Quick Definition
πληροφορία, ας, ἡ n.f. full assurance
Strong's Definition
from 4135; entire confidence
KJV Usage: (full) assurance
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | πληρόω + φέρω
31.45 · Hold a View, Believe, Trust · Believe To Be True
to be absolutely sure, to be certain, complete certainty to be completely certain of the truth of something The phrase ‘with complete certainty’ may be expressed in some languages as ‘you may surely believe it’ or ‘there is no reason at all for you to doubt.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πληροφορία, -as, ἡ, (πληροφορέω, q. v.), fulness, abundance: πίστεως, Heb. x. 22; τῆς ἐλπίδος, Heb. vi. 11; τῆς συνέσεως, Col. ii. 2; full assurance, most certain confidence, (see πληροφορέω, ο. [al. give it the same meaning in one or other of the preceding pass. also; ef. Bp. Lghtft. on Col.1.¢.]),1 Th.i.5. (Not found elsewh. exe. in ecel. writ. [ef. W. 25].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πληροφορία plērophoria 4x
full conviction, firm persuasion, assurance, 1 Thess. 1:5; Col. 2:2
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† πληροφορία, -ας, ἡ
(< πληροφορέω),
full assurance, confidence: I Th 1:5; τ. συνέσεως, Col 2:2; τ. ἐλπίδος, He 6:11; πίστεως, He 10:22 (cf. Lft. on Col 2:2; M, Th., 9).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πληροφορία (A.D. 289) ἅπερ ἐντεῦθεν ἀπέσίχ]αμεν παρὰ σοῦ πλήρης, 12. IT. 37374 (A.D. 298) ἔσχον τὴν τιμὴν πλήρης ὡς πρόκιται, and Ostr 1071? (A.D. 185) ἔσχίομεν) τὸ τέλ(ος) πλήρης ἀπὸ ᾿Αθὺρ ἕως Mexelp κβ. As regards the LXX Thackeray (Gr. i. Ρ- 176f.) thinks that the evidence for indeclinable πλήρης ‘is not asa rule so strong as to warrant our attributing the form to the autographs: in most cases it is certainly due to later scribes.” The clearest exx.. he thinks, are Job 2124, Sir 1928, Other exx. of the adj. are P Ryl II. 145!7 (a.p. 38) σάκκο(ν) πλήρηι κνήκωι (/. κνήκου), and P Oxy III. 530° (11/A.D.) τὸ δὲ] ναύβιον καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάντα πλήρη διέγραψα, ““but the naubion and the other taxes I have paid in full” ; and for the phrase ἐκ πλήρους see P Par 2648 (B.c. 163-2) (= Selections, p. 14) οὐ κεκομισμέναι ἐκκ πλήρους, P Lond 117843 (a.p. 194) (= III. p. 217, Selections Pp. 100) ἀποδεδωκότα τὸ κατὰ τὸν νόμ[ον ἐν]τάγιον πᾶν ἐκ πλήρους δηνάρια ἑκατόν, ‘on his payment of the legal fee amounting altogether to a hundred denarii.” For the superl. see P Lond 779 (end of vi/a.p.) (=I. p. 232f., Chrest. 11. p- 570 f.) BeBata [π]ίστει παντὶ πληρεστάτῳ δεσποτείᾳ : οἵ. 39,
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πληροφορία (plērophoria) — assurance. πληροφορ-ία, ἡ, fullness of assurance, certainty, [NT]
II. assurance given, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
