Strong's Concordance
huperpleonazó: to abound exceedingly
Original Word: ὑπερπλεονάζωPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: huperpleonazó
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-pleh-on-ad'-zo)
Short Definition: I am exceedingly abundant
Definition: I abound exceedingly, am exceedingly abundant.
HELPS Word-studies
5250 hyperpleonázō (from 5228 /hypér, "beyond" and 4121 /pleonázō, "many, being great in number") – properly, to make exceedingly plentiful (literally "very numerous, numerically abundant"), beyond counting (what can be numbered).
5250 /hyperpleonázō ("super-abounded beyond numbering") is only used in 1 Tim 1:14. Here Paul testifies of the Lord's grace, causing faith and love in his life to exceedingly increase (be very great in number). As a strengthened form of 5428 /phrónēsis ("more than"), 5250 /hyperpleonázō ("makes super-plentiful") very emphatically expresses the continuous way God will inbirth faith, through divine love, in the yielded believer to a frequency that exceeds all description and expectation!
[5250 (hyperpleonázō) means more than "make abundant," but rather "super, exceedingly abundant" (Souter).]
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5250: ὑπερπλεονάζωὑπερπλεονάζω: 1 aorist
ὑπερεπλεόνασα; (
Vulg.superabundo);
to be exceedingly abundant:
1 Timothy 1:14 (
τόν ὑπερπλεοναζοντα ἀέρα, Heron. spirit., p. 165, 40; several times also in ecclesiastical writings (
ὑπερπλεοναζει absolutely,
overflows, Hermas, mand. 5, 2, 5 [ET]);
to possess in excess, ἐάν ὑπερπλεονάσῃ ὁ ἄνθρωπος,
ἐξαμαρτάνει,
Ps. Sal.