Pleion is the comparative form of polys ('much, many') and serves as the New Testament's primary word for 'more' in nearly every dimension — more people, more time, greater importance, further extent. Its versatility is deceptive: what looks like a single word actually carves up several distinct semantic spaces. Sometimes it compares quantities explicitly ('more than five thousand,' Matt 14:21 par.). Sometimes it stands alone with the article to mean 'the majority' or 'most people' (1 Cor 15:6). In the Synoptic Gospels, Jesus uses it to assert qualitative superiority — 'something greater than the temple is here' (Matt 12:6) — collapsing the quantitative and the evaluative into a single devastating claim. Spanish distinguishes más (quantitative) from mayor (evaluative), revealing the semantic seam that Greek leaves unmarked.