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2.
(
,
, 2425), “enough, much, many,” is translated “much,” e.g., in Luke
7:12 (in some mss. Acts 5:37; see the
RV
); Acts 11:24, 26; 19:26; 27:9. See
ABLE
,
ENOUGH
, A, No. 2,
GREAT
,
LARGE
,
MANY
,
MEET
,
SECURITY
,
SORE
,
SUFFICIENT
,
WORTHY
.
Notes:
(1) For “much more,” “so much the more,” see
MORE
. (2) In John 12:9, the
RV
has “the common people” for “much people.” (3) In Acts 27:16,
KJV
,
$
, “to be
able,” with
, “scarcely,” is translated “had much work” (
RV
, “were able, with
difficulty”). (4) In Luke 19:15,
KJV
, the pronoun , “what” (
RV
), is translated “how
much.” (5) The adjective
$
, “so great, so much,” is translated “so much (bread),”
in Matt. 15:33, plural,
RV
, “so many (loaves)”; in the genitive case, of price, in Acts 5:8,
“for so much”; in the dative case, of degree, in Heb. 1:4,
RV
, “by so much” (
KJV
, “so
much”); so in Heb. 10:25; in Heb. 7:22 “by so much” translates the phrase
$ ;
in Rev. 18:7, “so much.” (6) See
DISPLEASED
,
EXHORTATION
,
PERPLEX
,
SPEAKING
,
WORK
.
MUCH (AS)
Notes:
(1) In Luke 6:34 the phrase
, lit., “the equivalent (things),” is translated
“as much” (of lending, to receive back the equivalent). (2) In Rom. 1:15, the phrase
, lit., “the (thing) according to me,” signifies “as much as in me is”; cf. the
KJV
marg. in 1 Pet. 5:2 [lit., “the (extent) in, or among, you”; the text takes the word “flock”
as understood, the marg. regards the phrase as adverbially idiomatic]; in Rom. 12:18 “as
much as in you lieth” translates a similar phrase, lit., “the (extent) out of you.” (3) In Heb.
12:20,
KJV
,
(contracted to
), “if even” (
RV
), is translated “and if so much as.”
(4) The negatives
$
and
, “not even” (
RV
) are translated “not so much as” in the
KJV
in Mark 2:2; Luke 6:3 and 1 Cor. 5:1; in the following the
RV
and
KJV
translate them
“not so much as,” Mark 3:20 (some mss. have
, with the same meaning); Acts 19:2;
in Mark 6:31 “no (leisure) so much as.” (5) In Rom. 3:12,
, “as far as, even unto,” is
translated “so much as” in the
RV
; the
KJV
supplies nothing actually corresponding to it.
(6) In John 6:11
denotes “as much as.”
MULTIPLY
1.
$
(
"
, 4129), used (a) transitively, denotes “to cause to increase, to
multiply,” 2 Cor. 9:10; Heb. 6:14 (twice); in the passive voice, “to be multiplied,” Matt.
24:12,
RV
, “(iniquity) shall be multiplied” (
KJV
, “shall abound”); Acts 6:7; 7:17; 9:31;
12:24; 1 Pet. 1:2; 2 Pet. 1:2; Jude 2; (b) intransitively it denotes “to be multiplying,” Acts
6:1,
RV
, “was multiplying” (
KJV
, “was multiplied”). See
ABUNDANCE
, B, No. 5.¶
2.
(
1
, 4121), used intransitively, “to abound,” is translated “being
multiplied” in the
RV
of 2 Cor. 4:15 (
KJV
, “abundant”); the active voice, aorist tense, here
would be more accurately rendered “having superabounded” or “superabounding” or
“multiplying.” See
ABUNDANCE
, B, No. 3.
MULTITUDE
1.
(
7
, 3793) is used frequently in the four Gospels and the Acts; elsewhere
only in Rev. 7:9; 17:15; 19:1, 6; it denotes (a) “a crowd or multitude of persons, a