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, Mk 5:24; Mk 6:34; ( L T Tr WH); Lk 7:11; Lk 8:4; Jn 6:2, Jn 6:5; Rev 7:9; Rev 19:6, etc.; πλῆθος, Mk 3:7; Lk 5:6; Acts 14:1, etc.; equivalent to abundant, plenteous (A. V. often much), καρπός, Jn 12:24; Jn 15:5, Jn 15:8; θερισμός (the harvest to be gathered), Mt 9:37; Lk 10:2; γῆ, Mt 13:5; Mk 4:5; χόρτος, Jn 6:10; οἶνος, 1 Tim 3:8; plural πολλοί τελῶναι, Mt 9:10; Mk 2:15; πολλοί προφῆται, Mt 13:17; Lk 10:24; σοφοί, 1 Cor 1:26; πατέρες, 1 Cor 4:15; δυνάμεις, Mt 7:22; Mt 13:58, etc.; ὄχλοι, Mt 4:25; Mt 8:1; Mt 12:15 (but here L T WH omit; Tr brackets ὄχλοι); Lk 5:15, etc.; δαιμόνια, Mk 1:34; and in many other examples; with participles used substantively, Mt 8:16; 1 Cor 16:9, etc.; with the article prefixed: αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αὐτῆς αἱ πολλαί, her sins which are many, Lk 7:47; τά πολλά γράμματα, the great learning with which I see that you are furnished, Acts 26:24; ὁ πολύς ὄχλος, the great multitude of common people present, Mk 12:37 (cf. ὁ ὄχλος πολύς, Jn 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, Mt 7:13, Mt 7:22; Mt 20:28; Mt 26:28; Mk 2:2; Mk 3:10; Mk 10:45; Mk 14:24; Lk 1:1, Lk 1:14; Heb 9:28, and very often; opposed to ὀλίγοι, Mt 20:16 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the clause); ἕτεροι πολλοί, Acts 15:35; ἄλλαι πολλαί, Mk 15:41; ἕτεραι πολλαί, Lk 8:3; πολλοί followed by a partitive genitive, as τῶν Φαρισαίων, Mt 3:7; add, Lk 1:16; Jn 12:11; Acts 4:4; Acts 13:43; 2 Cor 12:21; Rev 8:11, etc.; followed by ἐκ with a genitive of class, as πολλοί ἐκ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ, Jn 6:60; add, Jn 7:31, Jn 7:40, Jn 10:20, Jn 11:19, Jn 7:45; Acts 17:12; πολλοί ἐκ τῆς πόλεως, Jn 4:39. with the article prefixed, οἱ πολλοί, the many (cf. Winer's Grammar, 110 (105)): those contrasted with ὁ εἷς (i. e. both with Adam and with Christ), according to the context equivalent to the rest of mankind, Rom 5:15, Rom 5:19, cf. Rom 5:12, Rom 5:18; we the (i. e. who are) many, Rom 12:5; 1 Cor 10:17; the many whom ye know, 2 Cor 2:17; the many i. e. the most part, the majority, Mt 24:12; 1 Cor 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, Eph 2:4; ὀδύνη, 1 Tim 6:10; θρῆνος, κλαυθμός, ὀδυρμός, Mt 2:18; χαρά (Rec.st χάρις), Phm 1:7; ἐπιθυμία, 1 Thess 2:17; μακροθυμία, Rom 9:22; ἔλεος, 1 Pet 1:3; γογγυσμός, Jn 7:12; τρόμος, 1 Cor 2:3; πόνος (Rec. ζῆλος), Col 4:13; ἀγών, 1 Thess 2:2; ἄθλησις, Heb 10:32; θλῖψις, 2 Cor 2:4; 1 Thess 1:6; καύχησις, 2 Cor 7:4; πεποίθησις, 2 Cor 8:22; πληροφορία, 1 Thess 1:5; παρρησία, 2 Cor 3:12; 2 Cor 7:4; 1 Tim 3:13; Phm 1:8; παράκλησις, 2 Cor 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, Lk 10:40; σιγή, deep silence, Acts 21:40 (Xenophon, Cyril 7, 1, 25); φαντασία, Acts 25:23; δύναμις καί δόξα, Mt 24:30; Lk 21:27; μισθός, Mt 5:12; Lk 6:23, Lk 6:35; εἰρήνη, Acts 24:2 (3); περί οὗ πολύς ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος, about which (but see λόγος, I. 3 a.) we have much (in readiness) to say, Heb 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, Jn 5:6; μετά χρόνον πολύν, Mt 25:19; ὥρα πολλή, much time (i. e. a large part of the day) is spent (see ὥρα, 2), Mk 6:35; ὥρας πολλῆς γενομένης (Tdf. γινομένης), of a late hour of the day, ibid. (so πολλῆς ὥρας, Polybius 5, 8, 3; ἐπί πολλήν ὥραν, Josephus, Antiquities 8, 4, 4; Ἐμάχοντο... ἄχρι πολλῆς ὥρας, Dionysius Halicarnassus, 2, 54); πολλοῖς χρόνοις, for a long time, Lk 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, Lk 12:19; (ἐκ or) ἀπό πολλῶν ἐτῶν, Acts 24:10; Rom 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: Lk 12:48; much, adverbially, of the mode and degree of an action: ἠγάπησε, Lk 7:47; πλανᾶσθε, Mk 12:27; namely, ὠφελεῖ, Rom 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, Mt 26:9. ἐν πολλῷ, in (administering) much (i. e. many things), Lk 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 Cor 8:22 (in Greek writings from Homer down); πολλῷ πλείους, many more, Jn 4:41; πολλῷ (or πολύ) μᾶλλον, see μᾶλλον, 1 a. following with the article, τό πολύ, German das Viele (opposed to τό ὀλίγον), 2 Cor 8:15 (cf. Buttmann, 395 (338); Winer's Grammar, 589 (548)). Plural, πολλά α. many things; as, διδάσκειν, λαλεῖν, Mt 13:3; Mk 4:2; Mk 6:34; Jn 8:26; Jn 14:30; παθεῖν, Mt 16:21; Mk 5:26; Mk 9:12; Lk 9:22, etc., and often in Greek writings from Pindar Ol. 13, 90 down; ποιεῖν, Mk 6:20 (T Tr marginal reading WH ἀπόρειν); πρᾶξαι, Acts 26:9; add as other examples, Mt 25:21, Mt 25:23; Mk 12:41; Mk 15:3; Jn 16:12; 2 Cor 8:22; 2 Jn 1:12; 3 Jn 1:13; πολλά καί ἀλλά, Jn 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 ( T Tr marginal reading (?) WH (see ἀπορέω)); ; Rom 16:6, Rom 16:12 (L brackets the clause); in many ways, Jas 3:2; with many words (R. V. much), with verbs of saying; as, κηρύσσειν, παρακαλεῖν, etc., Mk 1:45; Mk 3:12; Mk 5:10, Mk 5:23, Mk 5:43; 1 Cor 16:12; many times, often, repeatedly: Mt 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), Rom 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).