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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - περισσεύω
περισσεύω
Transliteration: perisseúō
Pronunciation: per-is-syoo'-o
Definition: abound
- Definition:
1. to exceed a fixed number of measure, to be left over and above a certain number or measure
a. to be over, to remain
b. to exist or be at hand in abundance
1. to be great (abundant)
2. a thing which comes in abundance, or overflows unto one, something falls to the lot of one in large measure
3. to redound unto, turn out abundantly for, a thing
c. to abound, overflow
1. to be abundantly furnished with, to have in abundance, abound in (a thing), to be in affluence
2. to be pre-eminent, to excel
3. to excel more than, exceed
2. to make to abound
a. to furnish one richly so that he has abundance
b. to make abundant or excellent
- Origin: from G4053" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4053 - TDNT entry: 06:58,8 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: From G4053" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4053; to superabound (in quantity or quality) be in excess be superfluous; also (transitively) to cause to superabound or excel: - (make more) abound (have have more) abundance (be more) abundant be the better enough and to spare exceed excel increase be left redound remain (over and above).