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|txtha=[[πολλή]] (from an [[older]] [[form]] [[πολλός]], [[found]] in [[Homer]], [[Hesiod]], [[Pindar]]), [[πολύ]]; (cf. [[Curtius]], § 375)); the Sept. [[chiefly]] for רַב; [[much]]; used a. of [[multitude]], [[number]], etc., [[many]], [[numerous]], [[great]]: [[ἀριθμός]], [[λαός]], [[ὄχλος]], L T Tr WH); [[πλῆθος]], [[abundant]], [[plenteous]] (A. V. [[often]] [[much]]), [[καρπός]], [[θερισμός]] (the [[harvest]] to be gathered), γῆ, [[χόρτος]], [[οἶνος]], πολλοί τελῶναι, πολλοί προφῆται, σοφοί, πατέρες, δυνάμεις, ὄχλοι, L T WH [[omit]]; Tr brackets ὄχλοι); δαιμόνια, αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αὐτῆς αἱ πολλαί, her sins [[which]] are [[many]], τά [[πολλά]] γράμματα, the [[great]] [[learning]] [[with]] [[which]] I [[see]] [[that]] [[you]] are furnished, ὁ [[πολύς]] [[ὄχλος]], the [[great]] [[multitude]] of [[common]] [[people]] [[present]], ὁ [[ὄχλος]] [[πολύς]], T Tr marginal [[reading]] WH; [[see]] [[ὄχλος]], 1). Plural [[masculine]] πολλοί, [[absolutely]] and [[without]] the [[article]], [[many]], a [[large]] [[part]] of [[mankind]]: πολλοί [[simply]], ὀλίγοι, T WH [[omit]]; Tr brackets the [[clause]]); ἕτεροι πολλοί, ἄλλαι πολλαί, ἕτεραι πολλαί, πολλοί followed by a partitive genitive, as [[τῶν]] Φαρισαίων, ἐκ [[with]] a genitive of class, as πολλοί ἐκ [[τῶν]] μαθητῶν [[αὐτοῦ]], πολλοί ἐκ τῆς πόλεως, οἱ πολλοί, the [[many]] (cf. Winer's Grammar, 110 (105)): those contrasted [[with]] ὁ [[εἷς]] (i. e. [[both]] [[with]] Adam and [[with]] Christ), according to the context equivalent to the [[rest]] of [[mankind]], the [[many]] i. e. the [[most]] [[part]], the [[majority]], [[much]] equivalent to [[great]], [[strong]], [[intense]], [[large]]: [[ἀγάπη]], [[ὀδύνη]], [[θρῆνος]], [[κλαυθμός]], [[ὀδυρμός]], [[χαρά]] ( st [[χάρις]]), [[ἐπιθυμία]], [[μακροθυμία]], [[ἔλεος]], [[γογγυσμός]], [[τρόμος]], [[πόνος]] ( [[ζῆλος]]), [[ἀγών]], [[ἄθλησις]], [[θλῖψις]], [[καύχησις]], [[πεποίθησις]], [[πληροφορία]], [[παρρησία]], [[παράκλησις]], [[συζήτησις]] (T WH Tr [[text]] [[ζήτησις]]), ); [[στάσις]], [[ἀσιτία]], [[βία]], ); [[διακονία]], [[σιγή]], [[deep]] [[silence]], [[Xenophon]], Cyril 7,1, 25); [[φαντασία]], [[δύναμις]] [[καί]] [[δόξα]], [[μισθός]], [[εἰρήνη]], [[περί]] οὗ [[πολύς]] [[ἡμῖν]] ὁ [[λόγος]], [[about]] [[which]] ([[but]] [[see]] [[λόγος]], I:3a.) we [[have]] [[much]] (in [[readiness]]) to [[say]], πολύν λόγον ποιεῖσθαι [[περί]] τίνος, [[Plato]], [[Phaedo]], p. 115{d}; cf. Lex. [[Plato]], iii., p. 148).<br /><b class="num">c.</b> of [[time]], [[much]], [[long]]: πολύν χρόνον, [[μετά]] χρόνον πολύν, [[ὥρα]] [[πολλή]], [[much]] [[time]] (i. e. a [[large]] [[part]] of the [[day]]) is spent ([[see]] [[ὥρα]], 2), ὥρας πολλῆς γενομένης (Tdf. γινομένης), of a [[late]] [[hour]] of the [[day]], ibid. (so πολλῆς ὥρας, [[Polybius]] 5,8, 3; [[ἐπί]] πολλήν ὥραν, Josephus, Antiquities 8,4, 4; Ἐμάχοντο ... [[ἄχρι]] πολλῆς ὥρας, [[Dionysius]] [[Halicarnassus]], 2,54); πολλοῖς χρόνοις, for a [[long]] [[time]], οὐ πολλῷ χρόνῳ, Herodian, 1,6, 24 (8 edition, Bekker); χρόνοις πολλοῖς [[ὕστερον]], [[Plutarch]], Thes. 6; ([[see]] [[χρόνος]], [[under]] the [[end]])); [[εἰς]] ἔτη [[πολλά]], ἐκ or) [[ἀπό]] πολλῶν ἐτῶν, WH Tr [[text]] [[ἀπό]] ἱκανῶν ἐτῶν); [[ἐπί]] [[πολύ]], (for) a [[long]] [[time]], μετ' οὐ [[πολύ]], [[not]] [[long]] [[after]] ([[see]] [[μετά]], II:2b.), [[πολύ]], [[much]], substantively, equivalent to [[many]] things: [[much]], adverbially, of the [[mode]] and [[degree]] of an [[action]]: ἠγάπησε, πλανᾶσθε, ὠφελεῖ, [[πολλοῦ]] as a genitive of [[price]] (from [[Homer]] [[down]]; cf. Passow, [[under]] the [[word]], IV.<br /><b class="num">b.</b> vol. ii., p. 1013 a; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 206 (194))): πραθῆναι, for [[much]], ἐν πολλῷ, in (administering) [[much]] (i. e. [[many]] things), L T Tr WH ἐν μεγάλῳ ([[see]] [[μέγας]], 1a. γ.)). [[with]] a comparitive (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 35,1): [[πολύ]] [[σπουδαιότερον]], [[Homer]] [[down]]); πολλῷ [[πλείους]], [[many]] [[more]], πολλῷ (or [[πολύ]]) [[μᾶλλον]], [[see]] [[μᾶλλον]], 1a. [[following]] [[with]] the [[article]], τό [[πολύ]], German das Viele (opposed to τό [[ὀλίγον]]), Buttmann, 395 (338); Winer's Grammar, 589 (548)). Plural, [[πολλά]] α. [[many]] things; as, διδάσκειν, λαλεῖν, [[παθεῖν]], [[Pindar]] Ol. 13,90 [[down]]; ποιεῖν, T Tr marginal [[reading]] WH ἀπόρειν); [[πρᾶξαι]], [[πολλά]] [[καί]] [[ἀλλά]], [[καί]] ([[which]] [[see]], I:3), [[see]] Kühner, § 523,1 (or on [[Xenophon]], mem. 1,2, 24); Bäumlein, Partikeln, p. 146; Krüger, § 69,32, 3; Lob. Paral., p. 60; Herm. ad Vig., p. 835; Winer s Grammar, § 59,3at the [[end]]; Buttmann, 362 f (311). Cf. Passow, [[under]] the [[word]], I:3a.; Liddell and Scott, [[under]] II:2.) β. adverbially (cf. Winer s Grammar, 463 (432); Buttmann, § 128,2), [[much]]: Mark ( T Tr marginal [[reading]] (?) WH ([[see]] [[ἀπορέω]])); L brackets the [[clause]]); in [[many]] ways, [[with]] [[many]] words (R. V. [[much]]), [[with]] verbs of [[saying]]; as, κηρύσσειν, παρακαλεῖν, etc., [[many]] times, [[often]], [[repeatedly]]: R G Tr WH marginal [[reading]]) (and [[often]] in Greek writings from [[Homer]] [[down]]; cf. Passow, [[under]] the [[word]], V:1a. vol. ii., p. 1013{b}; (Liddell and Scott, III. a.); Stallbaum on [[Plato]], [[Phaedo]], p. 61c.); [[with]] the [[article]] [[πολλά]], for the [[most]] [[part]] (R. V. these [[many]] times) (Vulg. plurimum), L Tr marginal [[reading]] [[πολλάκις]]) (examples from Greek writings are given by Passow, the [[passage]] cited (Liddell and Scott, the [[passage]] cited), and by Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans , iii., p. 281).

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