πλήρωμα
fullness
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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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 9 times (53%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 3 times (18%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 2 times (12%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 2 times (12%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (6%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 17 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4138 appears — 17 distinct verses across 8 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 2:21 πλήρωμα n acc sg neut No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
- Mark 6:43 πληρώματα n acc pl neut They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish.
- Mark 8:20 πληρώματα n acc pl neut "When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?" They told him, "Seven."
John 1 verse
Romans 4 verses
- Romans 11:12 πλήρωμα n nom sg neut Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
- Romans 11:25 πλήρωμα n nom sg neut For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
- Romans 13:10 πλήρωμα n nom sg neut Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
- Romans 15:29 πληρώματι n dat sg neut I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
Ephesians 4 verses
- Ephesians 1:10 πληρώματος n gen sg neut to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
- Ephesians 1:23 πλήρωμα n nom sg neut which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
- Ephesians 3:19 πλήρωμα n acc sg neut and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
- Ephesians 4:13 πληρώματος n gen sg neut until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
Colossians 2 verses
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.
πληρωμα (plḗrōma) is a Greek noun most often rendered “fullness.” Its English rendering has broadened — “fulness” classically, “fullness” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 17 verses in 8 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. It first appears in Matthew 9:16. Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4138 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 →
- 17
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 17 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #697
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 697 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 17 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 17 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 12 verses · 71%
- Gospels 5 verses · 29%
- Johannine 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: Fulness 13×
- American Standard Version: Fulness 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fullness 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fullness 12×, Fillings 2×, Patch 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4138 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4138 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4138 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4138 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 4 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.
- that which is (has been) filled
- that which fills or with which a thing is filled
- fulness, abundance
- a fulfilling, keeping
Word origin
Derived from πληροω (plēróō) (G4137) — to fulfill.
From G4137 ; repletion or completion that is (subjectively) what fills (as contents supplement copiousness multitude) or (objectively) what is filled (as container performance period): - which is put in to fill up piece that filled up fulfilling full fulness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G4138 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πλήρωμα plḗrōma | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 9:16 | 11 |
| πληρώματος plērṓmatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | John 1:16 | 3 |
| πληρώματα plērṓmata | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Mark 6:43 | 2 |
| πληρώματι plērṓmati | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Romans 15:29 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πληρωμα appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 13 verses in 6 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 13
- 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
- 1 Chronicles 16:32 πλήρωμα
- Psalms 23:1 πλήρωμα
- Ecclesiastes 4:6 πλήρωμα
- Song of Solomon 5:12 πλήρωμα
- Jeremiah 8:16 πλήρωμα
- Ezekiel 12:19 πλήρωμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4138) 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.
- 1 Chronicles 16:32 πλήρωμα Let the sea roar, and the fullness of it; Let the field exult, and all that is therein;
- Psalms 23:1 πλήρωμα Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
- Psalms 49:12 πλήρωμα But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.
- Psalms 88:12 πλήρωμα Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- Psalms 95:11 πλήρωμα Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."
- Psalms 97:7 πλήρωμα Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, Who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
- Ecclesiastes 4:6 πλήρωμα Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
- Song of Solomon 5:12 πλήρωμα His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, Washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
- Jeremiah 8:16 πλήρωμα The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.
- Jeremiah 29:2 πλήρωμα (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the eunuchs, [and] the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem),
- Ezekiel 12:19 πλήρωμα and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
- Ezekiel 19:7 πλήρωμα He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, because of the noise of his roaring.
- Ezekiel 30:12 πλήρωμα I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4138) 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.
