noun · feminine
teleiōsias
Strong’sG5050
completion, fulfillment, perfection
stem teleiōsi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.
τελείωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< τελειόω), [in LXX chiefly for מִלֻּא, Ex 29:22, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5050 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtel-i'-o-sis
(the act) completion, i.e. (of prophecy) verification, or (of expiation) absolution
Fromfrom G5448;
King Jamesperfection, performance.
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
or τελέωσις, εως, ἡ, development, completion, of physical growth, λαμβάνει τελέωσιν τὰ ᾠά Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ τῶν καρπῶν τ. Refs 4th c.BC+; ἕως τελειώσεως to saturation-point, Refs 4th c.BC+; of a building, Refs 4th c.BC+; of a statue, Refs 4th c.BC+
b execution of a legal instrument by completing it, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 in Logic, ἡ τ. τῶν συλλογισμῶν Refs 4th c.BC+
II attainment of manhood, Refs
II.b marriage, LXX
II of events, accomplishment, fulfilment, LXX+NT
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.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | teleiōsias2×τελείωσις | teleiōsiais |
| object accusative | teleiōsian | teleiōsiain |
| direct address vocative | teleiōsiar | teleiōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | teleiōsiau | teleiōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | teleiōsia | teleiōsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
teleiōsia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
teleiōsias“perfection”subjectnominative singular2×
Luke 1:45“fulfillment”kai makarias tas pisteuarantas hoti eti teleiōsias tei lalorēntei auta para kuriou.Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord’s word to her will be fulfilled.”
Hebrews 7:11Ei men oun teleiōsias dia tau Levitikau hierōsunau ate, tos …Now if perfection could have been attained through the …