Word Summary
pēlikos: how large? how great?
Original Word: πηλίκοςTransliteration: pēlikos
Phonetic Spelling: (pay-lee'-kos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: how large? how great?
Meaning: how large? how great?
Strong's Concordance
how great
A quantitative form (the feminine) of the base of pou; how much (as an indefinite), i.e. In size or (figuratively) dignity -- how great (large).
see GREEK pou
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4080: πηλίκοςπηλίκος,
πηλικη,
πηλίκον (from
ἧλιξ (?)), interrogative,
how great, how large: in a material reference (denoting geometrical magnitude as disting. from arithmetical,
πόσος) (
Plato, Men., p. 82 d.; p. 83 e.;
Ptolemy, 1, 3, 3;
Zechariah 2:2,(6)),
Galatians 6:11, where cf.
Winer, Rückert, Hilgenfeld (Hackett in
B. D. American edition under the word
; but see Lightfoot or Meyer). in an ethical reference, equivalent to how distinguished, Hebrews 7:4.