Definition

to "fill" (literally or figuratively (imbue, influence, supply)); specially, to fulfil (time)

Etymology

a prolonged form of a primary (which appears only as an alternate in certain tenses and in the reduplicated form pimplemi);

Where the KJV renders it

• accomplish
• full (…come)
• furnish

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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