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people), Mark 10:46; of degree (of light), Acts 22:6. See
ABLE
,
ENOUGH
,
GOOD
,
LARGE
,
LONG
,
MANY
,
MEET
,
MUCH
,
SECURITY
,
SUFFICIENT WORTHY
.
4.
(
4 &
, 2245) primarily denotes “as big as, as old as” (akin to
, “an
age”); then, as an indirect interrogation, “what, what size, how great, how small” (the
context determines the meaning), said of a spiritual conflict, Col. 2:1,
KJV
, “what great
(conflict) I have”;
RV
, “how greatly (I strive)”; of much wood as kindled by a little fire,
Jas. 3:5 (twice in the best mss.), “how much (wood is kindled by) how small (a fire),”
RV
,
said metaphorically of the use of the tongue. Some mss. have No. 4 in Gal. 6:11; the most
authentic have No. 5.¶
5.
(
&
, 4080), primarily a direct interrogative, “how large? how great?”
is used in exclamations, indicating magnitude, like No. 4 (No. 6 indicates quantity), in
Gal. 6:11, of letter characters (see No. 4,
Note
); in Heb. 7:4, metaphorically, of the
distinguished character of Melchizedek.¶
6.
(
, 4214), an adjective of number, magnitude, degree etc., is rendered
“how great” in Matt. 6:23. See
MANY
,
MUCH
.
7.
(
6
, 3745), “how much, how many,” is used in the neuter plural to signify
how great things, Mark 5:19, 20; Luke 8:39 (twice); Acts 9:16,
KJV
(
RV
, “how many
things”); in Rev. 21:16 (in the best mss.), “as great as,”
RV
(
KJV
, “as large as,” said of
length). See
ALL
,
MANY
, No. 5,
WHATSOEVER
.
8.
$
(
, 5118), “so great, so many, so much,” of quantity, size, etc., is
rendered “so great,” in Matt. 8:10, and Luke 7:9, of faith; Matt. 15:33, of a multitude;
Heb. 12:1, of a cloud of witnesses; Rev. 18:17, of riches. See
LARGE
,
LONG
,
MANY
,
MUCH
.
9.
$
(
, 5082), “so great,” is used in the NT of things only, a death,
2 Cor. 1:10; salvation, Heb. 2:3; ships, Jas. 3:4; an earthquake, Rev. 16:18,
KJV
, “so
mighty,” corrected in the
RV
to “so great.” See
MIGHTY
.¶
Notes:
(1) In Mark 7:36, “so much the more a great deal” translates a phrase lit.
signifying “more abundantly”; in 10:48 “the more a great deal” translates a phrase lit.
signifying “more by much.” (2) For the noun
, in the plural, rendered “Lords” in
the
KJV
of Mark 6:21, see
LORD
; in Rev. 6:15 and 18:23, see
PRINCE
. (3) In Luke 1:58, the
verb
$
, “to magnify, make great” (akin to No. 1), is rendered “had magnified
(His mercy),”
RV
[
KJV
, “had shewed great (mercy)”]. (4) In Luke 10:13, the adverb
,
“of old, long ago,” is so rendered in the
RV
(
KJV
, “a great while ago”). (5) In 2 Pet. 1:4,
, the superlative of
(No. 1), said of the promises of God, is rendered
“exceeding great.”¶ (6) In Matt. 21:8,
, the superlative of
$
(No. 2), said of a
multitude, is rendered “very great” in the
KJV
(
RV
, “the most part”). (7) In Rev. 21:10, the
most authentic mss. omit “that great” [
RV
, “the holy (city)”]. (8) In Luke 10:2, the
RV
renders
$
by “plenteous” (
KJV
, “great”). (9) In Mark 1:35, the adverb
,
exceedingly (see
GREATLY
), is rendered “a great while.” See
DAY
, B. (10) In Luke 1:49
some texts have
, “great things”; the best have No. 1.
GREATER