Definition

complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun, with G3588 (ὁ)) completeness

Etymology

from G5056 (τέλος);

Where the KJV renders it

• of full age
• man
• perfect

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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