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Lexicon :: Strong's G4138 - plērōma

Aa
πλήρωμα
Transliteration
plērōma (Key)
Pronunciation
play'-ro-mah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:298,867

Strong’s Definitions

πλήρωμα plḗrōma, play'-ro-mah; from G4137; repletion or completion, i.e. (subjectively) what fills (as contents, supplement, copiousness, multitude), or (objectively) what is filled (as container, performance, period):—which is put in to fill up, piece that filled up, fulfilling, full, fulness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G4138 in the following manner: fulness (13x), full (1x), fulfilling (1x), which is put in to fill up (1x), pierce that filled up (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G4138 in the following manner: fulness (13x), full (1x), fulfilling (1x), which is put in to fill up (1x), pierce that filled up (1x).

  1. that which is (has been) filled

    1. a ship inasmuch as it is filled (i.e. manned) with sailors, rowers, and soldiers

    2. in the NT, the body of believers, as that which is filled with the presence, power, agency, riches of God and of Christ

  2. that which fills or with which a thing is filled

    1. of those things which a ship is filled, freight and merchandise, sailors, oarsmen, soldiers

    2. completeness or fulness of time

  3. fulness, abundance

  4. a fulfilling, keeping

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πλήρωμα plḗrōma, play'-ro-mah; from G4137; repletion or completion, i.e. (subjectively) what fills (as contents, supplement, copiousness, multitude), or (objectively) what is filled (as container, performance, period):—which is put in to fill up, piece that filled up, fulfilling, full, fulness.
STRONGS G4138:
πλήρωμα, πληρώματος, τό (πληρόω), the Sept. for מְלֹא;
1. etymologically it has a passive sense, that which is (or has been) filled; very rarely so in classical Greek: a ship, inasmuch as it is filled (i. e. manned) with sailors, rowers, and soldiers; ἀπό δύο πληρωματων Ἐμάχοντο, Lucian, ver. hist. 2, 37; πέντε εἶχον πληρώματα, ibid. 38. In the N. T. the body of believers, as that which is filled with the presence, power, agency, riches of God and of Christ: τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Ephesians 4:13 (see ἡλικία, 1 c. (cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 3 N. T; Buttmann, 155 (136))); Ephesians 1:23; εἰς πᾶν τό πλήρωμα τοῦ Θεοῦ, that ye may become a body wholly filled and flooded by God, Ephesians 3:19 (but WH marginal reading reads πληρωθῇ πᾶν τό
2. that which fills or with which a thing is filled: so very frequently in classical Greek from Herodotus down; especially of those things with which ships are filled, freight and merchandise, sailors, oarsmen, soldiers (cf. our 'complement' (yet cf. Lightfoot as below, p. 258f)) (of the animals filling Noah's ark, Philo de vit. Moys. ii. § 12); πλήρωμα πόλεως, the inhabitants or population filling a city, Plato, de rep. 2, p. 371 e.; Aristotle, polit. 3, 13, p. 1284{a}, 5; 4,4, p. 1291a, 17; others. So in the N. T. ἡ γῆ καί τό πλήρωμα αὐτῆς, whatever fills the earth or is contained in it, 1 Corinthians 10:26, 28 Rec. (Psalm 23:1 (Ps. 24:1); Ps 49:12 (Ps. 50:12); Jeremiah 8:16; Ezekiel 12:19, etc.; τό πλήρωμα τῆς θαλάσσης, Psalm 95:11 (Ps. 96:11); 1 Chronicles 16:32); κοφίνων πληρώματα, those things with which the baskets were filled, (basketfuls), Mark 6:43 T Tr WH (on this passive, cf. Lightfoot as below, p. 260); also σπυρίδων πληρώματα, Mark 8:20; the filling (Latincomplementum) by which a gap is filled up, Matthew 9:16; Mark 2:21; that by which a loss is repaired, spoken of the reception of all the Jews into the kingdom of God (see ἥττημα, 1), Romans 11:12. Of time (see πληρόω, 2 b. α.), that portion of time by which a longer antecedent period is completed; hence, completeness, fullness, of time: τοῦ χρόνου, Galatians 4:4; τῶν καιρῶν, Ephesians 1:10 (on which see οἰκονομία).
3. fullness, abundance: John 1:16; Colossians 1:19; Colossians 2:9; full number, Romans 11:25.
4. equivalent to πλήρωσις (see καύχημα, 2), i. e. a fulfilling, keeping: τοῦ νόμου (see πληρόω, 2 c. α.), Romans 13:10. For a full discussion of this word see Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans, ii., p. 469ff; (especially Lightfoot's Commentary on Colossians, p. 257ff).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Chronicles
16:32
Psalms
23:1; 24:1; 49:12; 50:12; 95:11; 96:11
Jeremiah
8:16
Ezekiel
12:19
Matthew
9:16
Mark
2:21; 6:43; 8:20
John
1:16
Romans
11:12; 11:25; 13:10
1 Corinthians
10:26; 10:28
Galatians
4:4
Ephesians
1:10; 1:23; 3:19; 4:13
Colossians
1:19; 2:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4138 matches the Greek πλήρωμα (plērōma),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 9:16 - And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 2:21 - No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:43 - And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken bits and of the fishes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:20 - And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 1:16 - From his full measure we have all been given grace on grace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:12 - Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 11:25 - For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 13:10 - Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 15:29 - And I am certain that when I come, I will be full of the blessing of Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:26 - For the earth is the Lord's and all things in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:4 - But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:10 - The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 1:23 - Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:19 - And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:13 - Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:19 - For God in full measure was pleased to be in him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 2:9 - For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,
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