Definition

superabundant (in quantity) or superior (in quality); by implication, excessive; adverbially (with G1537 (ἐκ)) violently; neuter (as noun) preeminence

Etymology

from G4012 (περί) (in the sense of beyond);

Where the KJV renders it

• exceeding abundantly above
• more abundantly
• advantage
• exceedingly
• very highly
• beyond measure
• more
• superfluous
• vehement(-ly)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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