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Greek

5236. huperbole -- a throwing beyond, excess, superiority
... a throwing beyond, excess, superiority. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
huperbole Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-bol-ay') Short Definition ...
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401. anachusis -- a pouring out, overflow
... Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: anachusis Phonetic Spelling:
(an-akh'-oo-sis) Short Definition: outpouring, excess Definition: outpouring ...
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810. asotia -- unsavedness, ie wastefulness
... Word Origin from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and sozo Definition unsavedness, ie
wastefulness NASB Word Usage dissipation (3). excess, debauchery. ...
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193. akrates -- powerless, impotent
... of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akrates Phonetic Spelling: (ak-rat'-ace) Short
Definition: lacking self-control, inclined to excess Definition: lacking ...
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4051. perisseuma -- superfluity
... Cognate: 4051 (a neuter noun derived from 4012 , "all-around/excess") -- abundance,
especially as a situation (ie by its ); what is greater than expected ...
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2261. epios -- gentle, mild
... 2307 ). It describes the believer acting even-handedly, avoiding unnecessary
harshness or excess by into a situation that God reveals. ...
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4053. perissos -- abundant
... Cognate: 4053 (an adjective, derived from 4012 , "all-around, excess") -- properly ,
"more than" ("abundantly"); beyond what is anticipated, exceeding ...
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4052. perisseuo -- to be over and above, to abound
... From perissos; to superabound (in quantity or quality), be in excess, be superfluous;
also (transitively) to cause to superabound or excel -- (make, more ...
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4057. perissos -- abundantly
... Cognate: 4057 (an adjective, derived from 4012 , "all-around, excess") --
"extraordinarily, exceedingly" (J. Thayer); expectation; further than the upper ...
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4012. peri -- about, concerning, around (denotes place, cause or ...
... In comparative, it retains substantially the same meaning of circuit (around),
excess (beyond), or completeness (through). see GREEK peran. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5736. adaph -- to remain over, be in excess
... 5735, 5736. adaph. 5737 . to remain over, be in excess. Transliteration: adaph
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-daf') Short Definition: excess. Word Origin a prim. ...
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3499. yether -- remainder, excess, preeminence
... 3498, 3499. yether. 3499a . remainder, excess, preeminence. Transliteration:
yether Phonetic Spelling: (yeh'-ther) Short Definition: abundant. ...
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3499a. yether -- remainder, excess, preeminence
... 3499, 3499a. yether. 3499b . remainder, excess, preeminence. Transliteration:
yether Short Definition: rest. Word Origin from yathar ...
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3148. yother -- superiority, advantage, excess
... 3147, 3148. yother. 3149 . superiority, advantage, excess. Transliteration:
yother Phonetic Spelling: (yo-thare') Short Definition: advantage. ...
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5629. serach -- excess
... 5628, 5629. serach. 5630 . excess. Transliteration: serach Phonetic Spelling:
(seh'-rakh) Short Definition: part. Word Origin from ...
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7646. saba -- to be sated, satisfied or surfeited
... fed them to the full (1), filled (9), full (2), get enough (1), glutted (1), had
enough (2), have his fill (1), have in plenty (1), have it in excess (1), have ...
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5628. sarach -- to go free, be unrestrained, overrun, exceed
... exceeding, hand, spread, stretch self, banish. A primitive root; to extend (even
to excess) -- exceeding, hand, spread, stretch self, banish. 5627, 5628. ...
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8311. sara -- to extend
... A primitive root; to prolong, ie (reflex) be deformed by excess of members -- stretch
out self, (have any) superfluous thing. 8310, 8311. sara. 8312 . ...
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5606. saphaq -- to slap, clap
... the hands (in token of compact, derision, grief, indignation, or punishment); by
implication of satisfaction, to be enough; by implication of excess, to vomit ...
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Library

Whether There Can be any Excess in the Worship of God?
... OF SUPERSTITION CONSISTING IN UNDUE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD (TWO ARTICLES)
Whether there can be any excess in the worship of God? ...
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Whether Excess and Deficiency Diversify the Species of Sins?
... OF THE DISTINCTION OF SINS (NINE ARTICLES) Whether excess and deficiency
diversify the species of sins? Objection 1: It would seem ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether excess and deficiency diversify.htm

Whether Presumption is Opposed to Magnanimity by Excess?
... OF PRESUMPTION (TWO ARTICLES) Whether presumption is opposed to magnanimity
by excess? Objection 1: It seems that presumption is ...
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Whether Ambition is Opposed to Magnanimity by Excess?
... OF AMBITION (TWO ARTICLES) Whether ambition is opposed to magnanimity by excess?
Objection 1: It seems that ambition is not opposed to magnanimity by excess. ...
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Whether There Can be Sin in the Excess of Play?
... OF MODESTY AS CONSISTING IN THE OUTWARD MOVEMENTS OF THE BODY (FOUR ARTICLES)
Whether there can be sin in the excess of play? Objection ...
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Excess in Dress, as Well as in Personal Culture, to be Shunned ...
... Book II. Chapter IX."Excess in Dress, as Well as in Personal Culture,
to Be Shunned Arguments Drawn from I Cor. VII. Wherefore ...
/.../tertullian/on the apparel of women/chapter ix excess in dress as.htm

The Excess of his Pious Concern Caused Him to Shed Tears; and his ...
... Book II. Chapter LXXII."The Excess of his Pious Concern caused him to shed Tears;
and his Intended Journey to the East was postponed because of These Things. ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter lxxii the excess of his.htm

The Triacontad of the Heretics Errs Both by Defect and Excess ...
... Against Heresies: Book II Chapter XII."The Triacontad of the heretics errs both
by defect and excess: Sophia could never have produced anything apart from ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xii the triacontad of the.htm

Origin of the Devil, in the Criminal Excess of the Sorrow of ...
... Chapter XXII."Origin of the Devil, in the Criminal Excess of the Sorrow of Achamoth
The Devil, Called Also Munditenens, Actually Wiser Than the Demiurge ...
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Whether the Theological virtues Observe the Mean?
... Therefore theological virtue observes the mean. On the contrary, Wherever virtue
observes the mean it is possible to sin by excess as well as by deficiency. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the theological virtues observe.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The state of surpassing normal limits or needs; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of wealth; an excess of light.

2. (n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.

3. (n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

Thesaurus

Excess (20 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The state of surpassing normal limits or needs; superabundance; extravagance;
as, an excess of wealth; an excess of light. ...Excess (20 Occurrences). ...
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Riot (14 Occurrences)
... 4. (vi) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge
in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to ...
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Overrun (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession
of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass. ...
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Odds (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (a.) Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things
or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence ...
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Flood (70 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other
fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its ...
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Ransomed (27 Occurrences)
... Numbers 3:46 And for those that are to be ransomed, the two hundred and
seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are in excess over ...
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Excesses (3 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 4:4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to
the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil, (See NAS). ...
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Drinking (114 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drink. 2. (n.) The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
3. (n.) The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. ...
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Surfeit (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety. 4. (vi) To load the stomach with
food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess. ...
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Banquet (58 Occurrences)
... Birthday banquets are mentioned (Genesis 40:20; Matthew 14:6). They were sometimes
protracted, and attended with revelry and excess (Genesis 21:8; 29:22; 1 ...
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Bible Concordance

Excess (20 Occurrences)

Matthew 5:37 But let your language be, 'Yes, yes,' or 'No, no.' Anything in excess of this comes from the Evil one.
(WEY)

Matthew 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
(KJV ASV WBS)

Luke 12:45 But if that servant should say in his heart, 'My Master is a long time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess;
(WEY)

Luke 15:13 No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.
(WEY)

1 Corinthians 11:21 for it is his own supper of which each of you is in a hurry to partake, and one eats like a hungry man, while another has already drunk to excess.
(WEY DBY)

2 Corinthians 2:7 so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
(Root in WEB WEY DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 8:15 According as it is written, He who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little was nothing short.
(DBY)

2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.
(DBY)

Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
(KJV WEY WBS)

Titus 1:6 if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.
(DBY)

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
(KJV WBS YLT)

1 Peter 4:4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
(WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS YLT NAS)

Exodus 16:18 When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
(See NAS)

Numbers 3:46 And for those that are to be ransomed, the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are in excess over the Levites,
(DBY NAS)

Numbers 3:48 and thou shalt give the money unto Aaron and unto his sons for those in excess among them who are to be ransomed.
(DBY NAS RSV)

Numbers 3:49 Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites;
(See NAS)

1 Samuel 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
(DBY YLT)

Psalms 38:6 I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.
(YLT)

Psalms 38:8 I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.
(YLT)

Proverbs 25:16 If you have honey, take only as much as is enough for you; for fear that, being full of it, you may not be able to keep it down.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Excess

Related Terms

Riot (14 Occurrences)

Overrun (4 Occurrences)

Odds (1 Occurrence)

Flood (70 Occurrences)

Ransomed (27 Occurrences)

Excesses (3 Occurrences)

Drinking (114 Occurrences)

Surfeit (1 Occurrence)

Banquet (58 Occurrences)