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Koine Greek wordlink #14263

SR GNT Mat 21:8 πλεῖστος (pleistos) ‘the and very_great crowd spread of themselves’ Strongs=41180 Lemma=pleistos
Word role=adjective case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=33 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form πλεῖστος (A-NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πλεῖστος’ (A-NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘very_great’.

Mark 4:1 ‘to him a crowd very_great so_that him into’ SR GNT Mark 4:1 word 20

OET-LV: 4 And again he _began to _be _teaching beside the sea. And a_ very _great _crowd is _being _gathered _together to him, so _that him having _boarded into the boat, to _be _sitting in the sea, and all the crowd were on the land to the sea. (MRK_4:1)

OET-RV: 4 Again Yeshua started teaching by the edge of the lake. A huge crowd gathered around him, but he had boarded a boat that was floating in the water, and all the people were there on the land. (MRK 4:1)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘pleistos’ have 2 different glosses: ‘most’, ‘very_great’.

Key: A=adjective NMS=nominative,masculine,singular