ΛΕΙΟΥΣ, λειους
LEIOUS, leious
Sounds Like: PLAY-oos
Translations: more, greater, a greater, many, very many, most
From the root: ΠΛΕΙΩΝ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word is the masculine or feminine nominative or accusative plural form of the comparative adjective 'πλείων' (pleiōn), meaning 'more' or 'greater'. It is used to indicate a larger quantity or degree of something. The provided word 'ΛΕΙΟΥΣ' appears to be a misspelling of 'ΠΛΕΙΟΥΣ', which is a common form of this word in Koine Greek texts. The examples provided clearly use 'ΠΛΕΙΟΥΣ'.
Inflection: Plural, Masculine or Feminine, Nominative or Accusative, Comparative
Strong’s number: G4119 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Proverbs — 2:20
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Proverbs — 2:20
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΛΕΙΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΛΙΟΝΑ — more, many, most, greater, a greater
- ΠΛΕΙΟΝΑ — more, many, a greater number, a greater amount
- ΠΛΕΙΟΝΑΤΩΝ — of more, of greater, of many, of the more, of the greater, of the many
- ΠΛΕΙΟΝΩ — more, greater, a greater, more numerous, a more numerous
- ΠΛΕΙΟΣΙ — (to) more, (to) many, (to) most
- ΠΛΕΙΩΔΕ — more, greater, most, many, and more, but more
- ΠΛΕΙΩΝ — more, greater, much, many
- ΠΛΙΕΟΝ — more, greater, a greater, a more, more than, very, much, many, a many, a much
- ΠΛΙΟΝΑΣ — more, greater, a greater, more numerous, a more numerous
- ΠΛΙΟΝΕΣ — more, many, most, a greater number, the majority
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