περισσός

περισσός, -ή, -όν

[in LXX for יֶתֶר and cogn. forms ;]

1. more than sufficient, over and above, abundant: Joh 10,10, 2 Kor 9,1; with genitive (a popular substitute for πλειών, Bl., § 11, 3.4), Matt 5,37 id. with ellips. genitive, Matt 5,47 (EV, more than others; but see infr.); εκ περισσοῦ, Mark 6,51, Rec., T. (on ὑπὲρ ὲκ π., see: ὑπερεκπερισσοῦ). Compar. neut., -ότερον: Luk 12,4, 48; with genitive, Mark 12,33 adverbially (cf. περισσῶς), more abund­antly, 2 Kor 10,8, Hebr 6,17; 7,15; with genitive, π. πάντων, 1 Kor 15,10 pleonast., μᾶλλον π., Mark 7,36,

2. out of the common, pre-eminent, superior: Matt 5,47 (Thayer, see word, but see supr.); τὸ π., as subst., Rom 3,1 compar., -ότερος, with genitive, Matt 11,9, Luk 7,26; with subst., Mark 12,40, Luk 20,47, 1 Kor 12,23-24, 2 Kor 2,7.†