perisseuvw perisseuvw; imperfect ejperivsseuon (); future infinitive perisseuvsein ( Rec.^bez); 1 aorist ejperivsseusa; passive, present perisseuvomai (, see below); 1 future 3 person singular perisseuqhvsetai; (perissov", which see);1. intransitive and properly, to exceed a fixed number or measure; to be over and above a certain number or measure: muvrioi eijsin ajriqmovn ... ei|" dev perisseuvei, Hesiod from 14, 4 (clxix. (187), edition G?ttling); hence, a. to be over, to remain:John ; tov perisseu'on tw'n klasmavtwn, equivalent to tav perisseuonta klavsmata, ; ; perisseuvei moi tiv, (); tov perisseu'san tivni, what remained over to one, . b. to exist or be at hand in abundance: tivni, ; tov perisseu'on tivni, one's abundance, wealth ((R. V. superfluity); opposed to uJstevrhsi"), ; opposed to uJstevrhma, : to be great (abundant), b; ; ; perisseuvei tiv eij" tina, "a thing comes in abundance, or overflows, unto one; something falls to the lot of one in large measure": ; a; perisseuvw eij" tiv, to redound unto, turn out abundantly for, a thing, ; hJ ajlhvqeia tou' Qeou' ejn tw'/ ejmw'/ yeuvsmati ejperivsseusen eij" thvn dovxan aujtou', i. e. by my lie it came to pass that God's veracity became the more conspicuous, and becoming thus more thoroughly known increased his glory, ; to be increased, tw'/ ajriqmw'/, . c. to abound, overflow, i. e. a. to be abundantly furnished with, to have in abundance, abound in (a thing): absolutely (A. V. to abound), to be in affluence, ; opposed to uJsterei'sqai; ; in spiritual gifts, ; with a genitive of the thing in which one abounds (Winer's Grammar, sec. 30, 8b.; (cf. Buttmann, sec. 132, 12)): a[rtwn, R G L T Tr marginal reading b. to be pre-eminent, to excel (cf. Buttmann, sec. 132, 22): absolutely, ; followed by ejn with a dative of the virtues or the actions in which one excels (Buttmann, sec. 132, 12), ; ; (here L T Tr WH omit ejn); ; ; perisseuvhte ma'llon, to excel still more, to increase in excellence, ,; ma'llon kaiv ma'llon perisseuvh/, ; perisseuvsh/ ... plei'on, to excel more than (A. V. exceed; cf. Buttmann, sec. 132, 20 and 22), , (perisseuvein uJpevr tina, ; tiv ejperivsseusen oJ a[nqrwpo" parav tov kth'no"; ).2. by later Greek usage transitively (cf. Winer's Grammar, p. 23; sec. 38,1), to make to abound, i. e. a. to furnish one richly so that he has abundance: passive, ; ; with the genitive of