pleistos
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4118. pleistos

pleistos: most, very great, much.
Original Word: πλεῖστος, η, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: pleistos
Phonetic Spelling: (plice'-tos)
Short Definition: the greatest, the most
Definition: the greatest, the most, very great.

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).]

Word Origin
superl. of polus, q.v.
most, very great, much.

Irregular superlative of polus; the largest number or very large -- very great, most.

see GREEK polus

πλατεῖα — 1 Occ.
πλατείαις — 2 Occ.
πλατείας — 5 Occ.
πλατειῶν — 1 Occ.
πλάτος — 4 Occ.
πεπλάτυνται — 1 Occ.
πλατύνουσιν — 1 Occ.
πλατύνθητε — 1 Occ.
πλατεῖα — 1 Occ.
πλέγμασιν — 1 Occ.
πλεῖστον — 1 Occ.
πλεῖστος — 2 Occ.
πλείω — 1 Occ.
πλεῖον — 18 Occ.
πλείονα — 6 Occ.
πλείονας — 6 Occ.
πλείονες — 4 Occ.
πλειόνων — 5 Occ.
πλείονος — 1 Occ.
πλείοσιν — 2 Occ.


Strong's Greek 4118
4 Occurrences


πλεῖσται — 1 Occ.
πλεῖστον — 1 Occ.
πλεῖστος — 2 Occ.

Matthew 11:20 Adj-NFP
BIB: ἐγένοντο αἱ πλεῖσται δυνάμεις αὐτοῦ
KJV: wherein most of his
INT: had taken place the most miracles of him

Matthew 21:8 Adj-NMS
BIB: ὁ δὲ πλεῖστος ὄχλος ἔστρωσαν
KJV: And a very great multitude spread
INT: moreover most of [the] crowd spread

Mark 4:1 Adj-NMS
BIB: αὐτὸν ὄχλος πλεῖστος ὥστε αὐτὸν
INT: him a crowd great so that him

1 Corinthians 14:27 Adj-ANS
BIB: ἢ τὸ πλεῖστον τρεῖς καὶ
KJV: two, or at the most [by] three, and
INT: or the most three and

4 Occurrences


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