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Meaning

Usually translated “more”, “rather” and “much”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

more 40
rather 34
much 1
instead 1
still more 1
all the more 1
even more 1
especially 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Matthew 9
1 Corinthians 9
Romans 8
2 Corinthians 8
Acts 7
Mark 6

17 books in all.

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1 Timothy 6:2In contextAnd they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
Philemon 1:9In contextYet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Philemon 1:16In contextNot now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
2 Peter 1:10In contextWherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Matthew 6:26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew 6:30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

All 81 verses, by book

Matthew 9: 6:26 6:30 7:11 10:6 10:25 10:28 18:13 25:9 27:24
Mark 6: 5:26 7:36 9:42 10:48 14:31 15:11
Luke 6: 5:15 10:20 11:13 12:24 12:28 18:39
John 4: 3:19 5:18 12:43 19:8
Acts 7: 4:19 5:14 5:29 9:22 20:35 22:2 27:11
Romans 8: 5:9 5:10 5:15 5:17 8:34 11:12 11:24 14:13
1 Corinthians 9: 5:2 6:7 7:21 9:12 9:15 12:22 14:1 14:5 14:18
2 Corinthians 8: 2:7 3:8 3:9 3:11 5:8 7:7 7:13 12:9
Galatians 2: 4:9 4:27
Ephesians 3: 4:28 5:4 5:11
Philippians 5: 1:9 1:12 1:23 2:12 3:4
1 Thessalonians 2: 4:1 4:10
1 Timothy 2: 1:4 6:2
2 Timothy 1: 3:4
Philemon 2: 1:9 1:16
Hebrews 6: 9:14 10:25 11:25 12:9 12:13 12:25
2 Peter 1: 1:10

Greek dictionary

μᾶλλον mallon · more

μάλα adv., [in LXX for אֲבָל, 3Ki.1:43, Dan LXX 10:21, al.; compar. for מ, Num.13:32 (31), al.; μᾶλλον ἠ (מ), Gen.19:9, al.; superlat., 2Ma.8:7, 4Ma.4:22 12:9 15:4 ;] I. Pos., very, very much, exceedingly (cl.; LXX ut supr.; in NT its place is taken by λίαν, σφόδρα, etc.). II. Compar., μᾶλλον. 1. Of increase, more; with qualifying words: πολλῷ, Mrk.10:48, Luk.18:39, Rom.5:15, 17, Php.2:12, al.; πόσῳ, Luk.12:24, Rom.11:12, al.; τοσούτῳ . . . ὅσῳ, Heb.10:25. …

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “more” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MORE, adjective

[Latin magis; mare for mager; but this is conjecture.]

Greater in quality, degree or amount; in a general sense; as more land; more water; more courage; more virtue; more power or wisdom; more love; more praise; more light.
Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; as more men; more virtues; more years.“The children of Israel are more than we” Exodus 1:9
Greater.“The more part knew not why they had come together” Acts 19:32
Added to some former number; additional.

All definitions and other forms of “more”

MORE, adverb

To a greater degree.

“Israel loved Joseph more than all his children” Genesis 37:3
It is used with the.“They hated him yet the more” Genesis 37:5
It is used to modify an adjective and form the comparative degree, having the same force and effect as the termination er, in monosyllables; as more wise; more illustrious; more contemptible; more durable.
A second or another time; again.“The dove returned not to him again any more” Genesis 8:12“Amon trespassed more and more” 2 Chronicles 33:23“They gathered some more some less. 6” Exodus 16:17“They were more who died by hail-stones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword” Joshua 10:11“God do so to thee and more also” 1 Samuel 3:17“There were more than forty who had made this conspiracy” Acts 23:13
Greater thing; other thing; something further.

MORE, verb transitive

To make more

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.