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Strong's #4138: pleroma (pronounced 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):--which is put in to fill up, piece that filled up, fulfilling, full, fulness.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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plērōma

1) that which is (has been) filled

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

1b) 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

2a) of those things which a ship is filled, freight and merchandise, sailors, oarsmen, soldiers

2b) completeness or fulness of time

3) fulness, abundance

4) a fulfilling, keeping

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G4137

Citing in TDNT: 6:298, 867




Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

Matthew 9:16: "an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the"
Mark 2:21: "else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old,"
Mark 8:20: "four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they"
John 1:16: "And of his fullness have all we received, and"
Romans 11:12: "how much more their fullness?"
Romans 11:25: "to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in."
Romans 13:10: "to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
Romans 15:29: "you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ."
1 Corinthians 10:26: "Lord's, and the fullness thereof."
1 Corinthians 10:28: "is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof:"
Galatians 4:4: "But when the fullness of the time was come, God"
Ephesians 1:10: "That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in"
Ephesians 1:23: "his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all."
Ephesians 3:19: "with all the fullness of God."
Ephesians 4:13: "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:"
Colossians 1:19: "the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;"
Colossians 2:9: "dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."









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