περισσεύω perisseuō

Greek word for “to exceed” · Strong’s G4052 · used 39 times in 35 verses

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Meaning

περισσεύω; (περισσός);

How it is translated

Glosses given for perisseuō in context, with how often each is used:

• abound 6
• abounding 5
• may abound 5
• remaindering 2
• abounded 2
• abounds 2
• shall abound 1
• will be abundant to 1
• will have in abundance 1
• having been a surplus 1
• have abundance 1
• having been over and above 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

John 6 (2), 2 Corinthians 8 (2), 2 Corinthians 9 (2), Philippians 1 (2), Philippians 4 (2), 1 Thessalonians 4 (2), Matthew 5 (1), Matthew 13 (1), Matthew 14 (1), Matthew 15 (1)

Forms

• περισσεύειν 5
• ἐπερίσσευσεν 4
• περισσεύητε 4
• περισσεύει 3
• περισσεύσῃ 2
• περισσευθήσεται 2
• περισσεῦον 2
• περισσεύοντος 2
• περισσεύοντες 2
• περισσεύῃ 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with perisseuō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• κλάσμα klasma “fragment” 5
• χορτάζω chortazō “to feed” 4
• μᾶλλον mallon “more” 5
• αἴρω airō “to take up” 5
• κόφινος kophinos “basket” 3
• εὐχαριστία eucharistia “thankfulness” 3
• φαγεῖν phagein “to eat” 4
• χάρις charis “grace” 4
• δώδεκα dōdeka “twelve” 3
• ὑστέρημα husterēma “deficiency” 2
• πλεονάζω pleonazō “to increase” 2
• βίος bios “life” 2

Key verses

The verses using perisseuō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 12:15 — And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
• Luke 15:17 — And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
• Romans 5:15 — But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is…
• Romans 15:13 — Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
• 1 Corinthians 15:58 — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in…
• 2 Corinthians 4:15 — For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
• 2 Corinthians 8:2 — How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
• 2 Corinthians 9:8 — And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
• Philippians 1:9 — And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• Philippians 4:18 — But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable,…
• Colossians 2:7 — Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:1 — Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.