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Greek verb · G4130

πλήθω

plethoplay'-tho

to fill

24 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: plḗthō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4130is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 8
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4130

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

The King James renders it: accomplish, full (…come), furnish.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

pletho is rendered "to fill". It stands 24 times in the Greek text, across three books.

  • Thirteen of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 22:10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
  • The Greek text spells it eight different ways.

The first use

So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

Matthew 22:10ἐπλήσθη

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Thirteen of the word's twenty-four uses are in Luke.

The other 24 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • were filled4
  • were fulfilled4
  • they were filled3
  • was filled3
  • having been filled2
  • became full1
  • filled1
  • having filled1
  • he will be filled1
  • they were filled with1
  • to fill1
  • was fulfilled1

and 1 more, 24 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

πλῆθοςplethosmultitudeUses31
πληθύνωplethynoto multiplyUses12

The words it stands beside

All 24, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

8 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἐπλήσθησαν12
  • ἐπλήσθη5
  • πλησθεὶς2
  • ἔπλησαν1
  • πλήσας1
  • πλησθῆναι1
  • πλησθῇς1
  • πλησθήσεται1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural12V-API-3P
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular5V-API-3S
  • verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-APP-NSM
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
  • verb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)1V-APN
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-APS-2S
  • verb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FPI-3S

Matthew

two uses
  • So the servants went out into the streets and gathered everyone they could find, both evil and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

    Matthew 22:10

    • ἐπλήσθηeplestheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: became full
  • One of them quickly ran and brought a sponge. He filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed, and held it up for Jesus to drink.

    Matthew 27:48

    • πλήσαςplesasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having filled

Luke

thirteen uses
  • for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.

    Luke 1:15

    • πλησθήσεταιplesthesetaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he will be filled
  • And when the days of his service were complete, he returned home.

    Luke 1:23

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were fulfilled
  • When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

    Luke 1:41

    • ἐπλήσθηeplestheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was filled
  • When the time came for Elizabeth to have her child, she gave birth to a son.

    Luke 1:57

    • ἐπλήσθηeplestheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was fulfilled
  • Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:

    Luke 1:67

    • ἐπλήσθηeplestheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was filled
  • While they were there, the time came for her Child to be born.

    Luke 2:6

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were fulfilled
  • When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.

    Luke 2:21

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were fulfilled
  • And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord

    Luke 2:22

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were fulfilled
  • On hearing this, all the people in the synagogue were enraged.

    Luke 4:28

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were filled
  • So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

    Luke 5:7

    • ἔπλησανeplesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: filled
  • Everyone was taken with amazement and glorified God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”

    Luke 5:26

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were filled
  • But the scribes and Pharisees were filled with rage and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

    Luke 6:11

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were filled
  • For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

    Luke 21:22

    • πλησθῆναιplesthenaiverb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to fill

Acts

nine uses
  • And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

    Acts 2:4

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were filled with
  • they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

    Acts 3:10

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were filled
  • Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!

    Acts 4:8

    • πλησθεὶςplestheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having been filled
  • After they had prayed, their meeting place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

    Acts 4:31

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were filled
  • Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out

    Acts 5:17

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were filled
  • So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

    Acts 9:17

    • πλησθῇςplestheasverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you may be filled
  • Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked directly at Elymas

    Acts 13:9

    • πλησθεὶςplestheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having been filled
  • But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

    Acts 13:45

    • ἐπλήσθησανeplesthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were filled
  • Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.

    Acts 19:29

    • ἐπλήσθηeplestheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was filled

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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