Word Summary
pleistos: most, very great, much
Original Word: πλεῖστοςTransliteration: pleistos
Phonetic Spelling: (plice'-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: most, very great, much
Meaning: most, very great, much
Strong's Concordance
most, very great, much.
Irregular superlative of polus; the largest number or very large -- very great, most.
see GREEK polus
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4118: πλεῖστοςπλεῖστος,
πλείστῃ,
πλεῖστον (superlative of
πολύς),
most: plural
Matthew 11:20; (
ὄχλος πλεῖστος, a very great multitude,
Mark 4:1 T Tr WH);
ὁ πλεῖστος ὄχλος, the most part of the multitude,
Matthew 21:8 (
Thucydides 7, 78;
Plato, rep. 3, p. 397{d};
λαός,
Homer, Iliad 16, 377);
τό πλεῖστον, adverbially,
at the most, 1 Corinthians 14:27.