VERY — an adverb, and the third thing the Shema asks you to love God with. In its ordinary use it is the intensifier behind ‘very good’ and ‘increase GREATLY’; at Deuteronomy 6:5 it takes a possessive suffix and becomes a noun — your very-much-ness — which is why this translation reads ‘with all your UTMOST’, an English intensifier turned noun in the same way, rather than another word for the body. ⭐ The phrase ‘with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your me’od’ occurs exactly TWICE in the Hebrew Bible: here, and at 2 Kings 23:25 (not yet on these pages), the verdict on King Josiah — no king before him turned to Jehovah like that. ⭐ The best proof that it has no equivalent is that the Greek New Testament could not choose one: Matthew 22:37 renders it dianoia, MIND, and gives three terms; Mark 12:30 and Luke 10:27 give four, adding ischys, strength; and Mark 12:33 reaches for synesis, understanding. Confirmed directly against the archived Greek. → first discussed at Deut 6:5