ἀναπληρόω
to fill up
also: make full, e.g. a ditch fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
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).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- 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”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G378 appears in the Aorist tense in the Book of 1 Corinthians. 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.
1 Corinthians
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 αναπληροω (anaplēróō). First canonically at Matthew 13:14, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in 1 Corinthians. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “make full” and “e.g. a ditch”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G378 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 2 verses 33%
- Matthew 1 verse 17%
- Galatians 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 83%
- Gospels 1 verse · 17%
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: Fill up 1×, Fulfil 1×, Have supplied 1×
- American Standard Version: Fill up 1×, Filleth 1×, Fulfil 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Have supplied 1×, Heap up 1×, Is fulfilled 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fill up 1×, Filling 1×, Have supplied 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G378 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G378 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G378 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G378 across 7 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, make full, e.g. a ditch
- to supply
Word origin
Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G378 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀναπληροῦται anaplēroûtai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 13:14 | 1 |
| ἀναπληρώσετε anaplērṓsete | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Galatians 6:2 | 1 |
| ἀναπληρώσῃ anaplērṓsē | Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Philippians 2:30 | 1 |
| ἀναπληρῶν anaplērō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 14:16 | 1 |
| ἀναπληρῶσαι anaplērō̂sai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | 1 Thessalonians 2:16 | 1 |
| ἀνεπλήρωσαν aneplḗrōsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | 1 Corinthians 16:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G378, 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
- αναβαινω anabaínō G305 to ascend
- αναβαλλομαι anabállomai G306 to delay
- αναβιβαζω anabibázō G307 to draw up
- αναβλεπω anablépō G308 to look up
- αναβοαω anaboáō G310 to cry out
- αναγγελλω anangéllō G312 to announce
- αναγενναω anagennáō G313 to be born again
- αναγινωσκω anaginṓskō G314 to recognize
- αναγκη anánkē G318 necessity
- αναγνωριζομαι anagnōrízomai G319 to recognize
- αναγω anágō G321 to lead up
- αναδεικνυμι anadeíknymi G322 to proclaim
- αναδεχομαι anadéchomai G324 to take up
- αναδιδωμι anadídōmi G325 to give forth
- αναζαω anazáō G326 to live again
- αναζητεω anazētéō G327 to search out
- αναζωννυμι anazṓnnymi G328 to gird up
- αναζωπυρεω anazōpyréō G329 to inflame
- αναθαλλω anathállō G330 to sprout up
- αναθεωρεω anatheōréō G333 to observe
- αναιρεω anairéō G337 to take away
- ανακαθιζω anakathízō G339 to sit up
- ανακαινιζω anakainízō G340 to renew
- ανακαινοω anakainóō G341 to make new
+51 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 77 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αναπληροω appears 12 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 6 books.
- 12
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:21 ἀναπληρόω
- Exodus 7:25 ἀναπληρόω
- Leviticus 12:6 ἀναπληρόω
- 1 Kings 7:37 ἀναπληρόω
- Esther 1:5 ἀναπληρόω
- Isaiah 60:20 ἀναπληρόω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G378) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:21 ἀναπληρόω Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Genesis 15:16 ἀναπληρόω In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
- Genesis 29:28 ἀναπληρόω Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.
- Exodus 7:25 ἀναπληρόω Seven days were fulfilled, after Yahweh had struck the river.
- Exodus 23:26 ἀναπληρόω No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
- Leviticus 12:6 ἀναπληρόω "'When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:
- 1 Kings 7:37 ἀναπληρόω After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
- Esther 1:5 ἀναπληρόω When these days were fulfilled, the king made a feast to all the people who were present in Shushan the palace, both great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.
- Esther 2:12 ἀναπληρόω Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after it had been done to her as prescribed for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, [to wit], six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with the things for the purifying of the women),
- Esther 2:15 ἀναπληρόω Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
- Isaiah 60:20 ἀναπληρόω Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G378) 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.
