Greek noun (neuter) · G4138
πλήρωμα
pleromaplay'-ro-mah
in passive sense, that which has been completed, complement, plenitude, fullness; In active sense (= πλήρωσις, as frequently in words of these formations, cf. κτί
17 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: plḗrōma
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4138is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4138
repletion or completion, i.e. (subjectively) what fills (as contents, supplement, copiousness, multitude), or (objectively) what is filled (as container, performance, period)
The King James renders it: which is put in to fill up, piece that filled up, fulfilling, full, fulness.
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
pleroma is rendered "in passive sense, that which has been completed, complement, plenitude, fullness; In active sense (= πλήρωσις, as frequently in words of these formations, cf. κτί". It stands 17 times in the Greek text, across eight books.
- Four of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "in passive sense, that which has been completed, complement, plenitude, fullness".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 9:16No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
Matthew 9:16πλήρωμα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: in passive sense, that which has been completed, complement, plenitude, fullness, and In active sense (= πλήρωσις, as frequently in words of these formations, cf. κτί.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| in passive sense, that which has been completed, complement, plenitude, fullness | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 1:16From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. |
| In active sense (= πλήρωσις, as frequently in words of these formations, cf. κτί | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 9:16No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment… |
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πληρόω | pleroo | to fulfill | Uses86 |
| πλήρης | pleres | full | Uses16 |
| πληροφορέω | plerophoreo | to fulfill | Uses6 |
| πληροφορία | plerophoria | assurance | Uses4 |
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- πλήρωμα11
- πληρώματος3
- πληρώματα2
- πληρώματι1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular7N-NSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular4N-ASN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular3N-GSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural2N-APN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1N-DSN
Matthew
one use
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: patch
Mark
three uses
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: patch
and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.
- πληρώματαpleromatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: fullness
“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they said.
- πληρώματαpleromatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: fillings
John
one use
From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
- πληρώματοςpleromatosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
Romans
four uses
But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fulfillment
I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
- πληρώματιpleromatinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
1 Corinthians
one use
for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
Galatians
one use
But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
Ephesians
four uses
as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.
- πληρώματοςpleromatosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.
- πληρώματοςpleromatosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
Colossians
two uses
For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
- πλήρωμαpleromanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fullness
Where it leads
Studies that open this word2
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 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.