Strong G3123G3123Gμᾶλλον
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One of the 2 senses of Strong G3123
- Transliteration
- mallon
- Pronunciation
- mal'-lon
- Morphology
- Greek Adverb
Definition
Neuter of the comparative of the same as G3122; (adverb) more (in a greater degree) or rather: - + better X far (the) more (and more) (so) much (the more) rather.
Detailed definition
μάλα
adv., [in LXX for אֲבָל, 3Ki.1:43, Dan LXX 10:21, al.; compar. for מ, Num.13:32 (31), al.; μᾶλλον ἠ (מ), Gen.19:9, al.; superlat., 2Ma.8:7, 4Ma.4:22 12:9 15:4;]
I. Pos., very, very much, exceedingly (cl.; LXX ut supr.; in NT its place is taken by λίαν, σφόδρα, etc.).
II. Compar., μᾶλλον.
1. Of increase, more; with qualifying words: πολλῷ, Mrk.10:48, Luk.18:39, Rom.5:15, 17, Php.2:12, al.; πόσῳ, Luk.12:24, Rom.11:12, al.; τοσούτῳ... ὅσῳ, Heb.10:25.
2. Of comparison, the more: Luk.5:15, Jhn.5:18, Act.5:14, 1Th.4:1, 10, 2Pe.1:10; ἔτι μ. καὶ μ., Php.1:9; with compar., Mrk.7:36, 2Co.7:13; πολλῴ μ. κρεῖσον, Php.1:23; μ. διαφέρειν, with genitive, Mat.6:26; μ. ἤ, Mat.18:13; with genitive, 1Co.14:18; as periphr. for compar., Act.20:35, 1Co.9:15, Gal.4:27; μ. δέ (EV, yea rather), Rom.8:34.
3. Of preference, rather, the rather, sooner: with qualifying words, πολλῷ, Mat.6:30, al.; πολύ, Heb.12:25; πόσῳ, Mat.7:11, al.; in a question, οὐ μ., 1Co.9:12; after a neg., Mat.10:6, al.; θέλω (εὐδοκῶ) μ., 1Co.14:5, 2Co.5:8; ζηλῶ, 1Co.14:1; with subst., τ. σκότος ἢ τ. φῶς, Jhn.3:19; μ. δέ, Gal.4:9.
III. Superl., μάλιστα
, most, most of all, above all: Act.20:38 25:26, Gal.6:10, Php.4:22, 1Ti.4:10 5:8, 17, 2Ti.4:13, Tit.1:10, Phm 16, 2Pe.2:10; μ. γνώστης, Act.26:3
(AS)
adv., [in LXX for אֲבָל, 3Ki.1:43, Dan LXX 10:21, al.; compar. for מ, Num.13:32 (31), al.; μᾶλλον ἠ (מ), Gen.19:9, al.; superlat., 2Ma.8:7, 4Ma.4:22 12:9 15:4;]
I. Pos., very, very much, exceedingly (cl.; LXX ut supr.; in NT its place is taken by λίαν, σφόδρα, etc.).
II. Compar., μᾶλλον.
1. Of increase, more; with qualifying words: πολλῷ, Mrk.10:48, Luk.18:39, Rom.5:15, 17, Php.2:12, al.; πόσῳ, Luk.12:24, Rom.11:12, al.; τοσούτῳ... ὅσῳ, Heb.10:25.
2. Of comparison, the more: Luk.5:15, Jhn.5:18, Act.5:14, 1Th.4:1, 10, 2Pe.1:10; ἔτι μ. καὶ μ., Php.1:9; with compar., Mrk.7:36, 2Co.7:13; πολλῴ μ. κρεῖσον, Php.1:23; μ. διαφέρειν, with genitive, Mat.6:26; μ. ἤ, Mat.18:13; with genitive, 1Co.14:18; as periphr. for compar., Act.20:35, 1Co.9:15, Gal.4:27; μ. δέ (EV, yea rather), Rom.8:34.
3. Of preference, rather, the rather, sooner: with qualifying words, πολλῷ, Mat.6:30, al.; πολύ, Heb.12:25; πόσῳ, Mat.7:11, al.; in a question, οὐ μ., 1Co.9:12; after a neg., Mat.10:6, al.; θέλω (εὐδοκῶ) μ., 1Co.14:5, 2Co.5:8; ζηλῶ, 1Co.14:1; with subst., τ. σκότος ἢ τ. φῶς, Jhn.3:19; μ. δέ, Gal.4:9.
III. Superl., μάλιστα
, most, most of all, above all: Act.20:38 25:26, Gal.6:10, Php.4:22, 1Ti.4:10 5:8, 17, 2Ti.4:13, Tit.1:10, Phm 16, 2Pe.2:10; μ. γνώστης, Act.26:3
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3123G appears in 49 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- more41
- rather6
- far1
- much1
First verses
- Matthew 6:26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
- Matthew 6:30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
- Matthew 7:11If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
- Matthew 10:25It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
- Matthew 18:13And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
- Mark 7:36And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
- Mark 10:48And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
- Luke 5:15But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
- Luke 11:13If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
- Luke 12:24Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
- Luke 12:28If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
- Luke 18:39And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
- John 5:18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
- John 12:43For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
- John 19:8When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
- Acts 5:14And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
- Acts 9:22But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
- Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
- Acts 22:2(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
- Acts 27:11Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
Included with: μάλα [μᾰλᾰ;
but [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] sometimes uses the ultima long before λ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.214, 4.379)]; before μ, [Refs (10.172],)] adverb very, exceedingly, prefixed or subjoined to Adjectives, Verbs, and Adverbs:
1 strengthening the word with which it stands,
1.a with adjectives, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus most frequently, μάλα πολλά)] very many, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.1)]; μ. πᾶσα, μ. πάντα, every one, all together, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.741, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.306, etc.)]; μάλ᾽ ἀσκηθής all unhurt, [Refs (5.26)]; ἀβληχρὸς μ. τοῖος quite gentle, [Refs (11.135)]; σαρδάνιον μ. τοῖον a quite sardonic smile,[Refs (20.302; μάλα μυρίοι 15.556, 16.121, etc.)]; ἐμέο πρότερος μ. actually before me, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.124)]; later, μ. φιλόσοφοι, πλάτανος μάλ᾽ ἀμφιλαφής, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 126b, “Phdr.” 230b, etc.: strengthened, μ. δὴ πρεσβύτης)] very old, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.1; μ. γέ τινες ὀλίγοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 531e.)]
1.b with Advs., πάγχυ μ., μ. πάγχυ, quite utterly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.165, 14.143; πάνυ μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 80c)]; εὖ μ. right well, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.190, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 92d, etc.; μάλα.. εὖ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.175, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 156a)]; μάλ᾽ αὐτίκα (see. αὐτίκα); μάλ᾽ αἰεί for ever and aye, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.557, 23.717)]; ἄχρι μ. κνέφαος until quite dark, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.370)]; μάλ᾽ ὧδε just in this way, [Refs (6.258)]; μ. διαμπερές right through, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.362)]; μ. μόλις (see. μόλις); to express repeated action, μάλ᾽ αὖθις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1345, “Ch.” 654; μάλ᾽ αὖ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1410, etc.)]; μ. alone, ἔα, ἔα μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 870; οἲ μ. καὶ τόδ᾽ ἀλγῶ [prev. author] “Pers.” 1045 (Lyric poetry); εἶα μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 460s q. (so ἄλλος πύργος.., καὶ ἕτερος μ. ἐπὶ τούτῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.181, compare 7.186): frequently after καί, αὗταί σ᾽ ὁδηγήσουσι καὶ μάλ᾽ ἀσμένως 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 728, compare “Ch.” 879: with _negative_, μάλ᾽ οὐ, μάλ᾽ οὔ πως, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.241, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.103; οὐ μ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.93, 2.37, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 676 (Lyric poetry).)]
1.c with Verbs, μήτ᾽ ἄρ με μάλ᾽ αἴνεε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.249; μ. τ᾽ ἔκλυον αὐτοῦ 1.218)]; ἡ δὲ μάλ᾽ ἡνιόχευεν drove carefully, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.319)]; μ... προπέμπει in earnest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 915 (Lyric poetry), compare “Eu.” 368 (Lyric poetry); καὶ μ. δοκοῦντας φρονίμους εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.36; μ. πολιορκούμενοι [prev. author] “HG” 7.1.25.)]
2 strengthening an assertion, νῦν σε μ. χρὴ αἰχμητὴν ἔμεναι, i.e. now or never, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.492)]; τῷ κε μάλ᾽ ἤ κεν μεῖνε.. then doubtless he would have stayed, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.733)]; σοὶ δὲ μάλ᾽ ἕψομ᾽ ἐγώ yes indeed.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.108)]; ἀλλὰ μάλ᾽ ὤφελλες why plainly.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.472: frequently with another word, as ἦ μ. δή)].. now in very truth, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.422, etc.; ἦ δή που μ. 21.583; frequently ἦ μ. (without δή) 3.204, etc.)]
3 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus sometimes after εἰ, as εἰ μ. μιν χόλος ἵκοι)] if wrath come on him ever so much, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.399, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.485, +others; καὶ εἰ μ. τις πολεμίζοι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.318)]; also μ. περ with participle, μ. περ μεμαώς though desiring never so much, [Refs (13.317, compare 14.58, 17.710, +others)]; καὶ μ. περ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.217, compare 17.571; καὶ εὐρέα περ μάλ᾽ ἐόντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.385.)]
4 in Attic dialect frequently in answers, yes, certainly, μ. γε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 555d, 564e, etc.; μ. τοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.46; καὶ μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 258c; καὶ μ. γε [prev. author] “Tht.” 148c, etc.; καὶ μ. δή [prev. work] 177a)]; καὶ μ. ἐπαύσατο certainly it stopped, [Refs ([prev. author] “Smp.” 189a, etc.)]
but [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] sometimes uses the ultima long before λ, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.214, 4.379)]; before μ, [Refs (10.172],)] adverb very, exceedingly, prefixed or subjoined to Adjectives, Verbs, and Adverbs:
1 strengthening the word with which it stands,
1.a with adjectives, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus most frequently, μάλα πολλά)] very many, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.1)]; μ. πᾶσα, μ. πάντα, every one, all together, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.741, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.306, etc.)]; μάλ᾽ ἀσκηθής all unhurt, [Refs (5.26)]; ἀβληχρὸς μ. τοῖος quite gentle, [Refs (11.135)]; σαρδάνιον μ. τοῖον a quite sardonic smile,[Refs (20.302; μάλα μυρίοι 15.556, 16.121, etc.)]; ἐμέο πρότερος μ. actually before me, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.124)]; later, μ. φιλόσοφοι, πλάτανος μάλ᾽ ἀμφιλαφής, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 126b, “Phdr.” 230b, etc.: strengthened, μ. δὴ πρεσβύτης)] very old, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.1; μ. γέ τινες ὀλίγοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 531e.)]
1.b with Advs., πάγχυ μ., μ. πάγχυ, quite utterly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.165, 14.143; πάνυ μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 80c)]; εὖ μ. right well, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.190, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 92d, etc.; μάλα.. εὖ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.175, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 156a)]; μάλ᾽ αὐτίκα (see. αὐτίκα); μάλ᾽ αἰεί for ever and aye, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.557, 23.717)]; ἄχρι μ. κνέφαος until quite dark, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.370)]; μάλ᾽ ὧδε just in this way, [Refs (6.258)]; μ. διαμπερές right through, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.362)]; μ. μόλις (see. μόλις); to express repeated action, μάλ᾽ αὖθις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1345, “Ch.” 654; μάλ᾽ αὖ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1410, etc.)]; μ. alone, ἔα, ἔα μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 870; οἲ μ. καὶ τόδ᾽ ἀλγῶ [prev. author] “Pers.” 1045 (Lyric poetry); εἶα μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 460s q. (so ἄλλος πύργος.., καὶ ἕτερος μ. ἐπὶ τούτῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.181, compare 7.186): frequently after καί, αὗταί σ᾽ ὁδηγήσουσι καὶ μάλ᾽ ἀσμένως 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 728, compare “Ch.” 879: with _negative_, μάλ᾽ οὐ, μάλ᾽ οὔ πως, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.241, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.103; οὐ μ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.93, 2.37, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 676 (Lyric poetry).)]
1.c with Verbs, μήτ᾽ ἄρ με μάλ᾽ αἴνεε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.249; μ. τ᾽ ἔκλυον αὐτοῦ 1.218)]; ἡ δὲ μάλ᾽ ἡνιόχευεν drove carefully, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.319)]; μ... προπέμπει in earnest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 915 (Lyric poetry), compare “Eu.” 368 (Lyric poetry); καὶ μ. δοκοῦντας φρονίμους εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.36; μ. πολιορκούμενοι [prev. author] “HG” 7.1.25.)]
2 strengthening an assertion, νῦν σε μ. χρὴ αἰχμητὴν ἔμεναι, i.e. now or never, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.492)]; τῷ κε μάλ᾽ ἤ κεν μεῖνε.. then doubtless he would have stayed, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.733)]; σοὶ δὲ μάλ᾽ ἕψομ᾽ ἐγώ yes indeed.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.108)]; ἀλλὰ μάλ᾽ ὤφελλες why plainly.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.472: frequently with another word, as ἦ μ. δή)].. now in very truth, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.422, etc.; ἦ δή που μ. 21.583; frequently ἦ μ. (without δή) 3.204, etc.)]
3 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus sometimes after εἰ, as εἰ μ. μιν χόλος ἵκοι)] if wrath come on him ever so much, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.399, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.485, +others; καὶ εἰ μ. τις πολεμίζοι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.318)]; also μ. περ with participle, μ. περ μεμαώς though desiring never so much, [Refs (13.317, compare 14.58, 17.710, +others)]; καὶ μ. περ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.217, compare 17.571; καὶ εὐρέα περ μάλ᾽ ἐόντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.385.)]
4 in Attic dialect frequently in answers, yes, certainly, μ. γε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 555d, 564e, etc.; μ. τοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.46; καὶ μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 258c; καὶ μ. γε [prev. author] “Tht.” 148c, etc.; καὶ μ. δή [prev. work] 177a)]; καὶ μ. ἐπαύσατο certainly it stopped, [Refs ([prev. author] “Smp.” 189a, etc.)]