poluv" poluv", pollhv (from an older form pollov", found in Homer, Hesiod, Pindar), poluv; ((cf. Curtius, sec. 375)); the Septuagint chiefly for br'; much; used a. of multitude, number, etc., many, numerous, great: ajriqmov", ; laov", ; o[clo", ; ; (8:1 L T Tr WH); ; ; ,; ; , etc.; plh'qo", f; ; , etc.; equivalent to abundant, plenteous (A. V. often much), karpov", ; ,; qerismov" (the harvest to be gathered), ; ; gh', ; ; covrto", ; oi\no", ; plural polloiv telw'nai, ; ; polloiv profh'tai, ; ; sofoiv, ; patevre", ; dunavmei", ; , etc.; o[cloi, ; ; (but here L T WH omit; Tr brackets o[cloi); , etc.; daimovnia, ; and in many other examples; with participles used substantively, ; , etc.; with the article prefixed: aiJ aJmartivai aujth'" aiJ pollaiv, her sins which are many, ; tav pollav gravmmata, the great learning with which I see that you are furnished, ; oJ poluv" o[clo", the great multitude of common people present, (cf. oJ o[clo" poluv", T Tr marginal reading WH; see o[clo", 1). Plural masculine polloiv, absolutely and without the article, many, a large part of mankind: polloiv simply, ,; ; ; ; ; ; ; ,; , and very often; opposed to ojlivgoi, (T WH omit; Tr brackets the clause); e{teroi polloiv, ; a[llai pollaiv, ; e{terai pollaiv, ; polloiv followed by a partitive genitive, as tw'n Farisaivwn, ; add, ; ; ; ; ; , etc.; followed by ejk with a genitive of class, as polloiv ejk tw'n maqhtw'n aujtou', ; add, ,; ; ,; ; polloiv ejk th'" povlew", <<ref:BHS/GNT_Joh 4:3