εμπιπλημι
to fill up
‘to fill up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 distinct verse where G1705 appears in the Present tense, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to fill up” is the headline sense of the Greek verb εμπιπλημι (empíplēmi). The Greek New Testament uses it only 5 verses. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 40% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 1:53. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1705 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 60%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 60%
- Johannine 1 verse · 20%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Are full 1×, Filled 1×, Filling 1×
- American Standard Version: He hath filled 1×, Satisfied 1×, Seasons 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are well fed 1×, Everyone was full 1×, Filling 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be satisfied 1×, Being filled 1×, Filling 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1705 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1705 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1705 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1705 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to fill up, fill full
- to take one's fill of, glut one's desire for, satisfy, satiate
Word origin
Derived from εν (en) (G1722).
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1705 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐμπεπλησμένοι empeplēsménoi | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 6:25 | 1 |
| ἐμπιπλῶν empiplō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 14:17 | 1 |
| ἐμπλησθῶ emplēsthō̂ | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular | Romans 15:24 | 1 |
| ἐνέπλησεν enéplēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Luke 1:53 | 1 |
| ἐνεπλήσθησαν eneplḗsthēsan | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | John 6:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1705, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εγγραφω engráphō G1449 to inscribe
- εγγυος éngyos G1450 surety
- εγκαθετος enkáthetos G1455 to spy
- εγκαινια enkaínia G1456 dedication
- εγκαλεω enkaléō G1458 to accuse
- εγκαταλειπω enkataleípō G1459 to abandon
- εγκατοικεω enkatoikéō G1460 to dwell
- εγκεντριζω enkentrízō G1461 to graft
- εγκομβοομαι enkombóomai G1463 band
- εγκοπτω enkóptō G1465 to hinder
- εγκρατης enkratḗs G1468 strong
- εγκρινω enkrínō G1469 to judge worthy
- εγκρυπτω enkrýptō G1470 to conceal
- εγκυος énkyos G1471 pregnant
- εγχριω enchríō G1472 to anoint
- ελλογεω ellogéō G1677 impute
- εμβαινω embaínō G1684 to enter
- εμβαλλω embállō G1685 to cast in
- εμβαπτω embáptō G1686 to dip in
- εμβατευω embateúō G1687 to enter
- εμβιβαζω embibázō G1688 to lead in
- εμβλεπω emblépō G1689 to look at
- εμβριμαομαι embrimáomai G1690 to warn sternly
- εμμαινομαι emmaínomai G1693 to rage against
+58 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 84 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εμπιπλημι appears 113 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 111 verses in 21 books.
- 113
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 111
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 21 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 21 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 42:25 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Exodus 15:9 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Leviticus 26:26 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Numbers 14:21 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Deuteronomy 6:11 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Ruth 2:14 ἐνπίμπλημι
- 2 Kings 3:25 ἐνπίμπλημι
- 2 Chronicles 5:13 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Ezra 19:25 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Job 8:21 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Psalms 21:27 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Proverbs 6:30 ἐνπίμπλημι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1705) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 111. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 42:25 ἐνπίμπλημι Then Joseph commanded to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it done to them.
- Exodus 15:9 ἐνπίμπλημι The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
- Exodus 28:3 ἐνπίμπλημι You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 28:41 ἐνπίμπλημι You shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 31:3 ἐνπίμπλημι and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
- Exodus 35:31 ἐνπίμπλημι He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
- Exodus 35:35 ἐνπίμπλημι He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.
- Leviticus 26:26 ἐνπίμπλημι When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Numbers 14:21 ἐνπίμπλημι but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Yahweh;
- Deuteronomy 6:11 ἐνπίμπλημι and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;
- Deuteronomy 8:10 ἐνπίμπλημι You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
- Deuteronomy 8:12 ἐνπίμπλημι lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
- Deuteronomy 11:15 ἐνπίμπλημι I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full.
- Deuteronomy 14:29 ἐνπίμπλημι and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
- Deuteronomy 23:26 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Deuteronomy 26:12 ἐνπίμπλημι When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
- Deuteronomy 27:7 ἐνπίμπλημι and you shall sacrifice peace-offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 31:20 ἐνπίμπλημι For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
- Deuteronomy 32:15 ἐνπίμπλημι But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Deuteronomy 33:23 ἐνπίμπλημι Of Naphtali he said, Naphtali, satisfied with favor, Full with the blessing of Yahweh, Possess you the west and the south.
- Deuteronomy 34:9 ἐνπίμπλημι Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Ruth 2:14 ἐνπίμπλημι At meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was sufficed, and left of it.
- Ruth 2:18 ἐνπίμπλημι She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.
- 2 Kings 3:25 ἐνπίμπλημι They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left the stones of it; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.
- 2 Chronicles 5:13 ἐνπίμπλημι it happened, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh,
- 2 Chronicles 5:14 ἐνπίμπλημι so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God.
- Ezra 19:25 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Job 8:21 ἐνπίμπλημι He will still fill your mouth with laughter, Your lips with shouting.
- Job 9:18 ἐνπίμπλημι He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
- Job 15:2 ἐνπίμπλημι "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
- Job 19:22 ἐνπίμπλημι Why do you persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
- Job 20:11 ἐνπίμπλημι His bones are full of his youth, But youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Job 22:18 ἐνπίμπλημι Yet he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- Job 23:4 ἐνπίμπλημι I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
- Job 33:24 ἐνπίμπλημι Then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
- Job 38:39 ἐνπίμπλημι "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
- Job 40:13 ἐνπίμπλημι Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
- Psalms 21:27 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Psalms 62:6 ἐνπίμπλημι He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.
- Psalms 77:29 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Psalms 89:14 ἐνπίμπλημι Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
- Psalms 90:16 ἐνπίμπλημι Let your work appear to your servants; Your glory to their children.
- Psalms 102:5 ἐνπίμπλημι By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
- Psalms 104:40 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Psalms 106:9 ἐνπίμπλημι He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; So he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
- Psalms 144:16 ἐνπίμπλημι
- Psalms 147:3 ἐνπίμπλημι He heals the broken in heart, And binds up their wounds.
- Proverbs 6:30 ἐνπίμπλημι Men don't despise a thief, If he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:
- Proverbs 8:21 ἐνπίμπλημι That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
- Proverbs 12:11 ἐνπίμπλημι He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, But he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1705) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
