Strong's Number 4050

Transliteration:
perisseia {per-is-si'-ah}
Word Origin:
from 4052
TDNT:
6:63,828
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
abundance 2, abundantly 1, superfluity 1

Total: 4
Definition:
  1. abundance, superabundantly, superfluously
  2. superiority, preference, pre-eminence
  3. gain, profit
  4. residue, remains: the wickedness remaining over in a Christian from his state prior to conversion
Used by the Greeks to describe the excess wax in their ears.