noun · feminine
teleiotas
Strong’sG5047
perfectness, perfection
stem teleiot-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
τελειότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< τέλειος), [in LXX: Jg 9:16, 19 (תָּמִים), Pr 11:3 (תֻּמָּה), Wi 6:15 12:17, Je 2:2 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5047 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtel-i-ot'-ace
(the state) completeness (mentally or morally)
Fromfrom G5046;
King Jamesperfection(-ness).
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
completeness, perfection, LXX+5th c.BC+; ψυχῆς τελεότης Refs 3rd 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.
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 | teleiotas | teleiotais |
| object accusative | teleiotan1×τελειότητα | teleiotain |
| direct address vocative | teleiotar | teleiotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | teleiotau1×τελειότητος | teleiotaiu |
| to, for dative | teleiota | teleiotai |
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
teleiota 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
teleiotan“maturity”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 6:1… archau tou Christou logon epi tan teleiotan feroneiō, mē palin themelion katabalorōntois metanoiau …… about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of …
teleiotau“perfect”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Colossians 3:14… tan agapan, hem atō sundesmos tau teleiotau.… love, which is the bond of perfect unity.