Strong's Greek Concordance

G4138: πλήρωμα

plḗrōma · “fulfillment”

Definition

repletion or completion, i.e. (subjectively) what fills (as contents, supplement, copiousness, multitude), or (objectively) what is filled (as container, performance, period)

KJV translates it as: which is put in to fill up, piece that filled up, fulfilling, full, fulness

Word origin: from G4137 (πληρόω);

Extended definition

πλήρωμα, -τος, τό
(πληρόω), [in LXX for מְלֹא ;]
the result of the action involved in πληρόω (Lft., Col., 255 if.; AR, Eph., 255 ff.), hence,
1. in passive sense, that which has been completed, complement, plenitude, fullness (in Xen., Luc., Polyb., al., of a ship's crew or cargo, and by meton. of the ship itself) : Jhn.1:16, Rom.11:12, 25 15:29, 1Co.10:26" (LXX) Eph.1:23 (AR, 42 ff.) Eph.3:19 (AR. 87 ff.) Eph.4:13, Col.1:19 2:9; of time, Gal.4:4, Eph.1:10; κοφίνων (σφυρίδων) πληρώματα, basketfuls, Mrk.6:43 8:20.
2. In active sense (= πλήρωσις, as frequently in words of these formations, cf. κτίσις, and see MM, xx);
(a) that which fills up (but see Lft., l.with) : Mat.9:16, Mrk.2:21;
(b) a filling up, completing, fulfilment: Rom.13:10.†
(AS)

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How G4138 is translated

  • fullness ×13
  • patch ×2
  • the fillings ×1
  • the fulfillment ×1
  • the fullness ×1

Bible verses with G4138 (plḗrōma)

Plḗrōma appears in 18 verses.

  • Matthew 9:16

    No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

  • Mark 2:21

    No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

  • Mark 6:43

    And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.

  • Mark 8:20

    And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

  • John 1:16

    And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

  • Romans 11:12

    Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

  • Romans 11:25

    For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

  • Romans 13:10

    Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

  • Romans 15:29

    And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:26

    For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:28

    But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:

  • Galatians 4:4

    But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

  • Ephesians 1:10

    That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

  • Ephesians 1:23

    Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

  • Ephesians 3:19

    And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

  • Ephesians 4:13

    Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

  • Colossians 1:19

    For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;

  • Colossians 2:9

    For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.