◄ 5048. teleioó ►
Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5048: τελειόω 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). Forms and Transliterations ετελειωθη ετελειώθη ἐτελειώθη ετελείωσα ετελείωσαν ετελείωσάν ετελείωσε ετελειωσεν ετελείωσεν ἐτελείωσεν τελειουμαι τελειούμαι τελειοῦμαι τελειούται τελειωθεις τελειωθείς τελειωθεὶς τελειωθη τελειωθή τελειωθῇ τελειωθήναι τελειωθώσι τελειωθωσιν τελειωθῶσιν τελειώσαι τελειῶσαι τελειωσαντων τελειωσάντων τελειωσας τελειώσας τελειώσει τελειώσεις τελειωσω τελειώσω τελειώσωσι τετελειωκεν τετελείωκεν τετελειωμαι τετελείωμαι τετελειωμενη τετελειωμένη τετελειωμενοι τετελειωμένοι τετελειωμενον τετελειωμένον τετελειωμένος τετελειωμένου τετελειωμενων τετελειωμένων τετελειωται τετελείωται eteleiosen eteleiōsen eteleíosen eteleíōsen eteleiothe eteleiōthē eteleiṓthe eteleiṓthē teleiosai teleiôsai teleiōsai teleiō̂sai teleiosanton teleiosánton teleiōsantōn teleiōsántōn teleiosas teleiōsas teleiṓsas teleioso teleiōsō teleiṓso teleiṓsō teleiothe teleiōthē teleiothêi teleiōthē̂i teleiotheis teleiotheìs teleiōtheis teleiōtheìs teleiothosin teleiothôsin teleiōthōsin teleiōthō̂sin teleioumai teleioûmai teteleioken teteleiōken teteleíoken teteleíōken teteleiomai teteleiōmai teteleíomai teteleíōmai teteleiomene teteleioméne teteleiōmenē teteleiōménē teteleiomenoi teteleioménoi teteleiōmenoi teteleiōménoi teteleiomenon teteleioménon teteleiōmenon teteleiōmenōn teteleiōménon teteleiōménōn teteleiotai teteleiōtai teteleíotai teteleíōtai Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts