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Strong's #4121: pleonazo (pronounced pleh-on-ad'-zo)

from 4119; to do, make or be more, i.e. increase (transitively or intransitively); by extension, to superabound:--abound, abundant, make to increase, have over.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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pleonazō

1) to superabound

1a) of things

1a1) to exist in abundance

1a2) to increase

1a3) be augmented

2) to make to increase: one in a thing

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G4119

Citing in TDNT: 6:263, 864




Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

Romans 5:20: "that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded,"
Romans 5:20: "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:"
Romans 6:1: "in sin, that grace may abound?"
2 Corinthians 4:15: "are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the"
2 Corinthians 8:15: "it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little"
Philippians 4:17: "but I desire fruit that may abound to your account."
1 Thessalonians 3:12: "And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love"
2 Thessalonians 1:3: "all toward each other aboundeth;"
2 Peter 1:8: "be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor"









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