πληροφορέω, 
πληροφόρω: (1 aorist imperative 
πληροφόρησον, infinitive 
πληροφορησαι (
Romans 15:13 L marginal reading); passive, present imperative 
πληροθορείσθω; perfect participle 
πεπληροφορημενος; 1 aorist participle 
πληροφορηθείς); (from the unused adjective 
πληροθορος, and this from 
πλήρης and 
φέρω); 
to bear or bring full, to make full; 
a. to cause a thing to be shown to the full: 
τήν διακονίαν, i. e. to fulfil the ministry in every respect, 
2 Timothy 4:5 (cf. 
πληροῦν τήν διακονίαν, 
Acts 12:25); also 
τό κήρυγμα, 
2 Timothy 4:17. 
b. "to carry through to the end, accomplish: 
πράγματα πεπληροφορημενα, 
things that have been accomplished (Itala and 
Vulg.completae), 
Luke 1:1 (cf. 
ὡς ἐπληρώθη ταῦτα, 
Acts 19:21) (cf. Meyer edition Weiss at the passage). 
c. τινα, 
to fill one with any thought, conviction, or inclination: (
Romans 15:13 L marginal reading (followed by 
ἐν with the dative of thing): others, 
πληρόω, which see, 1); hence, 
to make one certain, to persuade, convince, one (
πολλαῖς οὖν λόγοις καί ὅρκοις πληροθορησαντες Μεγαβυζον, extracted from 
Ctesias () in 
Photius, p. 41, 29 ((edited by Bekker); but on this passive, see 
Lightfoot as below)); passive, 
to be persuaded, Romans 14:5; 
πληροθορηθεις, 
persuaded, fully convinced or assured, Romans 4:21; also 
πεπληροθορήμενοι, 
Colossians 4:12 L T Tr WH; 
οἱ ἀπόστολοι... 
πληροθορηθεντες διά τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καί πιστωθενθες ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ, 
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 42, 3 [ET]; frequent so in ecclesiastical writings; 
to render inclined or bent on, ἐπληροθορηθη καρδία... 
τοῦ ποιῆσαι τό πονηρόν, 
Ecclesiastes 8:11 (cf. 
Test xii. Patr., test. Gad 2). The word is treated of fully by Bleek, Brief an d. 
Hebrews 2:2, p. 233ff; Grimm in the Jahrbb. f. Deutsche TheoI. for 1871, p. 38ff; (
Lightfoot's Commentary on 
Colossians 4:12. Cf. also 
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word.) 
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