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Koine Greek wordlink #124768

SR GNT 2Cor 9:8 περισσεῦσαι (perisseusai) ‘god all grace to be_plentiful to you_all in_order_that’ Strongs=40520 Lemma=perisseuō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=active

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Only use of identical word form περισσεῦσαι (V-NAA....) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘περισσεῦσαι’ (V-NAA....) is always and only glossed as ‘to be_plentiful’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘περισσεῦσαι’ (V-NAA....) was always and only glossed as ‘to abound’).

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘perisseuō’ have 20 different glosses: ‘are being_plentiful’, ‘having been_leftover’, ‘is being_plentiful’, ‘may be_plentiful’, ‘may_be being_plentiful’, ‘might be_plentiful’, ‘to be_plentiful’, ‘to_be being_plentiful’, ‘will_be_being in_abundance’, ‘I am being_plentiful’, ‘he will_be_being in_abundance’, ‘he been_plentiful’, ‘they were being_plentiful’, ‘they were_leftover’, ‘we are being_plentiful’, ‘you_all are being_plentiful’, ‘you_all may_be being_plentiful’, ‘been_plentiful’, ‘being_leftover’, ‘being_plentiful’.

Greek words (6) other than περισσεῦσαι (V-NAA....) with a gloss related to ‘be_plentiful’

MAT 5:20 περισσεύσῃ (perisseusaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘that if not may be_plentiful of you_all righteousness more’ SR GNT Mat 5:20 word 7

ROM 5:20 πλεονάσῃ (pleonasaʸ) V-SAA3..S Lemma=pleonazō ‘and slipped_in in_order_that may be_plentiful the transgression where’ SR GNT Rom 5:20 word 5

ROM 6:1 πλεονάσῃ (pleonasaʸ) V-SAA3..S Lemma=pleonazō ‘in sin in_order_that grace may be_plentiful’ SR GNT Rom 6:1 word 12

2COR 4:15 περισσεύσῃ (perisseusaʸ) V-SAA3..S ‘more the thanksgiving may be_plentiful to the glory’ SR GNT 2Cor 4:15 word 15

1TH 3:12 πλεονάσαι (pleonasai) V-OAA3..S Lemma=pleonazō ‘and the master might be_plentiful and might be_plentiful in love’ SR GNT 1Th 3:12 word 6

1TH 3:12 περισσεύσαι (perisseusai) V-OAA3..S ‘master might be_plentiful and might be_plentiful in love toward one_another’ SR GNT 1Th 3:12 word 8

Key: V=verb NAA....=infinitive,aorist,active OAA3..S=optative,aorist,active,3rd person singular SAA3..S=subjunctive,aorist,active,3rd person singular