Definition

to do, make or be more, i.e. increase (transitively or intransitively); by extension, to superabound

Etymology

from G4119 (πλείων);

Where the KJV renders it

• abound
• abundant
• make to increase
• have over

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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