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KJV Dictionary Definition: abundance

abundance

ABUND'ANCE, n. Great plenty; an overflowing quantity; ample sufficiency; in strictness applicable to quantity only; but customarily used of number, as an abundance of peasants.

In scripture, the abundance of the rich is great wealth. Eccl. 5. Mark, 7. Luke 21.

The abundance of the seas is great plenty of fish.

Deut. 33.

It denotes also fullness, overflowing, as the abundance of the heart. Mat. 22. Luke, 6.

abundant

ABUND'ANT, a. Plentiful; in great quantity; fully sufficient; as an abundant supply. In scripture, abounding; having in great quantity; overflowing with.

The Lord God is abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv.

Abundant number, in arithmetic, is one, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the aliquot parts of 12, make the sum of 16. This is opposed to a deficient number, as 14, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 7, the sum of which is 10; and to a perfect number, which is equal to the sum of its aliquot parts, as 6, whose aliquot parts are 1, 2, 3.

abundantly

ABUND'ANTLY, adv. Fully; amply; plentifully; in a sufficient degree.