πληροφορέω
to make full
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
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 1 time (17%)
- Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4135 appears — 6 distinct verses across 4 books. 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.
Luke 1 verse
Romans 2 verses
Colossians 1 verse
2 Timothy 2 verses
- 2 Timothy 4:5 πληροφόρησον aor act impv 2sg But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
- 2 Timothy 4:17 πληροφορηθῇ aor pass subj 3sg But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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.
πληροφορεω — transliterated plērophoréō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to make full.” Its earliest occurrence is Luke 1:1. It appears 6 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Romans. It shares a root with πληρης, πληροω and πληροφορια. See the sense tree, 6-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4135 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.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 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 →
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%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 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: Alike let 1×, Are most surely believed 1×, Be fully persuaded 1×
- American Standard Version: Alike 1×, Be fully assured 1×, Being fully assured 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Being fully persuaded that 1×, Fulfill 1×, Fully assured 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Be fully convinced 1×, Fulfill 1×, Fully assured 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4135 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4135 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4135 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4135 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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 bear or bring full, to make full
Word origin
Derived from πληρης (plḗrēs) (G4134) — full.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G4135 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πεπληροφορημένοι peplērophorēménoi | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Colossians 4:12 | 1 |
| πεπληροφορημένων peplērophorēménōn | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Luke 1:1 | 1 |
| πληροφορείσθω plērophoreísthō | Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 14:5 | 1 |
| πληροφορηθεὶς plērophorētheìs | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 4:21 | 1 |
| πληροφορηθῇ plērophorēthē̂ | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | 2 Timothy 4:17 | 1 |
| πληροφόρησον plērophórēson | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | 2 Timothy 4:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4135, 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 → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πληροφορεω appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ecclesiastes 8:11 πληροφορέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4135) 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.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4135) 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.
