STRONGS NUMBER G4118


Word Summary
pleistos: most, very great, much
Original Word: πλεῖστος
Transliteration: pleistos
Phonetic Spelling: (plice'-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: most, very great, much
Meaning: most, very great, much
Strong's Concordance
most, very great, much.

Irregular superlative of polus; the largest number or very large -- very great, most.

see GREEK polus

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4118: πλεῖστος

πλεῖστος, πλείστῃ, πλεῖστον (superlative of πολύς), most: plural Matthew 11:20; (ὄχλος πλεῖστος, a very great multitude, Mark 4:1 T Tr WH); πλεῖστος ὄχλος, the most part of the multitude, Matthew 21:8 (Thucydides 7, 78; Plato, rep. 3, p. 397{d}; λαός, Homer, Iliad 16, 377); τό πλεῖστον, adverbially, at the most, 1 Corinthians 14:27.