2001 Translation

PLEIONA, pleiona

Sounds Like: PLAY-oh-nah

Translations: more, many, a greater number, a greater amount

From the root: ΠΛΕΙΩΝ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word is an adjective meaning 'more' or 'greater'. It is used to indicate a larger quantity, number, or degree of something. It can function as a comparative adjective, meaning 'more than' or 'greater than', or as a substantive, referring to 'the majority' or 'the greater part'.

Inflection: Accusative, Singular, Neuter or Accusative, Plural, Masculine or Feminine

Strong’s number: G4119 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 25:6, 32:3, A:5

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:72, 1:186, 1:194, 1:220, 1:291, 1:293, 1:322

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:36

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 24:5

Codex Sinaiticus

• Tobit — 2:2
• Proverbs — 11:24, 16:21
• Wisdom — 17:12
• Sirach — 3:23, 16:21
• Acts of the Apostles — 18:20
• Hebrews — 3:3, 11:4
• Revelation — 2:19

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 1:1
• Ignatius’ Letter to Polycarp — 1:3

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 27:251

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 3:106
• Book 2 — 15:316
• Book 4 — 8:224
• Book 7 — 14:340
• Book 8 — 11:277
• Book 9 — 11:228
• Book 11 — 5:152
• Book 12 — 5:255
• Book 14 — 13:346
• Book 19 — 1:83
• Book 20 — 10:240

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 30:9
• Book Two — 16:41, 21:3
• Book Four — 7:8
• Book Five — 12:7

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 22:4, 88:2

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 12:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 20:1
• Tobit — 2:2, 7:9
• 1 Maccabees — 11:24
• 2 Maccabees — 1:14
• Proverbs — 11:24, 16:21
• Wisdom — 17:13
• Sirach — 3:23, 16:21, 31:12
• Isaiah — 16:2
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:2
• Baruch — 4:35
• Enoch — A:5, 25:6, 32:3

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 2 — 1:4
• Parable 5 — 2:4
• Parable 9 — 18:2

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• John — 7:31, 15:2
• Acts — 18:20
• Hebrews — 3:3, 11:4
• Revelation — 2:19

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.

• ΛΕΙΟΥΣ — more, greater, a greater, many, very many, most
• ΛΙΟΝΑ — more, many, most, greater, a greater
• 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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