Strong's #4137: pleroo (pronounced play-ro'-o)
from 4134; to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.:--accomplish, X after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully preach, perfect, supply.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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plēroō
1) to make full, to fill up, i.e. to fill to the full
1a) to cause to abound, to furnish or supply liberally
1a1) I abound, I am liberally supplied
2) to render full, i.e. to complete
2a) to fill to the top: so that nothing shall be wanting to full measure, fill to the brim
2b) to consummate: a number
2b1) to make complete in every particular, to render perfect
2b2) to carry through to the end, to accomplish, carry out, (some undertaking)
2c) to carry into effect, bring to realisation, realise
2c1) of matters of duty: to perform, execute
2c2) of sayings, promises, prophecies, to bring to pass, ratify, accomplish
2c3) to fulfil, i.e. to cause God' s will (as made known in the law) to be obeyed as it should be, and God' s promises (given through the prophets) to receive fulfilment
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from G4134
Citing in TDNT: 6:286, 867
Usage:
This word is used 90 times:
Acts 5:28: "this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine,"
Acts 7:23: "And when he was full forty years old, it came into"
Acts 7:30: "And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the"
Acts 9:23: "after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill"
Acts 12:25: "returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John,"
Acts 13:25: "And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think"
Acts 13:27: "prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning"
Acts 13:52: "And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost."
Acts 14:26: "the work which they fulfilled."
Acts 19:21: "After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the"
Acts 24:27: "But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room:"
Romans 1:29: " Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full"
Romans 8:4: "righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not"
Romans 13:8: "for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
Romans 15:13: "the God of hope fill you with all joy and"
Romans 15:14: "are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also"
Romans 15:19: "unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ."
2 Corinthians 7:4: "glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in"
2 Corinthians 10:6: "when your obedience is fulfilled."
Galatians 5:14: "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in"
Ephesians 1:23: "body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all."
Ephesians 3:19: "which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness"
Ephesians 4:10: "all heavens, that he might fill all things.)"
Ephesians 5:18: "wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;"
Philippians 1:11: " Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto"
Philippians 2:2: " Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the"
Philippians 4:18: "all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things"
Philippians 4:19: "But my God shall supply all your need according"
Colossians 1:9: "and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will"
Colossians 1:25: "to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;"
Colossians 2:10: "And ye are complete in him, which is the"
Colossians 4:12: "ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God."
Colossians 4:17: "in the Lord, that thou fulfill it."
2 Thessalonians 1:11: "God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure"
2 Timothy 1:4: "of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;"
James 2:23: "And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed"
1 John 1:4: "your joy may be full."
2 John 1:12: "face to face, that our joy may be full."
Revelation 3:2: "found thy works perfect before God."
Revelation 6:11: "that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled."
