A-1 | Noun | Strong's Number: g2676 | Greek: katartisis |
Perfection, Perfecting (Noun), Perfectness:
"a making fit," is used figuratively in an ethical sense in 2Cr 13:9, RV, "perfecting" (AV, "perfection"), implying a process leading to consummation (akin to katartizo, see PERFECT, B, No. 3).
A-2 | Noun | Strong's Number: g2677 | Greek: katartismos |
Perfection, Perfecting (Noun), Perfectness:
denotes, in much the same way as No. 1, "a fitting or preparing fully," Eph 4:12.
A-3 | Noun | Strong's Number: g5050 | Greek: teleiosis |
Perfection, Perfecting (Noun), Perfectness:
denotes "a fulfillment, completion, perfection, and end accomplished as the effect of a process," Hbr 7:11; in Luk 1:45, RV, "fulfillment" (AV, "performance").
A-4 | Noun | Strong's Number: g5051 | Greek: teleiotes |
Perfection, Perfecting (Noun), Perfectness:
denotes much the same as No. 3, but stressing perhaps the actual accomplishment of the end in view, Col 3:14, "perfectness;" Hbr 6:1, "perfection." In the Sept., Jdg 9:16, 19; Pro 11:3; Jer 2:2.
B-1 | Verb | Strong's Number: g5052 | Greek: telesphoreo |
Perfection, Perfecting (Noun), Perfectness:
"to bring to a completion" or "an end in view" (telos, "an end," phero, "to bear"), is said of plants, Luk 8:14.
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