◄ 4118. pleistos ►
Strong's Lexicon pleistos: Most, greatest, very many Original Word: πλεῖστος Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: pleistos Pronunciation: PLAY-stos Phonetic Spelling: (plice'-tos) Definition: Most, greatest, very many Meaning: the greatest, the most, very great. HELPS Word-studies 4118 pleístos – the superlative ("-est") form of 4183 /polýs ("great in number") – literally, "greatest in quantity" (number). 4118 /pleístos ("very many," "very much") means very numerous (great in number). Example: Mt 11:20: "very many (4118 /pleístos) powerful acts" – "Literally, 'His very many mighty works' – if elative, as it is usually in the papyri (Moulton, Prolegomena, 79; Robertson, Grammar, 670)" (WP, 1, 90). [The Greek superlative is used here meaning "very many mighty works" (R, WP).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin superl. of polus, q.v. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4118: πλεῖστος πλεῖστος, πλείστῃ, πλεῖστον (superlative of πολύς), most: plural Matthew 11:20; (ὄχλος πλεῖστος, a very great multitude, Mark 4:1 T Tr WH); ὁ πλεῖστος ὄχλος, the most part of the multitude, Matthew 21:8 (Thucydides 7, 78; Plato, rep. 3, p. 397{d}; λαός, Homer, Iliad 16, 377); τό πλεῖστον, adverbially, at the most, 1 Corinthians 14:27. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance most, very great, much. Irregular superlative of polus; the largest number or very large -- very great, most. see GREEK polus Forms and Transliterations πλεισται πλεῖσται πλειστον πλεῖστον πλειστος πλεῖστος pleistai pleîstai pleiston pleîston pleistos pleîstos Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Matthew 11:20 Adj-NFP GRK: ἐγένοντο αἱ πλεῖσται δυνάμεις αὐτοῦ KJV: wherein most of his INT: had taken place the most miracles of him Matthew 21:8 Adj-NMS GRK: ὁ δὲ πλεῖστος ὄχλος ἔστρωσαν KJV: And a very great multitude spread INT: moreover most of [the] crowd spread Mark 4:1 Adj-NMS GRK: αὐτὸν ὄχλος πλεῖστος ὥστε αὐτὸν INT: him a crowd great so that him 1 Corinthians 14:27 Adj-ANS GRK: ἢ τὸ πλεῖστον τρεῖς καὶ KJV: two, or at the most [by] three, and INT: or the most three and Strong's Greek 4118 4 Occurrences πλεῖσται — 1 Occ. πλεῖστον — 1 Occ. πλεῖστος — 2 Occ.