mallon · more, rather

What it means

mallon (μᾶλλον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “more, rather”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To a greater degree; how much more, when comparing.
2. On the contrary, more accurately.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

More, rather: an adverb that compares or corrects. Thayer: more, to a greater degree; rather, sooner. Of the same family is μάλιστα, “most of all”.

• “How much more”: the argument from the lesser to the greater Matthew 7:11Matthew 6:26Romans 5:9
• “Rather”: the correction Matthew 10:28
• “Obey God rather than people” Acts 5:29
• Loving one thing more than another John 3:19John 12:43
• “Far, far better” Philippians 1:23

How we translate it

“More” 50 times, in phrases such as “how much more” and “much more”; “rather” 24, when it corrects or states a preference (Acts 5:29); “far” 2 (“far, far better”, Philippians 1:23), “instead” 2.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• more ×50
• rather ×24
• far ×2
• instead ×2
• better ×1
• especially ×1
• less ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×9
• Mark×5
• Luke×5
• John×4
• Acts×7
• Romans×8
• 1 Corinthians×10
• 2 Corinthians×8
• Galatians×2
• Ephesians×3
• Philippians×6
• 1 Thessalonians×2
• 1 Timothy×2
• 2 Timothy×1
• Philemon×2
• Hebrews×6
• 2 Peter×1

• Matthew 6:26

  Look at the birds of the sky: they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

• Matthew 6:30

  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into an oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?

• Matthew 7:11

  If then you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

• Matthew 10:6

  but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

• Matthew 10:25

  It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they call the members of his household!

• Matthew 10:28

  And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

• Matthew 18:13

  And if it happens that he finds it, truly I tell you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

• Matthew 25:9

  But the wise answered, saying, ‘No; otherwise there will certainly not be enough for us and for you; go instead to those who sell and buy for yourselves.’

• Matthew 27:24

  When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this blood; you will see to it.”

• Mark 5:26

  and who had suffered much under many doctors, and had spent all that she had, and had not been helped at all, but rather had grown worse,

• Mark 7:36

  And he ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more they proclaimed it.

• Mark 9:42

  And whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be far better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

• Mark 10:48

  And many were rebuking him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

• Mark 15:11

  But the high priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release for them Barabbas instead.

• Luke 5:15

  But the word about him was spreading even more, and great crowds were gathering to hear and to be healed of their illnesses.

• Luke 11:13

  So if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

• Luke 12:24

  Consider the ravens, that they do not sow nor reap; they have no storeroom nor barn, and yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds!

• Luke 12:28

  But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith!

• Luke 18:39

  And those who were going ahead were rebuking him so that he would be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

• John 3:19

  And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.

• John 5:18

  For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

• John 12:43

  for they loved the glory that comes from people more than the glory that comes from God.

• John 19:8

  So when Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid,

• Acts 4:19

  But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you judge;

• Acts 5:14

  And more than ever believers were being added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

• Acts 5:29

  But Peter and the apostles answered and said, “We must obey God rather than people.

• Acts 9:22

  But Saul was being strengthened all the more, and was confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this man is the Messiah.

• Acts 20:35

  In everything I showed you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more happy to give than to receive.’”

• Acts 22:2

  And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they kept even more quiet. And he says:

• Acts 27:11

  But the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and the ship owner more than by what was said by Paul.

• Romans 5:9

  Much more, then, having now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath.

• Romans 5:10

  For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

• Romans 5:15

  But not as the trespass, so also is the gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one man Jesus the Messiah abound for the many.

• Romans 5:17

  For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus the Messiah.

• Romans 8:34

  Who is the one who will condemn? The Messiah is the one who died, and more than that, was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

• Romans 11:12

  Now if their trespass is riches for the world and their failure riches for the nations, how much more their fullness!

• Romans 11:24

  For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

• Romans 14:13

  Therefore let us no longer judge one another, but rather judge this: not to put a cause of stumbling or an offense in the way of your brother.

• 1 Corinthians 5:2

  And you are puffed up! Should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?

• 1 Corinthians 6:7

  Already, then, it is altogether a defeat for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

And 41 more times.