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Lexicon :: Strong's G5048 - teleioō

Aa
τελειόω
Transliteration
teleioō (Key)
Pronunciation
tel-i-o'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
23x in 17 unique form(s) TR
24x in 18 unique form(s) LXX
14x in 12 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 8:79,1161

Strong’s Definitions

τελειόω teleióō, tel-i-o'-o; from G5046; to complete, i.e. (literally) accomplish, or (figuratively) consummate (in character):—consecrate, finish, fulfil, make) perfect.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x

The KJV translates Strong's G5048 in the following manner: make perfect (12x), perfect (4x), finish (4x), fulfil (2x), be perfect (1x), consecrate (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 24x
The KJV translates Strong's G5048 in the following manner: make perfect (12x), perfect (4x), finish (4x), fulfil (2x), be perfect (1x), consecrate (1x).

  1. to make perfect, complete

    1. to carry through completely, to accomplish, finish, bring to an end

  2. to complete (perfect)

    1. add what is yet wanting in order to render a thing full

    2. to be found perfect

  3. to bring to the end (goal) proposed

  4. to accomplish

    1. bring to a close or fulfilment by event

      1. of the prophecies of the scriptures

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
τελειόω teleióō, tel-i-o'-o; from G5046; to complete, i.e. (literally) accomplish, or (figuratively) consummate (in character):—consecrate, finish, fulfil, make) perfect.
STRONGS G5048:
τελειόω (in secular authors also τελεόω, which Herodotus uses everywhere (and which is the prevailing form in Attic prose (Liddell and Scott)); other writers use both forms indifferently), τελείω: 1 aorist ετελείωσα; perfect τετελείωκα; passive (or middle), present τελειοῦμαι; perfect τετελείωμαι; 1 aorist ἐτελειωθην; (τέλειος); from Herodotus, Sophocles, Thucydides, and Plato down; equivalent to τέλειον ποιῶ, to make perfect or complete;
1. to carry through completely; to accomplish, finish, bring to an end: τόν, Acts 20:24; τό ἔργον, John 4:34; John 5:36; John 17:4,(Nehemiah 6:16; τόν οἶκον, 2 Chronicles 8:16); τάς ἡμέρας, Luke 2:43; middle (present cf. Buttmann, 38 (33)) τελειοῦμαι, I finish complete, what was given me to do, Luke 13:32 (some (so A. V.) take it here as passive, I am perfected (understanding it of his death; cf. Ellicott, Life of our Lord, Lect. vi., p. 242 n{1}; Keim, ii., 615 n^1)).
2. to complete (perfect), i. e. add what is yet lacking in order to render a thing full: τήν ἀγάπην, passive, 1 John 2:5; 1 John 4:12, 17; ἡ δύναμις μου ἐν ἀσθένεια τελειοῦται, my power shows itself most efficacious in them that are weak, 2 Corinthians 12:9 R G; ἐκ τῶν ἔργων ἡ πίστις ἐτελειώθη, by works faith was perfected, made such as it ought to be, James 2:22; τετελείωται τίς ἐν τῇ ἀγάπη, one has been made perfect in love, his love lacks nothing, 1 John 4:18 (οἱ τελειωθεντες ἐν ἀγάπη, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 50, 3 [ET]; (τελειῶσαι τήν ἐκκλησίαν σου ἐν τῇ ἀγάπη σου, 'Teaching' etc. 10, 5 [ET])); ἵνα ὠσί τετελειωμένοι εἰς ἕν, that they may be perfected into one, i. e. perfectly united, John 17:23. τινα, to bring one's character to perfection: ἤδη τετελείωμαι, I am already made perfect, Philippians 3:12 (Wis. 4:13; ὦ ψυχή... ὅταν τελειωθης καί βραβειων καί στεφάνων ἀξιωθης, Philo de legg. alleg. 3, 23; ψυχή... τελειωθεισα ἐν ἀρετῶν ἀθλοις καί ἐπί τόν ὅρον ἐφικομενη τοῦ καλοῦ, id. de somn. 1, 21; equivalent to to be footpad perfect, Sir. 34:10 (Sir. 31:10).
3. to bring to the end (goal) proposed: οὐδέν, Hebrews 7:19; τινα, (to perfect or consummate) i. e. to raise to the state befitting him: so of God exalting Jesus to the state of heavenly majesty, Hebrews 2:10; in the passive, Hebrews 5:9; Hebrews 7:28; to raise to the state of heavenly blessedness those who put their faith in the expiatory death of Christ, passive, Hebrews 11:40; Hebrews 12:23 ((Act. Petr. et Paul. § 88, Tdf. edition, p. 39; Act. Barnab. § 9, id., p. 68; cf. 'Teaching' etc. 16, 2 [ET]); with μαρτυρίῳ added, of the death of the apost. Paul, Eusebius, h. e. 2, 22, 2 (cf. Heinichen's note on 7, 15, 5)); to make one, meet for future entrance on this state and give him a sure hope of it even here on earth, Hebrews 10:1, 14; τινα κατά συνείδησιν, Hebrews 9:9; cf. Bleek, Brief an d. Hebrews 2:1, p. 297ff; C. R. Köstlin, Lehrbegriff des Evang. u. der Briefe Johannis (Berl. 1843), p. 421ff; Riehm, Lehrbegriff des Hebrew-Br., § 42, p. 340ff; Pfleiderer, Paulinismus, p. 344f. (English translation, ii, p. 72ff).
4. to accomplish, i. e. bring to a close or fulfilment by event: τήν γραφήν, the prophecies of Scripture, passive, John 19:28 (cf. Winers Grammar, 459 (428); Buttmann, § 151, 20).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Chronicles
8:16
Nehemiah
6:16
Luke
2:43; 13:32
John
4:34; 5:36; 17:4; 17:23; 19:28
Acts
20:24
2 Corinthians
12:9
Philippians
3:12
Hebrews
2:1; 2:10; 5:9; 7:19; 7:28; 9:9; 10:1; 10:14; 11:40; 12:23
James
2:22
1 John
2:5; 4:12; 4:17; 4:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5048 matches the Greek τελειόω (teleioō),
which occurs 23 times in 23 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 2:43 - And when the days of the feast came to an end and they were going back, the boy Jesus was still in Jerusalem, but they had no knowledge of it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 13:32 - And he said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:34 - Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:36 - But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:4 - I have given you glory on the earth, having done all the work which you gave me to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:23 - I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 19:28 - After this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings might come true, Jesus said, Give me water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:24 - But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 3:12 - Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 2:10 - Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 5:9 - And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:19 - (Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:28

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 7:28 - The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 9:9 - And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:1 - For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 10:14 - Because by one offering he has made complete for ever those who are made holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:40 - Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 12:23 - To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 2:22 - You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 2:5 - But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:12 - No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:17 - In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 4:18 - There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.
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