μᾶλλον
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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 G3123 appears in the Book of 1 Corinthians — 9 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.
1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians 5:2 μᾶλλον adv You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
- 1 Corinthians 6:7 μᾶλλον μᾶλλον adv adv Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
- 1 Corinthians 7:21 μᾶλλον adv Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
- 1 Corinthians 9:12 μᾶλλον adv If others partake of this right over you, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 9:15 μᾶλλον adv But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
- 1 Corinthians 12:22 μᾶλλον adv No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
- 1 Corinthians 14:1 μᾶλλον adv Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
- 1 Corinthians 14:5 μᾶλλον adv Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.
- 1 Corinthians 14:18 μᾶλλον adv I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
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.
μαλλον (mâllon) is a Greek verb most often rendered “more.” It first appears in Matthew 6:26. The Greek New Testament uses it across 79 verses — moderately common. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3123 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 →
- 79
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 79 distinct verses.
- 17 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 17 of 27 New Testament books.
- #210
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 210 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 79 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 9 verses 11%
- 1 Corinthians 9 verses 11%
- Romans 8 verses 10%
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 79 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 42 verses · 53%
- Gospels 23 verses · 29%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 12 verses · 15%
- Hebrews 6 verses · 8%
- Johannine 4 verses · 5%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 1%
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: More 37×, Rather 32×, More and more 2×
- American Standard Version: Rather 32×, More 31×, Much the more 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: More 23×, Rather 13×, All the more 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: More 44×, Rather 17×, Instead 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3123 across 81 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3123 across 78 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 G3123 across 64 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 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 15 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3123 across 86 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear 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.
- more, to a greater degree, rather
Word origin
Derived from μαλιστα (málista) (G3122) — especially.
Neuter of the comparative of the same as G3122 ; (adverb) more ( in a greater degree ) or rather : - + better X far (the) more (and more) (so) much (the more) rather.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μαλλον appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 22 verses in 8 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 22
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:9 μᾶλλον
- Numbers 13:31 μᾶλλον
- Deuteronomy 9:1 μᾶλλον
- Job 20:2 μᾶλλον
- Psalms 83:11 μᾶλλον
- Proverbs 5:4 μᾶλλον
- Isaiah 13:12 μᾶλλον
- Jonah 1:11 μᾶλλον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3123) 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 19:9 μᾶλλον They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
- Genesis 29:30 μᾶλλον He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Numbers 13:31 μᾶλλον But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
- Numbers 14:12 μᾶλλον I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
- Deuteronomy 9:1 μᾶλλον Hear, Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
- Deuteronomy 9:14 μᾶλλον let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
- Deuteronomy 11:23 μᾶλλον then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- Job 20:2 μᾶλλον "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.
- Job 30:26 μᾶλλον When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Psalms 83:11 μᾶλλον Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
- Proverbs 5:4 μᾶλλον But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, And as sharp as a two-edged sword.
- Proverbs 15:18 μᾶλλον A wrathful man stirs up contention, But one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
- Proverbs 16:3 μᾶλλον Commit your deeds to Yahweh, And your plans shall succeed.
- Proverbs 18:2 μᾶλλον A fool has no delight in understanding, But only in revealing his own opinion.
- Proverbs 21:3 μᾶλλον To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
- Proverbs 26:12 μᾶλλον Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Proverbs 28:23 μᾶλλον One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor Than one who flatters with the tongue.
- Proverbs 29:20 μᾶλλον Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Isaiah 13:12 μᾶλλον I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 54:1 μᾶλλον Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says Yahweh.
- Jonah 1:11 μᾶλλον Then said they to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
- Jonah 1:13 μᾶλλον Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3123) 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.
