swords and clubs, who came from the chief priests and elders of the people.

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