περισσῶς
perissōs · G4057 · Greek · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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very great, excessive, extremely, emphatic, surpassing, all the more, much greater
A degree which is considerably in excess of some point on an implied or explicit scale of extent
ExamplesMatthew 27:23 But he said, “Why, what evil has He done?” Yet they kept shouting all the more, saying, “Crucify Him!”
Mark 10:26 And they were even more astonished, and said to Him, “Then who can be saved?”
Mark 15:14 But Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify Him!”
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Very great, excessive, extremely, emphatic, surpassing, all the more, much greater78.31
- περισσῶς functions adverbially to mark an action or reaction as carried to an extreme degree. Matthew's account of Jesus's trial before Pilate records the crowd's insistence: “they kept shouting all the more, saying, ‘Crucify Him!’” (Matthew 27:23).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (περισσός, which see), adverb, beyond measure, extraordinarily (Euripides; equivalent to…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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