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πλήρης

full

‘full’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G4134 Strong's Greek
plḗrēs Transliteration
/play'-race/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 16 appearances

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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.

πληρης (plḗrēs) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “full.” Acts dominates its distribution — 8 of 16 verses. Spanning 16 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 14:20. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
full
Modern gloss
full
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G4134 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 →

16
distinct verses
The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
6 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 14:20
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 14:20.
2 John 1:8
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in 2 John 1:8.
#726
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 726 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 7 · 44%
  • Acts 8 · 50%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 1 · 6%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 16 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 10 verses · 63%
  • Gospels 7 verses · 44%
  • Johannine 2 verses · 13%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 6%

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: Full 16×
  • American Standard Version: Full 14×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Full 8×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Full 15×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4134 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Full” 16×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4134 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Full” 14×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4134 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Full” 8×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4134 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Full” 15×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


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.

  1. full, i.e. filled up (as opposed to empty)
  2. full, i.e. complete

Word origin

Derived from πληθω (plḗthō) (G4130) — to fill.

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 10:43,9

From G4130 ; replete or covered over; by analogy complete : - full.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 3 distinct written forms G4134 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
πλήρης plḗrēs Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Mark 4:28 9
πλήρεις plḗreis Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 14:20 5
πλήρη plḗrē Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Acts 6:5 2

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4134, 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

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word πληρης appears 104 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 102 verses in 24 books.

104
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
102
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
24 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4134) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 102. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4134) 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.

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