Berean Strong's Lexicon polus: many, much, great Original Word: πολύς Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: polus Pronunciation: po-LOOS Phonetic Spelling: (pol-oos') Definition: many, much, great Meaning: much, many; often. Word Origin: A primary word Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: - רַב (rab) - Strong's Hebrew 7227, meaning "many" or "great." - מְאֹד (me'od) - Strong's Hebrew 3966, often used to express "much" or "very." Usage: The Greek adjective "polus" is used to describe a large quantity or number. It can refer to many people, much of something, or a great extent or degree. In the New Testament, "polus" is often used to emphasize abundance or multitude, whether in terms of people, things, or abstract concepts like time or effort. Cultural and Historical Background: In the Greco-Roman world, the concept of abundance was often associated with prosperity and blessing. The use of "polus" in the New Testament reflects a cultural understanding of abundance as a sign of God's provision and favor. The term is frequently used in contexts that highlight the vastness of God's kingdom, the multitude of believers, or the extensive reach of Jesus' ministry. HELPS Word-studies 4183 polýs – many (high in number); multitudinous, plenteous, "much"; "great" in amount (extent). 4183 /polýs ("much in number") emphasizes the quantity involved. 4183 (polýs) "signifies 'many, numerous'; . . . with the article it is said of a multitude as being numerous" (Vine, Unger, White, NT, 113,114) – i.e. great in amount. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionmuch, many NASB Translationall (3), better (1), deep (1), earnestly (3), enough (1), even more (1), few* (1), freely (1), full (1), further (1), further* (3), great (33), greater (4), greater numbers (1), greatly (5), hard (2), harshly (1), heartily (1), high price (1), large (30), large numbers (1), large sums (1), larger (1), late* (2), lengthy (1), long (5), longer (1), loudly (1), majority (3), many (181), many more (1), many people (1), many subjects (1), many things (17), many...things (4), more (25), more numerous (1), most (8), most people's (1), much (50), often (1), plentiful (2), quite (2), several (1), some (1), something greater (2), strict (1), terrible (1), very (1), very large (1), very long (1), very much (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4183: πολύςπολύς, πολλή (from an older form πολλός, found in Homer, Hesiod, Pindar), πολύ; ((cf. Curtius, § 375)); the Sept. chiefly for רַב; much; used a. of multitude, number, etc., many, numerous, great: ἀριθμός, Acts 11:21; λαός, Acts 18:10; ὄχλος, Mark 5:24; Mark 6:34; ( L T Tr WH); Luke 7:11; Luke 8:4; John 6:2, 5; Revelation 7:9; Revelation 19:6, etc.; πλῆθος, Mark 3:7; Luke 5:6; Acts 14:1, etc.; equivalent to abundant, plenteous (A. V. often much), καρπός, John 12:24; John 15:5, 8; θερισμός (the harvest to be gathered), Matthew 9:37; Luke 10:2; γῆ, Matthew 13:5; Mark 4:5; χόρτος, John 6:10; οἶνος, 1 Timothy 3:8; plural πολλοί τελῶναι, Matthew 9:10; Mark 2:15; πολλοί προφῆται, Matthew 13:17; Luke 10:24; σοφοί, 1 Corinthians 1:26; πατέρες, 1 Corinthians 4:15; δυνάμεις, Matthew 7:22; Matthew 13:58, etc.; ὄχλοι, Matthew 4:25; Matthew 8:1; Matthew 12:15 (but here L T WH omit; Tr brackets ὄχλοι); Luke 5:15, etc.; δαιμόνια, Mark 1:34; and in many other examples; with participles used substantively, Matthew 8:16; 1 Corinthians 16:9, etc.; with the article prefixed: αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αὐτῆς αἱ πολλαί, her sins which are many, Luke 7:47; τά πολλά γράμματα, the great learning with which I see that you are furnished, Acts 26:24; ὁ πολύς ὄχλος, the great multitude of common people present, Mark 12:37 (cf. ὁ ὄχλος πολύς, John 12:9 T Tr marginal reading WH; see ὄχλος, 1). Plural masculine πολλοί, absolutely and without the article, many, a large part of mankind: πολλοί simply, Matthew 7:13, 22; Matthew 20:28; Matthew 26:28; Mark 2:2; Mark 3:10; Mark 10:45; Mark 14:24; Luke 1:1, 14; Hebrews 9:28, and very often; opposed to ὀλίγοι, Matthew 20:16 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the clause); ἕτεροι πολλοί, Acts 15:35; ἄλλαι πολλαί, Mark 15:41; ἕτεραι πολλαί, Luke 8:3; πολλοί followed by a partitive genitive, as τῶν Φαρισαίων, Matthew 3:7; add, Luke 1:16; John 12:11; Acts 4:4; Acts 13:43; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Revelation 8:11, etc.; followed by ἐκ with a genitive of class, as πολλοί ἐκ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ, John 6:60; add, ; Acts 17:12; πολλοί ἐκ τῆς πόλεως, John 4:39. with the article prefixed, οἱ πολλοί, the many (cf. Winer's Grammar, 110 (105)): those contrasted with ὁ εἷς (i. e. both with Adam and with Christ), according to the context equivalent to the rest of mankind, Romans 5:15, 19, cf. Romans 5:12, 18; we the (i. e. who are) many, Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 10:17; the many whom ye know, 2 Corinthians 2:17; the many i. e. the most part, the majority, Matthew 24:12; 1 Corinthians 10:33. b. with nouns denoting an action, an emotion, a state, which can be said to have as it were measure, weight, force, intensity, size, continuance, or repetition, much equivalent to great, strong, intense, large: ἀγάπη, Ephesians 2:4; ὀδύνη, 1 Timothy 6:10; θρῆνος, κλαυθμός, ὀδυρμός, Matthew 2:18; χαρά (Rec.st χάρις), Philemon 1:7; ἐπιθυμία, 1 Thessalonians 2:17; μακροθυμία, Romans 9:22; ἔλεος, 1 Peter 1:3; γογγυσμός, John 7:12; τρόμος, 1 Corinthians 2:3; πόνος (Rec. ζῆλος), Colossians 4:13; ἀγών, 1 Thessalonians 2:2; ἄθλησις, Hebrews 10:32; θλῖψις, 2 Corinthians 2:4; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; καύχησις, 2 Corinthians 7:4; πεποίθησις, 2 Corinthians 8:22; πληροφορία, 1 Thessalonians 1:5; παρρησία, 2 Corinthians 3:12; 2 Corinthians 7:4; 1 Timothy 3:13; Philemon 1:8; παράκλησις, 2 Corinthians 8:4; συζήτησις (T WH Tr text ζήτησις), Acts 15:7; Acts 28:29 (Rec.); στάσις, Acts 23:10; ἀσιτία, Acts 27:21; βία, Acts 24:7 (Rec.); διακονία, Luke 10:40; σιγή, deep silence, Acts 21:40 (Xenophon, Cyril 7, 1, 25); φαντασία, Acts 25:23; δύναμις καί δόξα, Matthew 24:30; Luke 21:27; μισθός, Matthew 5:12; Luke 6:23, 35; εἰρήνη, Acts 24:2 (3); περί οὗ πολύς ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος, about which (but see λόγος, I. 3 a.) we have much (in readiness) to say, Hebrews 5:11 (πολύν λόγον ποιεῖσθαι περί τίνος, Plato, Phaedo, p. 115{d}; cf. Lex. Plato, iii., p. 148). c. of time, much, long: πολύν χρόνον, John 5:6; μετά χρόνον πολύν, Matthew 25:19; ὥρα πολλή, much time (i. e. a large part of the day) is spent (see ὥρα, 2), Mark 6:35; ὥρας πολλῆς γενομένης (Tdf. γινομένης), of a late hour of the day, ibid. (so πολλῆς ὥρας, Polybius 5, 8, 3; ἐπί πολλήν ὥραν, Josephus, Antiquities 8, 4, 4; Ἐμάχοντο ... ἄχρι πολλῆς ὥρας, Dionysius Halicarnassus, 2, 54); πολλοῖς χρόνοις, for a long time, Luke 8:29 (οὐ πολλῷ χρόνῳ, Herodian, 1, 6, 24 (8 edition, Bekker); χρόνοις πολλοῖς ὕστερον, Plutarch, Thes. 6; (see χρόνος, under the end)); εἰς ἔτη πολλά, Luke 12:19; (ἐκ or) ἀπό πολλῶν ἐτῶν, Acts 24:10; Romans 15:23 (here WH Tr text ἀπό ἱκανῶν ἐτῶν); ἐπί πολύ, (for) a long time, Acts 28:6; μετ' οὐ πολύ, not long after (see μετά, II. 2 b.), Acts 27:14. d. Neuter singular πολύ, much, substantively, equivalent to many things: Luke 12:48; much, adverbially, of the mode and degree of an action: ἠγάπησε, Luke 7:47; πλανᾶσθε, Mark 12:27; namely, ὠφελεῖ, Romans 3:2. πολλοῦ as a genitive of price (from Homer down; cf. Passow, under the word, IV. b. vol. ii., p. 1013a; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 206 (194))): πραθῆναι, for much, Matthew 26:9. ἐν πολλῷ, in (administering) much (i. e. many things), Luke 16:10; with great labor, great effort, Acts 26:29 (where L T Tr WH ἐν μεγάλῳ (see μέγας, 1 a. γ.)). with a comparitive (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 35, 1): πολύ σπουδαιότερον, 2 Corinthians 8:22 (in Greek writings from Homer down); πολλῷ πλείους, many more, John 4:41; πολλῷ (or πολύ) μᾶλλον, see μᾶλλον, 1 a. following with the article, τό πολύ, German das Viele (opposed to τό ὀλίγον), 2 Corinthians 8:15 (cf. Buttmann, 395 (338); Winer's Grammar, 589 (548)). Plural, πολλά α. many things; as, διδάσκειν, λαλεῖν, Matthew 13:3; Mark 4:2; Mark 6:34; John 8:26; John 14:30; παθεῖν, Matthew 16:21; Mark 5:26; Mark 9:12; Luke 9:22, etc., and often in Greek writings from Pindar Ol. 13, 90 down; ποιεῖν, Mark 6:20 (T Tr marginal reading WH ἀπόρειν); πρᾶξαι, Acts 26:9; add as other examples, Matthew 25:21, 23; Mark 12:41; Mark 15:3; John 16:12; 2 Corinthians 8:22; 2 John 1:12; 3 John 1:13; πολλά καί ἀλλά, John 20:30. (On the Greek (and Latin) usage which treats the notion of multitude not as something external to a thing and consisting merely in a comparison of it with other things, but as an attribute inhering in the thing itself, and hence, capable of being co-ordinated with another attributive word by means of καί (which see, I. 3), see Kühner, § 523, 1 (or on Xenophon, mem. 1, 2, 24); Bäumlein, Partikeln, p. 146; Krüger, § 69, 32, 3; Lob. Paral., p. 60; Herm. ad Vig., p. 835; Winers Grammar, § 59, 3 at the end; Buttmann, 362f (311). Cf. Passow, under the word, I. 3 a.; Liddell and Scott, under II. 2.) β. adverbially (cf. Winers Grammar, 463 (432); Buttmann, § 128, 2), much: Mark ( T Tr marginal reading (?) WH (see ἀπορέω)); ; Romans 16:6, 12 (L brackets the clause); in many ways, James 3:2; with many words (R. V. much), with verbs of saying; as, κηρύσσειν, παρακαλεῖν, etc., Mark 1:45; Mark 3:12; Mark 5:10, 23, 43; 1 Corinthians 16:12; many times, often, repeatedly: Matthew 9:14 (R G Tr WH marginal reading) (and often in Greek writings from Homer down; cf. Passow, under the word, V. 1 a. vol. ii., p. 1013{b}; (Liddell and Scott, III. a.); Stallbaum on Plato, Phaedo, p. 61 c.); with the article πολλά, for the most part (R. V. these many times) (Vulg.plurimum), Romans 15:22 (L Tr marginal reading πολλάκις) (examples from Greek writings are given by Passow, the passage cited (Liddell and Scott, the passage cited), and by Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans, iii., p. 281).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance abundant, many, much Including the forms from the alternate pollos; (singular) much (in any respect) or (plural) many; neuter (singular) as adverbial, largely; neuter (plural) as adverb or noun often, mostly, largely -- abundant, + altogether, common, + far (passed, spent), (+ be of a) great (age, deal, -ly, while), long, many, much, oft(-en (-times)), plenteous, sore, straitly. Compare pleistos, pleion. see GREEK pleistos see GREEK pleion Forms and Transliterations πλειον πλείον πλείόν πλείονα πλείονά πλείονας πλείονες πλείονές πλείονι πλείονος πλειόνων πλείοσι πλείοσιν πλειούς πλείους πλείστα πλείσται πλείστοι πλείστον πλείστος πλέον πολής πολλα πολλά πολλὰ πολλαι πολλαί πολλαὶ πολλαις πολλαίς πολλαῖς πολλας πολλάς πολλὰς πολλη πολλή πολλὴ πολλῇ πολλην πολλήν πολλὴν πολλης πολλής πολλῆς ΠΟΛΛΟΙ πολλοί πολλοὶ πολλοις πολλοίς πολλοῖς πολλου πολλού πολλοῦ πολλους πολλούς πολλοὺς πολλω πολλώ πολλῷ πολλων πολλών πολλῶν πολυ πολύ πολὺ πολυν πολύν πολὺν πολυς πολύς πολὺς polla pollá pollà pollai pollaí pollaì pollais pollaîs pollas pollás pollàs polle pollē pollḗ pollḕ pollêi pollē̂i pollen pollēn pollḗn pollḕn polles pollês pollēs pollē̂s pollo pollō POLLOI polloí polloì pollôi pollō̂i pollois polloîs pollon pollôn pollōn pollō̂n pollou polloû pollous polloús polloùs polu polun polus poly polý polỳ polyn polýn polỳn polys polýs polỳsLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Matthew 2:18 Adj-NMSGRK: καὶ ὀδυρμὸς πολύς Ῥαχὴλ κλαίουσαNAS: WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING, KJV: weeping, and great mourning, Rachel INT: and mourning great Rachel weeping [for] Matthew 3:7 Adj-AMP GRK: Ἰδὼν δὲ πολλοὺς τῶν Φαρισαίων NAS: But when he saw many of the Pharisees KJV: when he saw many of the Pharisees INT: having seen moreover many of the Pharisees Matthew 4:25 Adj-NMP GRK: αὐτῷ ὄχλοι πολλοὶ ἀπὸ τῆς NAS: Large crowds followed KJV: him great multitudes of people INT: him crowds great from Matthew 5:12 Adj-NMS GRK: μισθὸς ὑμῶν πολὺς ἐν τοῖς NAS: in heaven is great; for in the same way KJV: for great [is] your INT: reward of you [is] great in the Matthew 6:30 Adj-DNS GRK: ἀμφιέννυσιν οὐ πολλῷ μᾶλλον ὑμᾶς NAS: into the furnace, [will He] not much more KJV: [shall he] not much more INT: clothes [will he] not much more you Matthew 7:13 Adj-NMP GRK: ἀπώλειαν καὶ πολλοί εἰσιν οἱ NAS: and there are many who enter KJV: destruction, and many there be which INT: destruction and many are they who Matthew 7:22 Adj-NMP GRK: πολλοὶ ἐροῦσίν μοι NAS: Many will say to Me on that day, KJV: Many will say to me INT: Many will say to me Matthew 7:22 Adj-AFP GRK: ὀνόματι δυνάμεις πολλὰς ἐποιήσαμεν NAS: perform many miracles?' KJV: name done many wonderful works? INT: name works of power many perform Matthew 8:1 Adj-NMP GRK: αὐτῷ ὄχλοι πολλοί NAS: from the mountain, large crowds KJV: the mountain, great multitudes INT: him crowds great Matthew 8:11 Adj-NMP GRK: ὑμῖν ὅτι πολλοὶ ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν NAS: I say to you that many will come KJV: unto you, That many shall come from INT: to you that many from east Matthew 8:16 Adj-AMP GRK: αὐτῷ δαιμονιζομένους πολλούς καὶ ἐξέβαλεν NAS: they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; KJV: unto him many that were possessed with devils: INT: to him possessed with demons many and he cast out Matthew 8:30 Adj-GMP GRK: ἀγέλη χοίρων πολλῶν βοσκομένη NAS: there was a herd of many swine KJV: them an herd of many swine feeding. INT: a herd of pigs many feeding Matthew 9:10 Adj-NMP GRK: καὶ ἰδοὺ πολλοὶ τελῶναι καὶ NAS: behold, many tax collectors KJV: behold, many publicans and INT: that behold many tax collectors and Matthew 9:14 Adj-ANP GRK: Φαρισαῖοι νηστεύομεν πολλά οἱ δὲ INT: Pharisees do fast often the however Matthew 9:37 Adj-NMS GRK: μὲν θερισμὸς πολύς οἱ δὲ NAS: The harvest is plentiful, but the workers KJV: truly [is] plenteous, but INT: indeed harvest [is] great the however Matthew 10:31 Adj-GNP GRK: οὖν φοβεῖσθε πολλῶν στρουθίων διαφέρετε NAS: you are more valuable than many sparrows. KJV: are of more value than many sparrows. INT: therefore you should fear than many sparrows are worth more Matthew 12:15 Adj-NMP GRK: αὐτῷ ὄχλοι πολλοί καὶ ἐθεράπευσεν NAS: from there. Many followed KJV: and great multitudes INT: him multitudes many and he healed Matthew 13:2 Adj-NMP GRK: αὐτὸν ὄχλοι πολλοί ὥστε αὐτὸν NAS: And large crowds gathered KJV: And great multitudes INT: him crowds great so that he Matthew 13:3 Adj-ANP GRK: ἐλάλησεν αὐτοῖς πολλὰ ἐν παραβολαῖς NAS: And He spoke many things to them in parables, KJV: And he spake many things unto them in INT: he spoke to them many things in parables Matthew 13:5 Adj-AFS GRK: εἶχεν γῆν πολλήν καὶ εὐθέως NAS: they did not have much soil; KJV: they had not much earth: and INT: they had soil much and immediately Matthew 13:17 Adj-NMP GRK: ὑμῖν ὅτι πολλοὶ προφῆται καὶ NAS: I say to you that many prophets KJV: unto you, That many prophets and INT: to you that many prophets and Matthew 13:58 Adj-AFP GRK: ἐκεῖ δυνάμεις πολλὰς διὰ τὴν NAS: And He did not do many miracles there KJV: he did not many mighty works there INT: there works of power many because the Matthew 14:14 Adj-AMS GRK: ἐξελθὼν εἶδεν πολὺν ὄχλον καὶ NAS: He saw a large crowd, KJV: and saw a great multitude, INT: having gone out he saw great a crowd and Matthew 14:24 Adj-AMP GRK: ἤδη σταδίους πολλοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς NAS: was already a long distance INT: now distance long from the Matthew 15:30 Adj-NMP GRK: αὐτῷ ὄχλοι πολλοὶ ἔχοντες μεθ' NAS: And large crowds came KJV: And great multitudes came INT: to him crowds great having with Strong's Greek 4183 361 Occurrences
πολλά — 66 Occ. πολλαὶ — 6 Occ. πολλαῖς — 4 Occ. πολλὰς — 11 Occ. πολλή — 12 Occ. πολλήν — 10 Occ. πολλῆς — 14 Occ. πολλῷ — 20 Occ. πολλῶν — 39 Occ. πολλοὶ — 84 Occ. πολλοῖς — 7 Occ. πολλοῦ — 7 Occ. πολλοὺς — 23 Occ. πολὺ — 23 Occ. πολὺν — 9 Occ. πολύς — 26 Occ.
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