verb

Greekἐκπληρόω (ekplēroō)

Biblang

ekplēramō

Strong’sG1603

I fill completely, fulfill in every particular

stem ekplēr-once in the New Testament1 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** ἐκ-πληρόω

[in LXX: II Mac 8:10, III Mac 1:2, 22 *;]

1. to fill full, make up a number.

2. to fulfil (MM, Exp., xii; Cremer, 839), Ac 13:32.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1603 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidek-play-ro'-o

to accomplish entirely

Fromfrom G1537 and G4137;

King Jamesfulfill.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἐκπληρ-όω,
fill up, ἑκατὸν ἐχίδναις ἀσπίδ᾽ ἐ. Refs 5th c.BC+
2 make up to a certain number, ἐκπληροῦσι τὰς ἴσας μυριάδας ἐκείνοισι Refs 5th c.BC+; δέκατον ἐκπληρῶν ὄχον making up the number of ten chariots, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 man completely, τριήρεις Refs 4th c.BC+
4 fulfil, ἡ χάρις ἐκπεπλήρωται NT+5th c.BC+
5 pay off, τὸ χρέος Refs 5th c.BC+
II ἐ. λιμένα πλάτῃ make one's way over, Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

fulfilled1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.

Form and the Greek behind it	What it is	Usually	Times
ekplēratēἐκπεπλήρωκεν	has happened · he/she/itperfect active indicative 3rd person singular	fulfilled	1×

Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.

Every form the system can build — all 86, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses

Statements — indicative mood, 1 occurrence

Who person	happening now present	was happening imperfect	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect	had happened pluperfect
I 1st person singular	ekplēramō	ekplērame	ekplērami	ekplērama	ekplēramē	ekplēramelē
you 2nd person singular	ekplērasō	ekplērase	ekplērasi	ekplērasa	ekplērasē	ekplēraselē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	ekplēratō	ekplērate	ekplērati	ekplērata	ekplēratē1×ἐκπεπλήρωκεν	ekplēratelē
we 1st person plural	ekplēranō	ekplērane	ekplērani	ekplērana	ekplēranē	ekplēranelē
ye 2nd person plural	ekplēravō	ekplērave	ekplēravi	ekplērava	ekplēravē	ekplēravelē
they 3rd person plural	ekplēralō	ekplērale	ekplērali	ekplērala	ekplēralē	ekplēralelē

May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist	has happened perfect
I 1st person singular	ekplērameiō	ekplērameia	ekplērameiē
you 2nd person singular	ekplēraseiō	ekplēraseia	ekplēraseiē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	ekplērateiō	ekplērateia	ekplērateiē
we 1st person plural	ekplēraneiō	ekplēraneia	ekplēraneiē
ye 2nd person plural	ekplēraveiō	ekplēraveia	ekplēraveiē
they 3rd person plural	ekplēraleiō	ekplēraleia	ekplēraleiē

Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist	has happened perfect
you 2nd person singular	ekplērasōr	ekplērasar	ekplērasēr
he/she/it 3rd person singular	ekplēratōr	ekplēratar	ekplēratēr
ye 2nd person plural	ekplēravōr	ekplēravar	ekplēravēr
they 3rd person plural	ekplēralōr	ekplēralar	ekplēralēr

Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist
I 1st person singular	ekplēramoiō	ekplēramoia
you 2nd person singular	ekplērasoiō	ekplērasoia
he/she/it 3rd person singular	ekplēratoiō	ekplēratoia
we 1st person plural	ekplēranoiō	ekplēranoia
ye 2nd person plural	ekplēravoiō	ekplēravoia
they 3rd person plural	ekplēraloiō	ekplēraloia

The “to …” form — infinitive, no occurrences

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
the subject acts active voice	ekplērarō	ekplērari	ekplērara	ekplērarē

Used as an adjective — participle, no occurrences

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
the subject acts active voice	ekplērarōntos	ekplērarintos	ekplērarantos	ekplērarēntos

Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.

How every form is built — the slots that make them

ekplērstem+aoeiwho is acting voice+mstnvl—who person+—eiroistatement, command, wish mood+ōeiaēelēwhen tense+—ntthen it declines+—ogender+—sits job in the sentence case

ekplēr is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ekplēratē“fulfilled”has happened · he/she/itperfect active indicative 3rd person singular1×

Acts 13:33hoti houtan tos theos ekplēratē tei teknei nu anastēarantos Iēsun, hōs …He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising …