Word study
Extremely
3 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “extremely”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “extremely” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- מְאֹד meôdmuchness, force, abundance, exceedinglytranslated this way 2 times of its 195 uses · Strong’s H3966Adverb · Translated: greatly 28, very 12, was very 8, exceedingly 8Full study and all 186 verses →
Genesis 13:2 And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
Nehemiah 5:6 When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,
- יַתִּיר yattîrpre-eminent, surpassingtranslated this way 2 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s H3493Adjective · Translated: extraordinary 3, extremely 2, so 1, surpassing 1Full study and all 7 verses →
Daniel 7:7 After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying — dreadful and extremely strong — with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.
Daniel 7:19 Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others — extremely terrifying — devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.
- עָרַם ârambe shrewd, craftytranslated this way 1 time of its 5 uses · Strong’s H6191Verb · Translated: extremely cunning 1, craftiness 1, cunning 1, prudent 1Full study and all 5 verses →
1 Samuel 23:22 Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.
Greek words (New Testament)
- σφόδρα sphódraexceedingly, greatlytranslated this way 2 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s G4970Adverb · Translated: extremely 2, greatly 1, rapidly 1Full study and all 4 verses →
Mark 16:4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, even though it was extremely large.
Luke 18:23 But when the ruler heard this, he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy.
- περισσῶς perissōsgreatly, exceedinglytranslated this way 1 time of its 10 uses · Strong’s G4057Adverb · Translated: louder 2, more 2Full study and all 9 verses →
Galatians 1:14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.