λίαν
greatly
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G3029 appears in the Book of 2 Corinthians — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Corinthians
- 2 Corinthians 11:5 ὑπερλίαν adv For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
- 2 Corinthians 12:11 ὑπερλίαν adv I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
λιαν (lían) is a Greek verb most often rendered “greatly.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 2:16. It turns up in 14 verses across 7 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 29% of its uses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3029 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #814
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 814 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 4 verses 29%
- Mark 4 verses 29%
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 14%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 64%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 21%
- Johannine 2 verses · 14%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 14%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Greatly 4×, Exceeding 3×
- American Standard Version: Exceeding 5×, Greatly 4×, Chiefest 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Very 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Very 6×, Greatly 3×, Very much 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3029 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3029 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3029 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3029 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- greatly, exceedingly, exceedingly beyond measure
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; much (adverb): - exceeding great (-ly) sore very (+ chiefest).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3029 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λίαν lían | Adverb | Matthew 2:16 | 12 |
| ὑπερλίαν hyperlían | Adverb | 2 Corinthians 11:5 | 2 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λιαν appears 13 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 7 books.
- 13
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:31 λίαν
- 1 Samuel 11:15 λίαν
- 2 Samuel 2:17 λίαν
- Job 29:5 λίαν
- Psalms 138:17 λίαν
- Jeremiah 24:3 λίαν
- Daniel 11:25 λίαν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3029) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:31 λίαν God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- Genesis 4:5 λίαν but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
- 1 Samuel 11:15 λίαν All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices of peace-offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
- 2 Samuel 2:17 λίαν The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
- Job 29:5 λίαν When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;
- Job 31:31 λίαν If the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
- Psalms 138:17 λίαν
- Jeremiah 24:3 λίαν Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.
- Jeremiah 30:25 λίαν
- Jeremiah 31:29 λίαν In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
- Daniel 11:25 λίαν He shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall war in battle with an exceeding great and mighty army; but he shall not stand; for they shall devise devices against him.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3029) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
