Greatest - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Greatest

[ 1,,G3173, megas ]
for which See GREAT, No. 1, is translated the greatest," in Acts 8:10; Hebrews 8:11. The whole phrase, lit., "from small to great," is equivalent to the Eng. idiom "one and all." It is used in the Sept., e.g., in 1 Samuel 5:9, "God smote the people of Gath from the least to the greatest," ("both small and great"). So 1 Samuel 30:19; 2 Chronicles 34:30, etc. See GREAT.

[ 2,,G3187, meizon ]
the comparative of No. 1, is sometimes translated "greatest;" besides the two cases given under GREATER, No. 1, where the RV corrects the AV, "greatest" to "greater" (Matthew 13:32; Luke 22:26), the RV itself has "greatest" for this comparative in the following, and relegates "greater" to the margin, Matthew 18:1,4; Matthew 23:11; Mark 9:34; Luke 9:46; Luke 22:24. See GREATER, MORE.

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