Dictionaries :: Much

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Much:

is used

(a) as an adjective of degree, e.g., Mat 13:5, "much (earth);" Act 26:24, "much (learning);" in Act 26:29, in the answer to Agrippa's "with but little persuasion," some texts have pollo (some megalo, "with great"), RV, "(whether with little or) with much;" of number, e.g., Mar 5:24, RV, "a great (multitude)," AV, "much (people);" so Luk 7:11; Jhn 12:12; Rev 19:1, etc.;

(b) in the neuter singular form (polu), as a noun, e.g., Luk 16:10 (twice); in the plural (polla), e.g., Rom 16:6, 12, "(labored) much," lit., "many things;"

(c) adverbially, in the neuter singular, e.g., Act 18:27; Jam 5:16; Mat 26:9 (a genitive of price); in the plural, e.g., Mar 5:43, RV, "much" (AV, "sore"); Jhn 14:30; and with the article, Act 26:24; Rom 15:22; 1Cr 16:19; Rev 5:4.
See GREAT.

Much:

"enough, much, many," is translated "much," e.g., in Luk 7:12 (in some mss. Act 5:37; see the RV); Act 11:24, 26; 19:26; 27:9.
See ABLE, ENOUGH, A, No. 2, GREAT, LARGE, MANY, MEET, SECURITY, SORE, SUFFICIENT, WORTHY.

Notes:

(1) For "much more," "so much the more," see MORE.

(2) In Jhn 12:9, the RV has "the common people" for "much people."

(3) In Act 27:16, AV, ischuo, "to be able," with molis, "scarcely," is translated "had much work" (RV, "were able, with difficulty").

(4) In Luk 19:15, AV, the pronoun ti, "what" (RV), is translated "how much."

(5) The adjective tosoutos, "so great, so much," is translated "so much (bread)," in Mat 15:33, plural, RV, "so many (loaves);" in the genitive case, of price, in Act 5:8, "for so much;" in the dative case, of degree, in Hbr 1:4, RV, "by so much" (AV, "so much"); so in Hbr 10:25; in Hbr 7:22 "by so much" translates the phrase kata tosouto; in Rev 18:7, "so much."

(6) See DISPLEASED, EXHORTATION, PERPLEX, SPEAKING, WORK.