πλησμονή
satiety
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4140 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Colossians 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.
πλησμονη (plēsmonḗ) is a Greek noun most often rendered “satiety.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Colossians dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Colossians 2:23. Sharing its root, it stands alongside πληθω, πληθος and πλημμυρα. 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 G4140 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Colossians 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
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: Satisfying 1×
- American Standard Version: Indulgence 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Indulgence 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Indulgence 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4140 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4140 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4140 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4140 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- repletion, satiety, for the satisfying of the flesh, to satiate the desires of the flesh
Word origin
Derived from πληθω (plḗthō) (G4130) — to fill.
From a presumed derivative of G4130 ; a filling up that is (figuratively) gratification : - satisfying.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4140, 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
- πληθος plēthos G4128 multitude
- πλημμυρα plḗmmyra G4132 flood
- πληρης plḗrēs G4134 full
- πλουτος ploûtos G4149 riches
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πλησμονη appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 23 verses in 13 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 23
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 41:30 πλησμονή
- Exodus 16:3 πλησμονή
- Leviticus 25:19 πλησμονή
- Deuteronomy 33:23 πλησμονή
- Psalms 77:25 πλησμονή
- Proverbs 3:10 πλησμονή
- Isaiah 1:14 πλησμονή
- Jeremiah 14:22 πλησμονή
- Lamentations 5:6 πλησμονή
- Ezekiel 16:49 πλησμονή
- Hosea 13:6 πλησμονή
- Habakkuk 2:16 πλησμονή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4140) 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 41:30 πλησμονή There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
- Exodus 16:3 πλησμονή and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
- Exodus 16:8 πλησμονή Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
- Leviticus 25:19 πλησμονή The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
- Leviticus 26:5 πλησμονή Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
- Deuteronomy 33:23 πλησμονή Of Naphtali he said, Naphtali, satisfied with favor, Full with the blessing of Yahweh, Possess you the west and the south.
- Psalms 77:25 πλησμονή
- Psalms 105:15 πλησμονή "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"
- Proverbs 3:10 πλησμονή So your barns will be filled with plenty, And your vats will overflow with new wine.
- Proverbs 26:16 πλησμονή The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.
- Proverbs 27:7 πλησμονή A full soul loathes a honeycomb; But to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
- Isaiah 1:14 πλησμονή My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts; They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
- Isaiah 30:23 πλησμονή He will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures;
- Isaiah 55:2 πλησμονή Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
- Isaiah 56:11 πλησμονή Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
- Isaiah 65:15 πλησμονή You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
- Jeremiah 14:22 πλησμονή Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
- Lamentations 5:6 πλησμονή We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
- Ezekiel 16:49 πλησμονή Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- Ezekiel 39:19 πλησμονή You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
- Hosea 13:6 πλησμονή According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
- Habakkuk 2:16 πλησμονή You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
- Haggai 1:6 πλησμονή You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4140) 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.
