περισσεία
abundance
also: superabundantly, superfluously fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G4050 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of 2 Corinthians. Filtered view — show all forms. 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
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.
περισσεια (perisseía) is a Greek noun most often rendered “abundance.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. It clusters heavily in 2 Corinthians, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. Debuting at Romans 5:17, it then recurs through the corpus. The lexical range runs to 4 senses — “abundance” plus “superabundantly” and “superfluously”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4050 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 50%
- Romans 1 verse 25%
- James 1 verse 25%
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 4 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 75%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 25%
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: Abundance 2×
- American Standard Version: Abundance 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Abundance 1×, Abundant 1×, Every expression 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Abundance 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4050 across 3 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4050 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 G4050 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4050 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 4 senses 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.
- abundance, superabundantly, superfluously
- superiority, preference, pre-eminence
- gain, profit
- residue…
Word origin
Derived from περισσευω (perisseúō) (G4052) — to abound.
From G4052 ; surplusage that is superabundance : - abundance (-ant [-ly]) superfluity.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4050 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| περισσείαν perisseían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 5:17 | 3 |
| περισσεία perisseía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 8:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4050, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word περισσεια appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 1 book.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 περισσεία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4050) 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.
- Ecclesiastes 1:3 περισσεία What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 περισσεία Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:13 περισσεία Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
- Ecclesiastes 3:9 περισσεία What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
- Ecclesiastes 5:8 περισσεία If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
- Ecclesiastes 5:15 περισσεία As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
- Ecclesiastes 6:8 περισσεία For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?
- Ecclesiastes 7:11 περισσεία Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 περισσεία For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
- Ecclesiastes 10:10 περισσεία If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
- Ecclesiastes 10:11 περισσεία If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4050) 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.
