Acts 23:13:3Acts.23.13.W3TAB

πλείους

pleious

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Transliteration
PLEI-ous
Extended
PLEI-oo(s)
IPA
/ˈpleː.i.us/

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Result
πλεί + ους
plei + ous
pleious

Alphabet Analysis

Pip — as in pet
Lambdal — as in law
Epsilone — as in met (short)
Iotai — as in machine
Omicrono — as in omit (short)
Upsiloni — as in machine
Sigma (final)s — used only at end of words

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Word in context

  1. word

    PLEI-ous

  2. sentence

    Ê-san de PLEI-ous tes-se-RA-kon-ta hoi TAU-tên tên sy-nô-mo-SI-an poi-ê-SA-me-noi

Exegesis

The phrase pleious tesserakonta {πλείους τεσσεράκοντα | pleí-ous tes-se-rá-kon-ta} functions as a quantified subject complement, with pleious as a comparative adjective meaning 'more' and tesserakonta as the cardinal 'forty', together yielding the idiom 'more than forty'.

In contextActs 23:13

But there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy .

About this coordinate

Acts 23:13:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Acts 23:13, so the Greek word πλείους (pleious) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.23.13.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.23.13.W3.S1) and character.