Plenty
Bible Usage:
- plenty used 13 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 27:28
- Last Reference: Joel 2:26
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H398 Used 1 time
- H4723 Used 1 time
- H7230 Used 3 times
- H7235 Used 1 time
- H7646 Used 2 times
- H7647 Used 4 times
- H8443 Used 1 time
PLEN'TY, noun [from Latin plenus.] Abundance; copiousness; full or adequate supply; as, we have a plenty of corn for bread; the garrison has a plenty of provisions. Its application to persons, as a plenty of buyers or sellers, is inelegant.
1. Fruitfulness; a poetic use.
The teeming clouds
Descend in gladsome plenty o'er the world.
PLEN'TY, adjective Plentiful; being in abundance.
Where water is plenty--
If reasons were as plenty as blackberries.
In every country where liquors are plenty
The common sorts of fowls and the several gallinaceous species are plenty
A variety of other herbs and roots which are plenty
They seem formed for those countries where shrubs are plenty and water scarce.
When laborers are plenty their wages will be low.
In the country, where wood is more plenty they make their beams stronger.
[The use of this word as an adjective seems too well authorized to be rejected. It is universal in common parlance in the United States.]
Bible Usage:
- plenty used 13 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 27:28
- Last Reference: Joel 2:26
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H398 Used 1 time
- H4723 Used 1 time
- H7230 Used 3 times
- H7235 Used 1 time
- H7646 Used 2 times
- H7647 Used 4 times
- H8443 Used 1 time