is used (a) of external from, size, measure, e.g., of a stone, Mat 27:60<\/span>; fish, Joh 21:11<\/span>; (b) of degree and intensity, e.g., of fear, Mar 4:41<\/span>; wind, Joh 6:18<\/span>; Rev 6:13<\/span>, RV, “great” (AV, “mighty”); of a circumstance, 1Co 9:11<\/span>; 2Co 11:15<\/span>; in Rev 5:2<\/span>,12, the RV has “great” (AV, “loud”), of a voice; (c) of rank, whether of persons, e.g., God, Tit 2:13<\/span>; Christ as a “great Priest,” Heb 10:21<\/span>, RV; Diana, Act 19:27<\/span>; Simon Magus, Act 8:9<\/span> “(some) great one;” in the plural, “great ones,” Mat 20:25<\/span>; Mar 10:42<\/span>, those who hold positions of authority in gentile nations; or of things, e.g., a mystery, Eph 5:32<\/span>. Some mss. have it in Act 8:8<\/span>, of joy (see No. 2). See also Note (2) below. See GREATEST, HIGH, LOUD, MIGHTY, STRONG. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “much, many, great,” is used of number, e.g., Luk 5:6<\/span>; Act 11:21<\/span>; degree, e.g., of harvest, Mat 9:37<\/span> [See Note (8)]; mercy, 1Pe 1:3<\/span>, RV, “great” (AV, “abundant”); glory, Mat 24:30<\/span>; joy, Phm 1:7<\/span>, RV, “much” (AV, “great”); peace, Act 24:2<\/span>. The best mss. have it in Act 8:8<\/span> (RV, “much”), of joy. See ABUNDANT, COMMON, Note (1), LONG, MANY, MUCH, OFT, SORE, STRAITLY. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n lit., “reaching to” (from hikano, “to reach”), denotes “sufficient, competent, fit,” and is sometimes rendered “great,” e.g., of number (of people), Mar 10:46<\/span>; of degree (of light), Act 22:6<\/span>. See ABLE, ENOUGH, GOOD, LARGE, LONG, MANY, MEET, MUCH, SECURITY, SUFFICIENT, WORTHY. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n primarily denotes “as big as, as old as (akin to helikia, “an age”); then, as an indirect interrogation, “what, what size, how great, how small” (the context determines the meaning), said of a spiritual conflit, Col 2:1<\/span>, AV, “what great (conflict) I have;” RV, “how greatly (I strive);” of much wood as kindled by a little fire, Jam 3:5<\/span> (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<\/span>; the most authentic have No. 5. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n 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<\/span>, of letter characters (see No. 4, Note); in Heb 7:4<\/span>, metaphorically, of the distinguished character of Melchizedek. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n an adjective of number, magnitude, degree etc., is rendered “how great” in Mat 6:23<\/span>. See MANY, MUCH. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “how much, how many,” is used in the neuter plural to signify how great things, Mar 5:19<\/span>,20; Luk 8:39<\/span> (twice); Act 9:16<\/span>, AV (RV, “how many things”); in Rev 21:16<\/span> (in the best mss.), “as great as,” RV (AV, “as large as,” said of length). See ALL, MANY, No. 5, WHATSOEVER. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “so great, so many, so much,” of quantity, size, etc., is rendered “so great,” in Mat 8:10<\/span>; Luk 7:9<\/span>, of faith; Mat 15:33<\/span>, of a multitude; Heb 12:1<\/span>, of a cloud of witnesses; Rev 18:17<\/span>, of riches. See LARGE, LONG, MANY, MUCH. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “so great,” is used in the NT of things only, a death, 2Co 1:10<\/span>; salvation, Heb 2:3<\/span>; ships, Jam 3:4<\/span>; an earthquake, Rev 16:18<\/span>, AV, “so mighty,” corrected in the RV to “so great.” See MIGHTY. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) In Mar 7:36<\/span>, “so much the more a great deal” translates a phrase lit. signifying “more abundantly;” in Mar 10:48<\/span>, “the more a great deal” translates a phrase lit. signifying “more by much.” (2) For the noun megistan, in the plural, rendered “Lords” in the AV of Mar 6:21<\/span>, see Lord; in Rev 6:15<\/span>; Rev 18:23<\/span>, see PRINCE. (3) In Luk 1:58<\/span>, the verb megaluno, “to magnify, make great” (akin to No. 1), is rendered “had magnified (His mercy),” RV [AV, “had shewed great (mercy)”]. (4) In Luk 10:13<\/span>, the adverb palai, “of old, long ago,” is so rendered in the RV (AV, “a great while ago”). (5) In 2Pe 1:4<\/span>, megistos, the superlative of megas (No. 1), said of the promises of God, is rendered “exceeding great.” (6) In Mat 21:8<\/span>, pleistos, the superlative of polus (No. 2), said of a multitude, is rendered “very great” in the AV (RV, “the most part”). (7) In Rev 21:10<\/span>, the most authentic mss. omit “that great” [RV, “the holy (city)”]. (8) In Luk 10:2<\/span>, the RV renders polus by “plenteous” (AV, “great”). (9) In Mar 1:35<\/span>, the adverb lian, exceedingly (see GREATLY), is rendered “a great while.” See DAY, B. (10) In Luk 1:49<\/span> some texts have megaleia, “great things;” the best have No. 1. <\/p>\n Great is used (a) of external from, size, measure, e.g., of a stone, Mat 27:60; fish, Joh 21:11; (b) of degree and intensity, e.g., of fear, Mar 4:41; wind, Joh 6:18; Rev 6:13, RV, “great” (AV, “mighty”); of a circumstance, 1Co 9:11; 2Co 11:15; in Rev 5:2,12, the RV has “great” (AV, “loud”), of a … Continue reading “Great”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"