so great
Telikoutos marks something as being of exceptional magnitude, whether death, salvation, ships, or an earthquake.
Across the supplied verses, the term marks the exceptional scale of what is being described: deliverance from death, salvation not to be neglected, large ships, and an unprecedented earthquake.
Senses in use
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Exceptional magnitude of a described thing · dominant
In 2 Corinthians 1:10, the genitive singular masculine form qualifies the death from which deliverance came; in Hebrews 2:3, the genitive singular feminine form qualifies the salvation that must not be neglected. The nominative forms describe ships in James 3:4 and the earthquake in Revelation 16:18; the APB renders these clauses with "so large" and "so great."
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with magnitude language: "so great" for death, salvation, and the earthquake, and "so large" for ships. These renderings confirm the clauses' emphasis on scale rather than supply a separate lexical distinction.