Strong's #4053: perissos (pronounced per-is-sos')
from 4012 (in the sense of beyond); superabundant (in quantity) or superior (in quality); by implication, excessive; adverbially (with 1537) violently; neuter (as noun) preeminence:--exceeding abundantly above, more abundantly, advantage, exceedingly, very highly, beyond measure, more, superfluous, vehement(-ly).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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perissos
1) exceeding some number or measure or rank or need
1a) over and above, more than is necessary, superadded
1a1) exceeding abundantly, supremely
1a2) something further, more, much more than all, more plainly
1b) superior, extraordinary, surpassing, uncommon
1b1) pre-eminence, superiority, advantage, more eminent, more remarkable, more excellent
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from G4012 (in the sense of beyond)
Citing in TDNT: 6:61, 828
Usage:
This word is used 10 times:
Matthew 5:37: "Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."
Matthew 5:47: "only, what do ye more than others? do not even the"
Mark 6:51: "in themselves beyond measure, and wondered."
Mark 14:31: "he spake the more vehemently, If I should"
John 10:10: "life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
Romans 3:1: "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit"
2 Corinthians 9:1: "the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:"
Ephesians 3:20: "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all"
1 Thessalonians 3:10: "and day praying exceedingly that we might see your"
1 Thessalonians 5:13: "And to esteem them very highly in love"