Word Summary
plēthō: furnish, accomplish, fill, supply
Original Word: πλήθωplēthō
Phonetic Spelling: (play'-tho)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: furnish, accomplish, fill, supply
Meaning: furnish, accomplish, fill, supply
Strong's Concordance
furnish, accomplish, fill, supply
A prolonged form of a primary pleo (pleh'-o) (which appears only as an alternate in certain tenses and in the reduplicated form pimplemi) to "fill" (literally or figuratively (imbue, influence, supply)); specially, to fulfil (time) -- accomplish, full (...come), furnish.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4130: πίμπλημιπίμπλημι; (a lengthened form of the theme
ΠΛΑΩ, whence
πλέος,
πλήρης (cf.
Curtius, § 366)): 1 aorist
ἔπλησα; passive, 1 future
πλησθήσομαι; 1 aorist
ἐπλήσθην; from
Homer on; the
Sept. for
מָלֵא, also for
הִשְׂבִּיעַ (to satiate) and passive,
שָׂבַע (to be full);
to fill:
τί,
Luke 5:7;
τί τίνος (
Winer's Grammar, § 30, 8 b.), a thing with something,
Matthew 27:48; (
John 19:29 R G); in the passive,
Matthew 22:10;
Acts 19:29; (
ἐκ τῆς ὀσμῆς,
John 12:3 Tr marginal reading; cf.
Winers Grammar, as above note;
Buttmann, § 132, 12). what wholly takes possession of the mind is said to fill it: passive,
φοβοῦ,
Luke 5:26;
θάμβους,
Acts 3:10;
ἀνοίας,
Luke 6:11;
ζήλου,
Acts 5:17;
Acts 13:45;
θυμοῦ,
Luke 4:28;
Acts 3:10;
πνεύματος ἁγίου,
Luke 1:15, 41, 67;
Acts 2:4;
Acts 4:8, 31;
Acts 9:17;
Acts 13:9. prophecies are said
πλησθῆναι, i. e.
to come to pass, to be confirmed by the event, Luke 21:22 G L T Tr WH (for
Rec. πληρωθῆναι). time is said
πλησθῆναι,
to be fulfilled or completed, i. e.
finished, elapsed, Luke 1:23, 57 (
Winers Grammar, 324 (304);
Buttmann, 267 (230));
f; so נִמְלָא, Job 15:32; and מִלֵּא to (ful-)fill the time, i. e. to complete, fill up, Genesis 29:27; Job 39:2. (Compare: ἐμπίπλημι.) STRONGS NT 4130: πλήθωπλήθω, see πίμπλημι.