τελειόω (in secular authors also
τελεόω, which
Herodotus uses everywhere (and which is
the prevailing form in Attic prose (Liddell and Scott)); other writers use both forms indifferently),
τελείω: 1 aorist
ετελείωσα; perfect
τετελείωκα; passive (or middle), present
τελειοῦμαι; perfect
τετελείωμαι; 1 aorist
ἐτελειωθην; (
τέλειος); from
Herodotus,
Sophocles,
Thucydides, and
Plato down; equivalent to
τέλειον ποιῶ,
to make perfect or complete;
1. to carry through completely; to accomplish, finish, bring to an end:
τόν,
Acts 20:24;
τό ἔργον,
John 4:34;
John 5:36;
John 17:4,(
Nehemiah 6:16;
τόν οἶκον,
2 Chronicles 8:16);
τάς ἡμέρας,
Luke 2:43; middle (present cf.
Buttmann, 38 (33))
τελειοῦμαι,
I finish complete, what was given me to do, Luke 13:32 (some (so
A. V.) take it here as passive,
I am perfected (understanding it of his death; cf. Ellicott, Life of our Lord, Lect. vi., p. 242 n{1};
Keim, ii., 615 n^1)).
2. to complete (perfect), i. e. add what is yet lacking in order to render a thing full:
τήν ἀγάπην, passive,
1 John 2:5;
1 John 4:12,
17;
ἡ δύναμις μου ἐν ἀσθένεια τελειοῦται, my power shows itself most efficacious in them that are weak,
2 Corinthians 12:9 R G;
ἐκ τῶν ἔργων ἡ πίστις ἐτελειώθη, by works faith was perfected, made such as it ought to be,
James 2:22;
τετελείωται τίς ἐν τῇ ἀγάπη, one has been made perfect in love, his love lacks nothing,
1 John 4:18 (
οἱ τελειωθεντες ἐν ἀγάπη,
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 50, 3 [ET]; (
τελειῶσαι τήν ἐκκλησίαν σου ἐν τῇ ἀγάπη σου, '
Teaching' etc. 10, 5 [ET]));
ἵνα ὠσί τετελειωμένοι εἰς ἕν,
that they may be perfected into one, i. e. perfectly united,
John 17:23.
τινα,
to bring one's character to perfection:
ἤδη τετελείωμαι, I am already made perfect,
Philippians 3:12 (Wis. 4:13;
ὦ ψυχή...
ὅταν τελειωθης καί βραβειων καί στεφάνων ἀξιωθης,
Philo de legg. alleg. 3, 23;
ψυχή...
τελειωθεισα ἐν ἀρετῶν ἀθλοις καί ἐπί τόν ὅρον ἐφικομενη τοῦ καλοῦ, id. de somn. 1, 21; equivalent to
to be footpad perfect, Sir. 34:10 (Sir. 31:10).
3. to bring to the end (goal) proposed:
οὐδέν,
Hebrews 7:19;
τινα, (
to perfect or consummate) i. e.
to raise to the state befitting him: so of God exalting Jesus to the state of heavenly majesty,
Hebrews 2:10; in the passive,
Hebrews 5:9;
Hebrews 7:28;
to raise to the state of heavenly blessedness those who put their faith in the expiatory death of Christ, passive,
Hebrews 11:40;
Hebrews 12:23 ((
Act. Petr. et Paul. § 88,
Tdf. edition, p. 39; Act. Barnab. § 9, id., p. 68; cf. '
Teaching' etc. 16, 2 [ET]); with
μαρτυρίῳ added, of the death of the apost. Paul,
Eusebius,
h. e. 2, 22, 2 (cf. Heinichen's note on 7, 15, 5)); to make one, meet for future entrance on this state and give him a sure hope of it even here on earth,
Hebrews 10:1,
14;
τινα κατά συνείδησιν,
Hebrews 9:9; cf. Bleek, Brief an d.
Hebrews 2:1, p. 297ff; C. R. Köstlin, Lehrbegriff des Evang. u. der Briefe Johannis (Berl. 1843), p. 421ff;
Riehm, Lehrbegriff des Hebrew-Br., § 42, p. 340ff; Pfleiderer, Paulinismus, p. 344f. (English translation, ii, p. 72ff).
4. to accomplish, i. e. bring to a close or fulfilment by event:
τήν γραφήν, the prophecies of Scripture, passive,
John 19:28 (cf.
Winers Grammar, 459 (428);
Buttmann, § 151, 20).
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