Quick Definition
πλήρωμα, ατος, τό n.n. fullness, fulfillment, completion
Strong's Definition
from 4137; repletion or completion, i.e. (subjectively) what fills (as contents, supplement, copiousness, multitude), or (objectively) what is filled (as container, performance, period)
KJV Usage: which is put in to fill up, piece that filled up, fulfilling, full, fulness
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -τος | πληρόω
59.36 · Quantity · Full, Empty
that which fills, contents a quantity which fills a space
59.32 · Quantity · All, Any, Each, Every [Totality]
full number, full measure, fullness, completeness, totality a total quantity, with emphasis upon completeness In a number of languages it may be difficult to use a generic expression such as ‘totality.’ As a result, this clause in COL 2:9 must often be completely restructured, for example, ‘for Christ is completely like God’ or ‘for just what God is, that is exactly what Christ is.’
JHN 1:16 · ROM 11:12 · ROM 11:25 · ROM 13:10 · ROM 15:29 · EPH 1:23 · EPH 3:19 · EPH 4:13 · COL 1:19 · COL 2:9
1 In a number of contexts it is difficult to determine whether the meanings in 67.69 and 67.70 are primarily temporal or aspectual. If the meaning in any one context seems to focus upon the completion of an activity, then the meaning should be classified as aspectual (Domain 68 Aspect), but if the emphasis would seem to be primarily upon the end point of an activity, then one may legitimately classify these meanings as being temporal.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πλήρωμα, -τος, τό, (πληρόω), Sept. for πο; 1. etymologically it has a passive sense, that which is (or has been) filled; very rarely so in class. Grk.: a ship, inasmuch as it is filled (i. e. manned) with sailors, rowers, and soldiers ; ἀπὸ δύο πληρωμάτων ἐμάχοντο, Lcian. ver. hist. 2, 37; πέντε εἶχον πληρώματα, ibid. 38. Inthe N. T. the body of believers, as that which is filled with the presence, power, agency, riches of God and of Christ: τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Eph. iv. 13 (see ἡλικία, 1 ο. [ef. W. § 30, 8 N.1; B. 155 (136) ]); i. 23; εἰς πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ θεοῦ, that ye may become a body wholly filled and flooded by God, Eph. iii. 19 [but WH mrg. reads πληρωθῇ πᾶν τὸ mA. |. 2. that which fills or with which a thing is jilled: so very frequently in class. Grk. fr. Hdt. down; esp. of those things with which ships are filled, freight and merchandise, sailors, oarsmen, soldiers, [ef. our ‘complement’ (yet cf. Bp. Lghtft. as below p. 258 sq.) ], (of the animals filling Noah’s ark, Philo de vit. Moys. ii. 812); πλήρωμα πόλεως, the inhabitants or population filling a city, Plat. de rep. 2 p. 371 e.; Aristot. polit. 3, 13 p- 1284", 5; 4,4 p.1291*,17; al. So inthe N. T. ἡ γῆ καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς, whatever fills the earth or is contained in it, 1 Co. x. 26, 28 Ree. (Ps. xxiii. (xxiv.) 1; xlix. (I.) 12; Jer. viii. 16; Ezek. xii. 19, ete.; τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θαλάσσης, Ps. xev. (xevi.) 11; 1 Chr. xvi. 32); κοφίνων πληρώpara, those things with which the baskets were filled, (basketfuls], Mk. vi. 43 T Tr WH [on this pass. ef. Bp. Lehtft. as below p. 260]; also σπυρίδων πληρώματα, Mk. viii. 20; the filling (Lat. complementum) by which a gap is filled up, Mt. ix. 16; Mk. ii. 21; that by which a loss is repaired, spoken of the reception of all the Jews into the kingdom of God (see ἥττημα, 1), Ro. xi. 12. Of time (see πληρόω, 2 b. a.), that portion of time by which a longer antecedent period is completed; hence completeness, fulness, of time: τοῦ χρόνου, Gal. iv. 4; τῶν καιρῶν, Eph. i. 10 (on which see οἰκονομία). 3. fulness, abundance: Jn. i. 163 Col. i. 193 11. 9; full number, Ro. Xi. 25. 4. i. gq. πλήρωσις (see καύχημα, 2), i. 6. a fulfilling, keeping : τοῦ νόμου (see πληρόω, 2 6. a.), Ro. xiii. 10. For a full discussion of this word see Fritzsche, Ep. ad Rom. ii. p. 469 sqq-; [esp. Bp. Lghtft. Com. on Col. p- 257 sqq. ].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πλήρωμα plērōma 17x
that which fills up; full measure, entire content, Mk. 8:20; 1 Cor. 10:26, 28; complement, full extent, full number, Gal. 4:4; Eph. 1:10; that which fills up a deficiency, a supplement, a patch, Mt. 9:16; fulness, abundance, Jn. 1:16; full measure, Rom. 15:29; a fulfilling, perfect performance, Rom. 13:10; complete attainment of entire belief, full acceptance, Rom. 11:12; full development, plenitude, Eph. 4:13; Col. 1:19; 2:9
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πλήρωμα, -τος, τό
(< πληρόω), [in LXX for מְלֹא;]
the result of the action involved in πληρόω (Lft., Col., 255 ff.; AR, Eph., 255 ff.), hence, 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): Jo 1:16, Ro 11:12, 25 15:29, I Co 10:26(LXX), Eph 1:23 (AR, 42 ff.) 3:19 (AR. 87 ff.) 4:13, Col 1:19 2:9; of time, Ga 4:4, Eph 1:10; κοφίνων (σφυρίδων) πληρώματα, basketfuls, Mk 6:43 8:20.
In active sense (= πλήρωσις, as freq. in words of these formations, cf. κτίσις, and v. MM, xx); that which fills up (but v. Lft., Col., 255 ff.): Mt 9:16, Mk 2:21;
a filling up, completing, fulfilment: Ro 13:10.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πλήρωμα. This important word is not very common in the vernacular, but it can be illustrated in the sense of a full ‘* company ” or “‘complement.” From Egypt we have P Petr III. 43(3)}2 (B.C. 240) ἔγραψάς μοι μὴ ἀποσπάσαι τὸ πίλή]ρωμα ἐκ Φιλωτέριδος ἕως οὗ τὰ ἔργα συντελέσαι, “ you wrote me not to withdraw the gang from Philoteris before they had finished the work ’’ (Ed.), cf.1529, and an inscr. from near Sebastopol Syll 326 (= % 709)*° (c. B.C. 107) παραλαβὼν δὲ Kal τῶν πολιτᾶν ἐπιλέκτους ἐμ πληρώμασι τρισί (‘‘in three shiploads); InP BibT. 110% (5 Β: Ὁ: 255) (Ξ- Οζζειξ. Te Ῥ. 574) ἀπ[ὸ τοῦ] πληρώματος, Wilcken thinks the reference is to “‘ the ship’s crew”: cf. Rom 117°, See also P Par 60 Bis? (c. B.C, 200) τὸ ἀνήλωμα eis ᾿Αλεξάνδρειαν ἀπὸ τῶν πληρωμάτων [ἀρ]χαίων. The very common word πλήρωσις does not occur in the NT, but its restriction to commercial phraseology accounts for this: cf. Ostr 4647 (A.D. 85-6), P Lips I. 105%? (i/1i A.D.), and P Strass I. 105,12 (A.D. 105). That πλήρωμα should take its place as a omen actionzs (as in Rom 1319) is not strange, as the -ots and —pa nouns are drawing together a good deal: the shortened penultimate of θέμα, κρίμα, χρίσμα etc., due to the analogy of the --σις words, illustrates the closeness of association. As against the so-called pass. sense of πλήρωμα for which Lightfoot contends (Co/.? p. 257 ff.), see the elaborate note by Armitage Robinson in £//. p. 255 ff. Cf. also the art. “*Pleroma”’ by W. Lock in Hastings D8 iv. p. 1f., and for illustrations of the word from Hermetic literature see Reitzenstein Potmandres p. 25 ἢ.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πλήρωμα (plērōma) — fulfillment. πλήρ-ωμα, ατος, τό, that which fills, complement, κρατήρων πληρώματα, i.e. wine, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χθονὸς π., i.e. men, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ π. τῆς γαστρός [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of excrement, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
2. δαιτὸς π. satiety of the feast, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τυρῶν their fill of cheese, [Refs]
3. of ships, full number, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but, of single ships, complement, crew, in plural, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ὑπηρεσία (which see), [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἐπίλεκτον [Refs 2nd c.BC+] make up the full number of citizens, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; gang of workmen, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
4. of number, sum, ὀγδώκοντα ἔτεα ζόης π. μακρότατον προκεῖσθαι [Refs] years are fixed as life's longest sum, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; sum, total, τὸ π. τῶν ἀγαθῶν [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
5. piece inserted to fill up, [NT+2nd c.AD+]
6. fullness, full and perfect nature, [NT]; τὸ π. τοῦ θεοῦ, τοῦ Χριστοῦ, [NT]; later τὰ π. τῶν θεῶν [Refs 4th c.AD+]; the aggregate of properties which constitute the complete nature of a thing, full specification, substance, [Refs 5th c.AD+]; πᾶς νοῦς, π. ὢν εἰδῶν [Refs 5th c.AD+]
7. reserves of troops, στρατιῶν [Refs 6th c.AD+]
8. mass, complex, ὁ κόσμος π. ἐστι κακίας, ζωῆς, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
9. duties of an office, [Refs 6th c.AD+]; completion of a term of office (compare 11), [Refs]
10. freight, cargo, νεώς [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. filling up, completing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ζηνὸς ἔχεις κυλίκων π. hast the task of filling.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. fulfilment, νόμου [NT]