πλείων, πλεῖον

πλείων — pleíōn

πλείων, πλείονος, ὁ, ἡ, neuter πλεῖον (eighteen times) and (in Luk 3:13; (Joh 21:15 L T Tr WH); Act 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 Mat 26:53; L T in Luk 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, Mat 21:36; πλεῖον (or πλείω) πάντων, more than all, Mar 12:43; Luk 21:3; πλείονα... τούτων, more than these, Joh 7:31 (here L T Tr WH omit the genitive (see below)); πλείονα τῶν πρώτων, more than the first, Rev 2:19; πλεῖον τούτων, more than these, Joh 21:15; (πλείονα τιμήν ἔχειν τοῦ οἴκου, Heb 3:3 b (cf. Winer's Grammar, 190 (178), 240 (225))); περισσεύειν πλεῖον, more than, followed by a genitive (A. V. exceed), Mat 5:20. πλείονες (πλείους) ἤ, Mat 26:53 R G (L πλείω (br. ἤ)); Joh 4:1 (Tr marginal reading omits; WH brackets ἤ). πλεῖον ἤ, more than, Luk 9:13; πλέον πλήν with a genitive Act 15:28; πλέον παρά (τί or τινα (see παρά, III. 2 b.)), Luk 3:13; (Heb 3:3 a); ἤ is omitted before numerals without change of construction: ἐτῶν ἦν πλειόνων τεσσαράκοντα ὁ ἄνθρωπος, Act 4:22; οὐ πλείους εἰσιν μοι ἡμέραι δεκαδύο, Act 24:11 (here Rec. inserts ἤ); ἡμέρας οὐ πλείους ὀκτώ ἤ δέκα (Rec. πλείους ἤ δέκα), Act 25:6; add, Act 23:13; Act 23:21; as in Greek writings after a neuter: πλείω (Lachmann ἤ in brackets) δώδεκα λεγεῶνας, Mat 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 ofquam in Latin afterplus andamplius, 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: Joh 4:41; (Joh 7:31 (see above));; Heb 7:23; τό πλεῖον, the more (viz., the greater debt mentioned), Luk 7:43; πλεῖον, adverbially, more, i. e. more earnestly, Luk 7:42; ἐπί πλεῖον, more widely, further, διανέμεσθαι, Act 4:17; (cf. Act 20:9 WH marginal reading (see below)); προκόπτειν, 2Ti 3:9; ἐπί πλεῖον ἀσεβείας, 2Ti 2:16; ἐπί πλεῖον, longer (than proper), Act 20:9 (not WH marginal reading (see above)); Act 24:4; plural πλείονα, more, i. e. a larger reward, Mat 20:10 (but L Tr WH πλεῖον); without comparison, used of an indefinite number, with a substantive: Act 2:40; Act 13:31; Act 18:20; Act 21:10; Act 24:17; Act 25:14; Act 27:20; Act 28:23; neuter περί πλειόνων (A. V. of many things), Luk 11:53; with the article οἱ πλείονες (πλείους), the more part, very many: Act 19:32; Act 27:12; 1Co 9:19; 1Co 10:5; 1Co 15:6; 2Co 2:6; 2Co 4:15; 2Co 9:2; Php 1:14.

2. greater in quality, superior, more excellent: followed by the genitive of comparison, Mat 6:25; Mat 12:41-42; Mar 12:33 (here T WH Tr text περισσότερον); Luk 11:31-32; Luk 12:23; (πλείονα θυσίαν... παρά Κάϊν, Heb 11:4 (see παρά, as above). From Homer down.)

STRONGS NT 4119: πλέονπλέον, see πλείων.