Malista marks a person, group, item, or circumstance as receiving heightened focus within a wider statement.

The attested use marks heightened focus on a particular member of a larger group, a specified item, or a circumstance: believers within all people, a household within one’s own people, parchments among requested items, and King Agrippa among those addressed. It can also sharpen the stated degree of grief or the grounds for an appeal.

1. Heightened focus within a broader statement · dominant

   As an adverb, the form singles out a person, group, item, or circumstance for added prominence. In Galatians 6:10 the APB renders doing good to everyone and then “especially to those who are of the household of faith”; in 2 Timothy 4:13 it distinguishes “the parchments” among the requested belongings, and in Acts 25:26 it directs particular attention to King Agrippa among those before whom the prisoner is brought.

   Galatians 6:101 Timothy 4:101 Timothy 5:172 Timothy 4:13Acts 25:26Philemon 1:16

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the added focus with “especially,” as in the references to believers, households, parchments, and King Agrippa. In Acts 20:38 and Acts 26:3, it likewise places “especially” with grief and with the stated reason for the appeal; these renderings reflect the verse-level a whole-verse translation.