Strong’s G4138 · Greek

πλήρωμα
plḗrōma

Definition

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

Etymology

from G4137 (πληρόω);

Where the KJV renders it

  • which is put in to fill up
  • piece that filled up
  • fulfilling
  • full
  • fulness

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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