What does περισσότερος (perissóteros) mean in the Bible?
The registry identifies G4055 as a Greek comparative adjective with the reviewed display gloss more or greater. Searching every governed current-edition BSB token produces no G4055 match.
More superabundant (in number, degree or character)
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The registry identifies G4055 as a Greek comparative adjective with the reviewed display gloss more or greater. Searching every governed current-edition BSB token produces no G4055 match.
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Full entry for περισσότερος (G4055) · Open the biblical lexicon
The registry identifies G4055 as a Greek comparative adjective with the reviewed display gloss more or greater. Searching every governed current-edition BSB token produces no G4055 match.
G4055 is connected to 15 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
The registry identifies G4055 as a Greek comparative adjective with the reviewed display gloss more or greater. Searching every governed current-edition BSB token produces no G4055 match. The selected lexicon artifact reports fifteen forms from another morphology source, but that artifact-specific report cannot be relabeled as direct governed BSB occurrence evidence.
Consequently, none of its listed references can anchor passage prose in this campaign. Direct ownership is absent, so authoring remains closed across grammatical description, corpus distribution, usage narrative, doctrinal synthesis, and personal application. Identity metadata and the artifact discrepancy remain useful for audit, but neither supplies a governed verse corpus.
For now the record keeps the lexical identity, an explicit BSB zero, and a segregated artifact count; any later authoring requires separately approved evidence. The former Pauline teaching is withdrawn because its passages lack direct G4055 ownership in the governed witness.
Because the governed witness supplies no direct occurrence, this record assigns no first-use verse to G4055.
Direct verse evidence for this code is absent in the governed current-edition BSB witness. The selected artifact's separate form report is useful for auditing the gap, yet it does not transfer passage-authoring authority to G4055.
Accordingly, this record declines to narrate first use, grammar, distribution, doctrine, or application. Resuming exposition requires an admitted direct witness or a separately governed source decision; the old Pauline narrative cannot serve as a default.
No canonical trajectory is proposed for G4055 because the governed BSB witness supplies no directly owned passage sequence.
Greek word. Excessive abundance that goes beyond necessity or expectation; surplus to requirement
Excessive abundance that goes beyond necessity or expectation; surplus to requirement
more superabundant rabundant, excess, far fetched, superfluous (in number, degree or character)
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 5 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Showing 2 selected witnesses from 15 lexical occurrence verses.
περισσότερος is built from this root:
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
G4055 presently belongs to evidence reconciliation: reviewers must account for the selected artifact's report beside an empty governed BSB token set.
It removes prior passage prose whose references are not directly owned by G4055 in the governed current-edition BSB word table.
Frame this as a source discrepancy: lexical identity is retained, direct BSB ownership is absent, and the other artifact's count cannot authorize exposition.
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
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