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Strong's G4138 · Greek

πλήρωμα

pleroma · play'-ro-mah

from 4137; repletion or completion, i.e. (subjectively) what fills (as contents, supplement, copiousness, multitude), or (objectively) what is filled (as container, performance, period)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

πλήρωμα (G4138)

17 πλήρωμα , -τος, τό ( πληρόω ), [in LXX for מְלֹא ;] the result of the action involved in πληρόω (Lft., Col. , 255 ff.; AR, Eph. , 255 ff.), hence, in passive sense, that which has been completed , complement , plenitude , fullness (in Xen., Luc., Polyb., al., of a ship's crew or cargo, and by meton. of the ship itself): Jo 1:16 , Ro 11:12 , 25 15:29 , I Co 10:26 (LXX) , Eph 1:23 (AR, 42 ff.) 3:19 (AR. 87 ff.) 4:13 , Col 1:19 2:9 ; of time, Ga 4:4 , Eph 1:10 ; κοφίνων ( σφυρίδων ) πληρώματα , basketfuls , Mk 6:43 8:20 . In active sense (= πλήρωσις , as freq. in words of these formations, cf. κτίσις , and v. MM, xx); that which fills up (but v. Lft., Col. , 255 ff.): Mt 9:16 , Mk 2:21 ; a filling up , completing , fulfilment : Ro 13:10 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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