pleivwn pleivwn, pleivono", oJ, hJ, neuter plei'on (eighteen times) and (in ; ( L T Tr WH); ) plevon (cf. (WH's Appendix, p. 151); Matthiae, i., p. 333; Kr?ger, sec. 23, 7, 4; K?hner, sec. 156, 3; Passow, under the word poluv", B. 1; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, B.)), plural pleivone" and contracted pleivou", accusative pleivona" and contracted pleivou" (which forms are used indiscriminately in the N. T.), neuter pleivona and (L T Tr WH in ; L T in ) contracted pleivw; (comparitive of poluv"); more, i. e.1. greater in quantity: the object with which the comparison is made being added in the genitive, as pleivona" tw'n prwvtwn, more in number than the first, ; plei'on (or pleivw) pavntwn, more than all, ; ; pleivona ... touvtwn, more than these, (here L T Tr WH omit the genitive (see below)); pleivona tw'n prwvtwn, more than the first, ; plei'on touvtwn, more than these, ; (pleivona timhvn e[cein tou' oi[kou, b (cf. Winer's Grammar, 190 (178), 240 (225))); perisseuvein plei'on, more than, followed by a genitive (A. V. exceed), . pleivone" (pleivou") h[, R G (L pleivw (br. h[)); (Tr marginal reading omits; WH brackets h[). plei'on h[, more than, ; plevon plhvn with a genitive ; plevon parav (tiv or tina (see parav, III. 2 b.)), ; (a); h[ is omitted before numerals without change of construction: ejtw'n h\n pleiovnwn tessaravkonta oJ a[nqrwpo", ; ouj pleivou" eijsin moi hJmevrai dekaduvo, (here Rec. inserts h[); hJmevra" ouj pleivou" ojktwv h[ devka (Rec. pleivou" h[ devka), ; add, ,; as in Greek writings after a neuter: pleivw (Lachmann h[ in brackets) dwvdeka legew'na", (T Tr WH (but T legiwnwn)) (plei'n -- Attic for plei'on -- eJxakosivou", Aristophanes av. 1251; e[th gegonwv" pleivw eJbdomhvkonta, Plato, Apology Socrates, p. 17 d.; see h[, 3 a.; on the omission of quam in Latin after plus and amplius, cf. Ramshorn, Latin Gram., p. 491; (Roby, Latin Gram. sec. 1273)). the objects with which the comparison is made are not added because easily supplied from the context: ; ( (see above)); ; ; tov plei'on, the more (viz., the greater debt mentioned), ; plei'on, adverbially, more, i. e. more earnestly, ; ejpiv plei'on, more widely, further, dianevmesqai, ; (cf. WH marginal reading (see below)); prokovptein, ; ejpiv plei'on ajsebeiva", ; ejpiv plei'on, longer (than proper), (not WH marginal reading (see above)); ; plural pleivona, more, i. e. a larger reward, (but L