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 of
quam in Latin after
plus and
amplius, 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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