Word Summary
holoklēros: complete, entire
Original Word: ὁλόκληροςTransliteration: holoklēros
Phonetic Spelling: (hol'-ok'-lay-ros)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: complete, entire
Meaning: complete, entire
Strong's Concordance
entire, whole.
From holos and kleros; complete in every part, i.e. Perfectly sound (in body) -- entire, whole.
see GREEK holos
see GREEK kleros
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3648: ὁλόκληροςὁλόκληρος,
ὁλόκληρον (
ὅλος and
κλῆρος, properly, all that has fallen by lot),
complete in all its parts, in no part lacking or unsound, complete, entire, whole:
λίθοι, untouched by a tool,
Deuteronomy 27:6;
Joshua 20:4 (viii. 31) 1 Macc. 4:47; of a body without blemish or defect, whether of a priest or of a victim,
Philo de vici. § 12;
Josephus, Antiquities 3, 12, 2 ((cf. Havercamp's
Josephus, ii., p. 321)). Ethically,
free from sin, faultless (
R. V. entire):
1 Thessalonians 5:23; plural, connected with
τέλειοι and with the addition of
ἐν μηδενί λειπόμενοι,
James 1:4;
complete in all respects, consummate, δικαιοσύνη, Wis. 15:3;
εὐσέβεια, 4 Macc. 15:17. (
Plato,
Polybius, Lcian,
Epictetus, others; the
Sept. for
שָׁלֵם,
Deuteronomy 27:6;
תָּמִים,
Leviticus 23:15;
Ezekiel 15:5.)
[SYNONYMS: ὁλόκληρος, τέλειος (cf. Trench, § xxii.): 'in the ὁλόκληρος no grace which ought to be in a Christian man is deficient; in the τέλειος no grace is merely in its weak imperfect beginnings, but all have reached a certain ripeness and maturity.']