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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g3185 Greek: meizon

Greater:

is the comparative degree of megas (see GREAT, No. 1), e.g., Mat 11:11; in Mat 13:32, the RV rightly has "greater than" (AV, "the greatest among"); Mat 23:17; in Luk 22:26, RV, "the greater (among you)" (AV, "greatest"); in Jam 3:1, RV, "the heavier (marg., greater) judgment" (AV, "the greater condemnation"); it is used in the neuter plural in Jhn 1:50, "greater things;" in Jhn 14:12, "greater works" (lit., "greater things"); in 1Cr 12:31, RV, "the greater," AV, "the best."
See GREATEST, No. 2.

Note: In Mat 20:31, the neuter of meizon, used as an adverb, is translated "the more."
See MORE.

2 Strong's Number: g3186 Greek: meizoteros

Greater:

a double comparative of megas (cp. No. 1, above), is used in 3Jo 1:4, of joy.

3 Strong's Number: g4119 Greek: pleion

Greater:

the comparative of polus (see GREAT, No. 2), is used

(a) as an adjective, "greater, more," e.g., Act 15:28;

(b) as a noun, e.g., Mat 12:41, "a greater (than Jonah);" Mat 12:42, "a greater (than Solomon);" in these instances the neuter pleion, "something greater," is "a fixed or stereotyped form" of the word; in 1Cr 15:6, "the greater part" (masculine plural);

(c) as an adverb, e.g., Mat 5:20, lit., "(except your righteousness abound) more greatly (than of scribes and Pharisees);" so Mat 26:53, "more;" Luk 9:13.
See ABOVE, LONGER, MANY, MORE, MOST, YET.

4 Strong's Number: g4055 Greek: perissoteros

Greater:

the comparative of perissos, "over and above, abundant," signifies "more abundant, greater," e.g., of condemnation, Mar 12:40; Luk 20:47.
See ABUNDANT, C, No. 2.

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