περισσεύω

• περιττεύω (peritteúō) — Attic

From περισσός (perissós, “extraordinary”).

περισσεύω • (perisseúō)

1. to be over and above, to go beyond
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.8.11
2. to be more than enough, remain over
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 4.35
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Ways and Means 4.7
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 855B
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 619A.20
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 14:20
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.65
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 19.1.18
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.11
   1. (in a bad sense) to be superfluous
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1288
      • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Diogenes of Oenoanda, Oenoandan Inscription 64
3. (of persons) to abound in, to have more than enough of
   • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 18.35.5
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 16:5
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 15:17
   1. to be superior, to be better than, to have the advantage
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Ecclesiastes 3.19
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Maccabees 3.30
      • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 14:12
      • New Testament, First Epistle to the Thessalonians 4:1
      • New Testament, First Epistle to the Thessalonians 4:11
      • 53 CE – 55 CE, Paul the Apostle, First Epistle to the Corinthians 8:8
4. (causal) to make to abound
   • 55 CE – 56 CE, Paul the Apostle, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 9:8
   • New Testament, First Epistle to the Thessalonians 3:12
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 13:12
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 25:29
   1. (of time) to make longer
      • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 2.42B

• “περισσεύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “περισσεύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• περισσεύω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4052 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Inherited from Ancient Greek περισσεύω (perisseúō).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pe.ɾiˈse.vo/
• Hyphenation: πε‧ρισ‧σεύ‧ω

περισσεύω • (perissévo) (past περίσσεψα, passive —) (intransitive)

1. to be left over, to be to spare

   Δεν μου περισσεύει χρόνος. ― Den mou perissévei chrónos. ― I have no time to spare.

2. to be superfluous
3. to be more than enough, to be in surfeit